Juvenile rehabilitation program is to reform their negative behavior. This rehabilitation includes aspects such as self-discipline development, virtue inculcation, skills development, education improvement and positive interaction development with people around them. All these aspects of positive youth development are indicators for the effectiveness of juvenile rehabilitation program. Thus, this article discusses the aspects of positive youth development that need to be achieved among the juvenile residents that undergo rehabilitation program. This study was done based on literature review through articles and books related to positive youth development and the effectiveness of rehabilitation program. This article is beneficial to rehabilitation field, social work and prison field in improving the effectiveness of rehabilitation program.
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