摘要：This paper is focused on presenting and questioning the main aspects of counseling juvenile offenders. Due to the fact that this area of counseling is rarely examined, there is a prevailing professional opinion of a need to define the approach of counseling juvenile offenders and population in risk. This paper presents an overview of the specificities in the process of counseling juvenile offenders, lays out the legal framework of special obligatory inclusion into individual or group psychosocial treatment within the youth counseling service, also content of the intervention and gives an evaluation of the efficacy of such treatment programs. Through the overview of the many approaches and the complexity of the process on its performance level, this paper tends to depict the current diversity in the process of counseling youthful offenders. The framework used in the integration of present knowledge is the Horton method (1996) in which the basic guidelines of the counseling process are laid out: process structures and themes, general principles of change, process of change and mechanisms of change. Lastly, this paper deals with the necessity of creating quality standards in counseling youthful offenders and proposes the areas of standards that might be used as a framework for a scientific debate.
关键词：counseling juvenile offenders; special obligatory inclusion into individual or group psychosocial treatment within the youth counseling service; quality standards
