#freemind: Young Women Using Mindfulness Meditation to Cope with Life in a Juvenile Justice Institution

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.
Source: Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma - Category: Child Development Source Type: research