Evans-Chase Michelle, Kornmann Rachel, Litts Christine, Pantesco Elizabeth
1School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.
2Department of Psychology, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ USA.
J Child Adolesc Trauma. 2019 Jan 4;12(3):377-385. doi: 10.1007/s40653-018-0245-5. eCollection 2019 Sep.
The purpose of this study was to introduce mindfulness meditation, a recommended adjunctive treatment for trauma in juvenile justice-involved youth, to incarcerated young women and collect narrative commentary about their experiences to answer the following research questions: What is the experience of incarcerated young women who participate in Internet-based mindfulness meditation classes? How do incarcerated young women apply mindfulness meditation to life in a juvenile justice facility? Participants attended bi-weekly guided meditation sessions and wrote about their experiences after each session in a journal. Three coders used open-coding content analysis to identify topics and themes across 38 journal entries. The primary theme, found in 61% of entries, described the difficulties of living in a juvenile justice facility, providing context for the descriptions found in 58% of entries regarding the usefulness of mindfulness meditation to cope with those difficulties. This study highlights the challenges of living in a correctional institution as a young woman and the barriers such settings pose to the wellbeing and healthy development of their residents. It also points to mindfulness meditation as an operative method of supporting these highly traumatized young women until that time when alternatives to incarceration can be identified.
本研究的目的是向被监禁的年轻女性介绍正念冥想——一种针对涉司法青少年创伤推荐的辅助治疗方法，并收集她们关于自身经历的叙述性评论，以回答以下研究问题：参与基于互联网的正念冥想课程的被监禁年轻女性有怎样的体验？被监禁的年轻女性如何将正念冥想应用于青少年司法设施中的生活？参与者参加了每两周一次的引导冥想课程，并在每次课程结束后在日记中写下自己的经历。三名编码员使用开放式编码内容分析法，从38篇日记条目中确定主题。在61%的条目中发现的主要主题描述了生活在青少年司法设施中的困难，为58%的条目中关于正念冥想对应对这些困难的有用性的描述提供了背景。这项研究突出了年轻女性在惩教机构生活的挑战，以及这类环境对其居民的幸福和健康发展构成的障碍。它还指出正念冥想是支持这些受创伤严重的年轻女性的一种有效方法，直到能够确定替代监禁的方式。
