This new volume provides a multidisciplinary analysis of how parental incarceration affects children and what can be done to help them. Contributors to this book bring a wide array of tools… Read more »
Read the story that the Center for Healthy Minds wrote about supporting children with incarcerated parents
In this video, I describe the results of a new study focusing on the evaluation of Sesame Street’s Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration materials on children with jailed parents. The… Read more »
In this podcast episode, child psychologist Julie Poehlmann-Tynan of the University of Wisconsin–Madison talks about a new study on attachment in children who have an incarcerated father and discusses some of the… Read more »
A new study shows that toddler “dysregulation” can lead to significant behavior problems when children are six years old. The children in the study were born preterm (at or before… Read more »
Read the story about pregnant women who are still being shackled in Wisconsin and other states
Listen to the BBC news report on “How to be a better mum in jail” featuring an interview with Prof. Rebecca Shlafer about her doula project with incarcerated pregnant women…. Read more »
A new report from the Urban Institute summarizes 6 programs for fathers with a history of incarceration. The following organizations and programs were included in the report: Kanawha Institute for Social… Read more »
The Urban Institute just released a white paper focusing on parent-child visitation when parents are in jail or prison. “Research on the effectiveness of different types of visits is limited,… Read more »
My recent Ph.D. graduates (Drs. Cynthia Burnson, Lindsay Weymouth, and Hilary Runion) and I just published a new study on attachment in young children with incarcerated fathers. We rated young children’s attachment… Read more »