Children’s Contact with Incarcerated Parents
Implications for Policy and Intervention
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This study examines relations among parental arrest, child executive functioning (EF), and problem behaviors among youth who participated in the baseline assessment of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Developmen...
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Parental incarceration is a significant cause of relationship disruption for millions of children across the United States. Despite their elevated risk for attachment insecurity, behavior and health problems, ...
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Although parental incarceration is an adverse childhood experience, the developmental pathways of children with incarcerated parents are heterogeneous. Some children with incarcerated parents are exposed to in...
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The novel coronavirus pandemic has caused marriage and family therapists (MFTs) to alter how they provide clinical services. MFTs must determine how to deliver relationship-oriented services to underserved pop...
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Although only 4% of the world’s women live in the United States, the United States accounts for more than 30% of the world’s incarcerated women. The vast majority of incarcerated women are mothers of minor chi...
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This chapter integrates findings about maternal involvement in the criminal justice system presented in the Brief’s six empirical chapters with what is previously known about incarcerated mothers and their chi...
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Sexual- and/or gender-minority (SGM) youth report rates of suicidality, depression, and anxiety that are two to three times greater than those of their sexual- and gender-majority peers. Mounting evidence sugg...
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More than five million children have experienced a co-resident parent leaving to spend time behind bars. Most incarceration occurs in jails, yet little is known about contact between parents in jail and their ...
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This study examined family disruption in the form of jailed parents’ housing instability in the year leading up to their most recent incarceration, including periods of homelessness with and without their chil...
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The crisis of precipitated by the Trump administration’s “ ” on the southern border has focused the nation’s attention sharply on the negative short- and long-term consequences of separating from the...
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are an increasing and significant population, not only in the but around the world. An expanding body of rigorous , particularly over the past decade, has found that are at increased for a variety of...
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As the number of affected by has risen, so too have issues regarding ’s with parents at corrections facilities. Many incarcerated parents do not receive any . For some, this is a choice because they do...
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We had two primary goals when we embarked on assembling this second edition. First, we aimed to summarize and synthesize recent on and their families that have been conducted across a variety of discipline...
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Mental health disparities among sexual and gender minority youth likely reflect a maladaptive co** response to contexts rife with stigma messaging and discrimination. Identifying adaptive co** responses to...
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This pilot randomized controlled trial with economically disadvantaged preschoolers investigated the feasibility and preliminary effects of a mindfulness intervention. We examined its effect on children’s empa...
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