ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the different outcomes found for individuals in each of the career route categories. There is career route, the findings on who benefited from the treatment intervention and, emerging from the predictions on individuals just described, protective factors which mediate a risk. Obviously, there is some overlap with the statistical findings, particularly since the quantitative analysis also confirmed the place treatment interventions and career play in young people’s life trajectories. But the qualitative information works far better with individuals and therefore sits far more comfortably with clinicians, whether they be residential workers or psychologists. It is abundantly clear to many professionals that even the most difficult and disturbed young people are sometimes very resilient. The way in which a young person interacts with the outside world also makes a difference to career outcomes.
