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Li June Han – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2025
When facilitating group art therapy for young adult male inmates in prison, response art helped an art therapist to build therapeutic bonds and maintain self-care. Both artmaking in-session and post-session enabled the art therapist to traverse relational distance, nurture trust, and create social bonds in the group. By reflecting on her response…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Group Therapy, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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Eileen McGivney; Tessa Forshaw; Rodrigo Medeiros; Mingyue Sun; Tina Grotzer – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Virtual reality (VR) technologies have been shown to impact the affective and motivational dimensions of learning, for example increasing learners' enjoyment, confidence, and self-efficacy beliefs. While VR is increasingly being used for workforce development, research on these dimensions of learning in authentic workforce development contexts…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Job Applicants, Employment Interviews, Psychological Patterns
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Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan; Eniko Szabo; Christian Rominger; Andreas Fink; Laura Opris; Nora Pataky – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2024
Criminals allegedly use effective novelty to intentionally exploit and harm others (creative fraud, theft, and murder). However, empirical evidence that criminals possess higher malevolent creativity than individuals without criminal backgrounds is lacking. We compared a male sample of prisoners in a maximum-security penitentiary (n = 140), police…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
Lindsay Paturalski; Alesha Seroczynski – Metropolitan Universities, 2025
Scholars and practitioners have argued that higher education in prison (HEP) can help transform incarcerated people and prepare them to re-enter society in productive ways. Viewing education as a mechanistic device that can help incarcerated students attain jobs or skills without engaging with larger questions of personal growth and fulfillment,…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Liberal Arts, Higher Education
Glenetta C. Phillips – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of the present qualitative study of formerly incarcerated Black male students' is a heartfelt look into the lives of Black men navigating the U.S. criminal justice system using their resilience following participation in a prison-based education program. Drawing on a strength-based lens versus a deficit-based lens was a focus on…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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Patrick Filipe Conway – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This phenomenological study investigates the educational experiences formerly incarcerated students identify as being important developmentally as part of their participation in a college-in-prison program. It does so by exploring the experiences of 21 formerly incarcerated students who participated in the Boston University Prison Education…
Descriptors: Student Development, Andragogy, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions