What is it about?
This study examined the clinical utility of a meditation, mindfulness, and mantra intervention for youth experiencing serious mental illness while incarcerated.
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Why is it important?
Intent-to-treat analyzes found statistically significant reductions in global severity (d = − 0.44), positive symptoms distress (d = − 0.54), obsessive compulsive symptoms (d = − 0.65), paranoid ideation (d = − 0.49), and psychoticism (d = − 0.71). Positive symptoms, somatization, depression, hostility, and mindfulness non-significantly improved with small effect sizes.
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Participants were 17 adolescent males, aged 16 to 18, from two units of a county detention center in the San Francisco Bay Area. Groups that are incarcerated are rarely studied using innovative approaches to reduce mental illness and/or distress. This study sets the groundwork for more studies informing the clinical utility of meditation and mindfulness.
Dr Stephanie N Williams
Palo Alto University
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This page is a summary of: A Pilot Study of a Meditation and Mindfulness Program with Detained Juveniles: An Adaptation of Inner Resources for Teens (IRT), Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice, October 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/24732850.2020.1677108.
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