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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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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
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Le, Ha Thi Thu; Vu, Truong Vuong; Phan, Long Thanh; Vu, Hang Thi Thuy – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2023
Reformatory students are those whose deviant behaviors and habits prevent them from receiving education under normal educational conditions. These students frequently lead a careless, undisciplined lifestyle, being unwilling to work and learn eager to play and demanding. Therefore, when they are admitted to reformatories with severe study and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Juvenile Justice, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
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Shafi, Adeela Ahmed; Middleton, Tristan; Jones, Chris – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
Children and young people who come into conflict with the law tend to be disengaged with education and learning. This paper reports on research from an EU Erasmus+ project in Spain, Italy, Germany and the UK. The research focused on the impact of Authentic Inquiry (AI) on learners in custodial or youth justice settings and the impact on educators…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
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Yao, Ching-Teng; Lee, Bih-O; Hong, Hong; Su, Yi-Ching – Educational Gerontology, 2023
Music therapy can help social workers deal with negative behaviors and symptoms of dementia in older adults without drugs or physical restraints, thereby improving the quality of care. This study tested the effectiveness of music therapy activities for improving agitated behavior in older adults with dementia living in long-term care institutions.…
Descriptors: Music Therapy, Intervention, Dementia, Program Effectiveness
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Güney, Gamze; Güllü, Esin; Kusan, Osman – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
The main purpose of this study is to examine the effects of exercise on the individual to preserve and improve the current state of both mental and physical health that women convicts need during the prison process and after release in social life. Beck Hopelessness Scale, Happiness Level Scale, Psychological Resilience Scale, State Anxiety Scale,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Exercise, Physical Health, Mental Health
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Tirrell, Jonathan M. – Journal of Moral Education, 2022
Forgiveness involves a shift from negative thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to positive ones after a transgression. Previous research supports the benefits of forgiving, particularly for physical and emotional health. However, debates within the character development literatures exist regarding whether forgiveness is a strength that benefits all…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Moral Development, Moral Values, Attitude Change
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Obi-Udeaja, Jane; Kerr, Catherine; Weller, Gordon – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2020
The involvement of mental health service users in a Higher Institution prevention and management of violence and aggression (PMVA) team's training delivery is a recognition of the contribution that the unique insights of people's lived experience can make to the development of practitioners. This research aimed to determine whether or not their…
Descriptors: Patients, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Health Workers, Nurses
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Polat, Seyat – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
This article explores the educational processes of the high-school youth and higher education youth of parents who were imprisoned following the coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016. Data was collected from parents who are involved in their children's education and who have been subjected to political persecution. The research is focused on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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Batki, Anna – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
With access to a unique sample of post-institutionalized Hungarian children, this study focused on the hypothesis that children who had been institutionalized for at least six months after birth have less developed capacities for emotion regulation; 90 children, aged 4-6, were placed in 1 of 3 groups: (1) children who had been institutionalized…
Descriptors: Children, Institutionalized Persons, Adoption, Child Rearing
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van Rijn, Biljana; Cooper, Mick; Jackson, Andrew; Wild, Ciara – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2017
The paper presents an introduction of a newly developed, avatar-based virtual reality therapy, as an addition to the therapeutic programme, within a therapeutic community prison in the UK. The participants had six group sessions facilitated by a counsellor. The aim of the project was to investigate whether this approach would improve mental health…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Therapy, Computer Simulation
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Basaran, Zekiye – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Aim: The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of recreational activities on the self-esteem and loneliness level of prisoners as an alternative education. Method: The sample of this research consisted of 23 female prisoners who were randomly selected in Kandira prison and detention house. As preliminary and final tests, these…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Nontraditional Education, Recreational Activities
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Wexler, Alice; Derby, John – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2015
In this article, we use a disability studies lens to examine ways in which the artworks of disabled people are bonded in a common sociopolitical experience. We analyze the history surrounding institutional art and the emergence of community art centers at the time of deinstitutionalization in the late 20th century. As a result of this…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Institutionalized Persons, Art, Art Activities
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Faúndez, Ximena; Goecke, Ximena – Journal of Social Science Education, 2015
This article introduces and discusses a research which sought to comprehend, through the analysis of the narratives of the grandchildren of victims of the Civic-Military Dictatorship in Chile, the phenomena of transgenerational psychosocial trauma. The research involved 14 grandchildren of former political prisoners (FPP), between 18 and 25 years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Victims, Trauma, Political Issues
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Taber, Nancy; Mojab, Shahrzad; VanderVliet, Cathy; Haghgou, Shirin; Paterson, Kate – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2017
This article is based on our Memoir Pedagogy Reading Circles research. Using an interpretative sociological case study methodology, we facilitated two groups that read and discussed women's memoirs as living texts of society, culture, and history; we read the self and the social through the personal narratives of violence, survival, and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Personal Narratives, Females
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