Supporting Students with Incarcerated Parents in Schools: A Group Intervention

The Impact of Peer Death on Adolescent Girls: An Efficacy Study of the Adolescent Grief and Loss Group

“…School-based groups have been provided to focus on a myriad of topics to include improving academic success (Webb & Brigman, 2007), diversity sensitivity training (Nickels, Mims, & Mims, 2007), adolescents of deployed soldiers (Rush & Akos, 2007), adolescents with incarcerated parents (Lopez & Bhat, 2007), parental separation and divorce (Ziffer, Crawford, & Penney-Wietor, 2007), and adolescents with disabilities (McEachern & Kenney, 2007). Other topics for groups have historically included eating disorders, anger management/bullying, pregnancy prevention, social skills/competency, and substance abuse prevention.…”

Children of Imprisoned Parents and Their Coping Strategies: A Systematic Review

“…The present review found that schools as very resourceful and helpful for children's academic and personal improvement. However, there is a need for additional staff training and guidelines for working with children who have a parent in prison and the resulting situations [36,43], which was also stated in Tisdall et al's [48] findings.…”

“…Therefore, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence -instrument for reviews [33] was used to assess the quality of one publication [34]. In this review, two studies were of low quality (25 %: [35;36], five studies had moderate scores (50 %: [37;38;39;40;41], two studies were of high quality (75 %: [42,43] and one study had very high quality (100 %: [44]. The literature review [34] did not meet 3/5 of the quality criteria due to missing information.…”

“…In general, group interventions had positive long-term effects [34,41,43]. In contrast, mentoring programmes supported children's coping strategies through distractive activities and helped children to immediately feel better [17,35,37].…”

“…Three of the included publications [34,36,43] suggested that school counsellors and health professionals could provide support for children who have parent(s) in prison (Table 2). However, there is a need to further train these professionals to perform supportive tasks.…”