NDLI: Spirituality Development for Homeless Youth: A Mindfulness Meditation Feasibility Pilot

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Author	Grabbe, Linda Nguy, Scott T. Higgins, Melinda K.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Few resilience enhancement interventions are available to help homeless youth at high risk for mental health problems and substance abuse. Mindfulness meditation has demonstrated effectiveness in persons who deal with some of these issues. Our purpose was to examine the feasibility of delivering a spirituality development class—a minimally modified version of Yale University’s 8-session Spiritual Self-Schema (3-S) program—to homeless youth in a shelter in an urban center in the Southeastern United States. We used a quasi-experimental, one group, pre- and post-intervention design with standardized self-report measures of impulsiveness, resilience, spirituality, mental wellness, and psychological symptoms. Seventy-one youth enrolled in the study; 39 of the youth attended at least four sessions of the class and completed the posttest. The spirituality development class was well received by the youth and, overall, participants demonstrated improvement on measures of spirituality, mental wellness, psychological symptoms, and resilience on the posttest. There were no statistically meaningful changes in impulsiveness scores. We concluded that mindfulness meditation programs are feasible for this population. Future studies of high-risk youth should use a randomized controlled trial design to examine the long-term impact of such training on psychological status and behavioral outcomes such as educational path, work attainment, and drug and alcohol abuse.
Starting Page	925
Ending Page	937
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10621024
Journal	Journal of Child and Family Studies
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	15732843
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2011-12-27
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Adolescents Meditation Psychological resilience Homeless youth Spirituality Social Sciences Child and School Psychology Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Life-span and Life-course Studies Developmental and Educational Psychology

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