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The voices of incarcerated women at the forefront of parenting program development: a trauma-informed approach to education
BACKGROUND: The lives of women experiencing incarceration are complex, impacting many aspects of parenting. Incarceration can present an opportunity for women to access parenting education. However, their specific needs have to be considered. Few parenting programs for women experiencing incarcerati...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9277800/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35829846 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-022-00185-7 |
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author | Lovell, Belinda J. Steen, Mary P. Brown, Angela E. Esterman, Adrian J. |
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description | BACKGROUND: The lives of women experiencing incarceration are complex, impacting many aspects of parenting. Incarceration can present an opportunity for women to access parenting education. However, their specific needs have to be considered. Few parenting programs for women experiencing incarceration have involved the women as part of their development. METHODS: Six focus groups were conducted in a prison setting involving thirty-one women to explore and understand their parenting education needs. RESULTS: Four main themes were identified to reflect the complex lives of the women and their parenting education needs. These themes were: working towards a positive self, communication as a lifeline, supporting and nurturing their children and hopefulness and reconnecting. The trauma women experienced in their lives was apparent during discussions. CONCLUSION: Women requested a non-judgmental parenting program to be developed to meet their specific needs and circumstances. The program needed to be designed to enable them to share stories with women in similar situations. Women gave insights into some of the specific content and topics they would like included in a parenting program. The women revealed experiences of trauma in their lives, demonstrating the importance of the need for a trauma informed approach to parenting education. |
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spelling | pubmed-92778002022-07-14 The voices of incarcerated women at the forefront of parenting program development: a trauma-informed approach to education Lovell, Belinda J. Steen, Mary P. Brown, Angela E. Esterman, Adrian J. Health Justice Research Article BACKGROUND: The lives of women experiencing incarceration are complex, impacting many aspects of parenting. Incarceration can present an opportunity for women to access parenting education. However, their specific needs have to be considered. Few parenting programs for women experiencing incarceration have involved the women as part of their development. METHODS: Six focus groups were conducted in a prison setting involving thirty-one women to explore and understand their parenting education needs. RESULTS: Four main themes were identified to reflect the complex lives of the women and their parenting education needs. These themes were: working towards a positive self, communication as a lifeline, supporting and nurturing their children and hopefulness and reconnecting. The trauma women experienced in their lives was apparent during discussions. CONCLUSION: Women requested a non-judgmental parenting program to be developed to meet their specific needs and circumstances. The program needed to be designed to enable them to share stories with women in similar situations. Women gave insights into some of the specific content and topics they would like included in a parenting program. The women revealed experiences of trauma in their lives, demonstrating the importance of the need for a trauma informed approach to parenting education. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9277800/ /pubmed/35829846 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-022-00185-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lovell, Belinda J. Steen, Mary P. Brown, Angela E. Esterman, Adrian J. The voices of incarcerated women at the forefront of parenting program development: a trauma-informed approach to education |
title | The voices of incarcerated women at the forefront of parenting program development: a trauma-informed approach to education |
title_full | The voices of incarcerated women at the forefront of parenting program development: a trauma-informed approach to education |
title_fullStr | The voices of incarcerated women at the forefront of parenting program development: a trauma-informed approach to education |
title_full_unstemmed | The voices of incarcerated women at the forefront of parenting program development: a trauma-informed approach to education |
title_short | The voices of incarcerated women at the forefront of parenting program development: a trauma-informed approach to education |
title_sort | voices of incarcerated women at the forefront of parenting program development: a trauma-informed approach to education |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9277800/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35829846 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-022-00185-7 |
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