Gender-Responsive Treatment for Women in Prison

为监狱中的女性提供促进性别平等的待遇

• 批准号: 7140409
• 负责人: NENA Portia MESSINA
• 金额: $ 18.26万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-20 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7140409
• 关键词: behavior modification; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; correctional institutions; curriculum; drug abuse education; drug abuse prevention; education evaluation /planning; female; health care service evaluation; health care service planning; health services research tag; human subject; human therapy evaluation; outcomes research; patient care management; substance abuse related behavior; women' s health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This 2-year pilot study will determine the relative effectiveness of a women-focused (WF) treatment program based on relational theory ("Helping Women Recover": Covington, 1999; 2003) compared to a standard prison therapeutic community (TC) treatment program to promote positive behaviors among women inmates. Covington contends that relational theory provides a useful conceptual basis for planning and implementing appropriate drug abuse treatment services for women offenders, as this model focuses services on women's specific needs and incorporates services that are implemented in a manner that promotes women's psychological growth and helps them to discontinue the cycle of substance abuse and criminal behavior. This curriculum, however, has not been empirically tested. Specifically, 100 women at Valley State Prison for Women in California will be randomly assigned to the WF or TC treatment prison programs. The specific aims of this study are: 1. To pilot test the efficacy of a theoretically based, multi-faceted, WF curriculum to promote positive behaviors among women offenders (i.e., increased self-efficacy and psychological well-being, aftercare participation, and reductions in drug use and recidivism) compared to the impact of a standard prison TC program. 2. 2. To qualitatively assess treatment staff and client perceptions' of the elements of the WF program which are intrinsic to the theoretical basis of the curriculum to refine and improve the WF model of treatment for women in prison. Findings from the proposed pilot study will be used as a platform for the development of a later, larger, and more rigorous study on WF treatment within a prison setting.

描述（由申请人提供）： 这项为期两年的试点研究将根据关系理论（“帮助妇女康复”：Covington，1999; 2003）确定以女性为中心（WF）治疗计划的相对有效性，而标准的监狱治疗界（TC）治疗计划（TC）治疗计划以促进女性囚犯的积极行为。卡温顿认为，关系理论为计划和实施适当的妇女罪犯提供适当的药物滥用治疗服务提供了有用的概念基础，因为该模型将服务重点关注妇女的特定需求，并以促进女性心理增长的方式进行纳入服务，并帮助他们停用毒品滥用和犯罪行为的循环。但是，该课程尚未经过经验测试。具体来说，加利福尼亚山谷州妇女监狱的100名妇女将随机分配给WF或TC治疗监狱计划。 这项研究的具体目的是： 1。试点测试理论上基于多方面的WF课程的功效，以促进女性罪犯的积极行为（即，自我效能感和心理健康，后果的参与以及毒品使用和累犯的减少）与标准监狱TC计划的影响相比。 2。2。定性评估WF计划要素的治疗人员和客户的看法，这些内容与课程的理论基础固有，以完善和改善监狱中妇女的WF治疗模型。 拟议的试点研究的发现将被用作开发后来在监狱环境中WF治疗的更大，更严格的研究的平台。