Clinical Research Directory

Feasibility Trial of a Correctional Management for Juvenile Offenders

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a structured Correctional Management intervention can be feasibly implemented with incarcerated juveniles in a correctional institution. It will also assess whether the research procedures can be successfully carried out with this population. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Can participants be effectively recruited, retained, and engaged, and can the intervention be delivered acceptably with adequate therapist adherence and complete outcome data collection? 2. Does the intervention demonstrate preliminary effectiveness? Researcher will compare an experimental (intervention) group to a control group receiving standard institutional management to see if the intervention can be practically delivered and is associated with initial changes in outcomes. Participants will: 1. Be randomly assigned to either the intervention group or the control group 2. Complete assessments at baseline (before the intervention) and post-intervention 3. Attend structured intervention sessions (if assigned to the experimental group) 4. Complete standardized self-report measures assessing emotional and behavioral difficulties, psychological capital, criminal thinking styles, attitudes toward seeking mental health services, emotion regulation, and moral disengagement

The Effect of a Self-Compassionate Mindfulness Psychoeducation Program Implemented in Prison on Internalized Stigma, Emotion Regulation, and Forgiveness in Juvenile Delinquents

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of the Self-Compassionate Mindfulness Psychoeducation Program on internalized stigma, emotion regulation, and forgiveness among adolescents involved in delinquency under prison conditions. Objectives Objective 1: To develop a Self-Compassionate Mindfulness Psychoeducation Program for juveniles involved in delinquency and to ensure its content validity. Objective 2: To conduct a pilot implementation of the developed psychoeducation program. Objective 3: To administer pre-tests to juveniles involved in delinquency using psychometrically validated and reliable scales to assess levels of internalized stigma, emotion regulation, and forgiveness. Objective 4: To implement the developed psychoeducation program in a prison setting over the course of six sessions. Objective 5: To administer post-tests to juveniles involved in delinquency using psychometrically validated and reliable scales to assess levels of internalized stigma, emotion regulation, and forgiveness. Objective 6: To perform statistical analyses of the collected data. H₀ Hypothesis: The Self-Compassionate Mindfulness Psychoeducation Program administered to juveniles involved in delinquency in a prison setting does not affect the mean scores of internalized stigma, emotion regulation, and forgiveness in the experimental group. H₁a Hypothesis: The Self-Compassionate Mindfulness Psychoeducation Program administered to juveniles involved in delinquency in a prison setting decreases the mean scores of internalized stigma in the experimental group. H₁b Hypothesis: The Self-Compassionate Mindfulness Psychoeducation Program administered to juveniles involved in delinquency in a prison setting increases the mean scores of emotion regulation in the experimental group. H₁c Hypothesis: The Self-Compassionate Mindfulness Psychoeducation Program administered to juveniles involved in delinquency in a prison setting increases the mean scores of forgiveness in the experimental group.

The Community Youth Development Study: A Test of Communities That Care

The Community Youth Development Study is an experimental test of the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention planning system. It has been designed to find out if communities that were trained to use the CTC system improved public health by reducing rates of adolescent drug use, delinquency, violence, and risky sexual behavior when compared to communities that did not use this approach. The primary purpose of the current continuation study is to investigate whether CTC has long-term effects on substance use, antisocial behavior, and violence, as well as secondary effects on educational attainment, mental health, and sexual risk behavior in young adults at ages 26 and 28. The continuation study also examines (a) how the interaction of social, normative, and legal marijuana contexts creates variation in the permissiveness of individuals' marijuana environments from late childhood to young adulthood and (b) whether, when, and for whom permissive marijuana environments increase marijuana and ATOD use and misuse from age 11 to 28 and interfere with the adoption of adult roles.