CIRI-CIRI PEMULIHAN TERAPUTIK BERKESAN UNTUK ANAK GADIS HAMIL LUAR NIKAH

Growing cases of unwed pregnancy among teenage girls attracts public attention. Without proper interventions, those teenagers are at-risk for involving with another serious vice behaviours such as baby dumping and baby-homicide. The Children Act of 2001 stipulates the state responsibility to protect those at-risk girls. They will be removed into institutional care, such as the Social Welfare Department’s Approved Schools. At the institution, they will be enrolled in a series of social rehabilitation programmes. The purposes of these programmes are to socialise, to remedy, to inculcate and to restructure their behaviours. The success of the programmes in assisting the girls depends on its components, principles of intervention, strategies, approaches, and activities. This conceptual paper highlights characteristics of effective social rehabilitation programmes for delinquent girls; especially those who were convicted with sexual offenses.