Hawkins et al., 2003
Hawkins, Mark A.; Alexander, Charles N.; Travis, Frederick T.; Camelia, Carl R. T.; Walton, Kenneth G.; Durchholz, Christian F.; and Rainforth, Maxwell V. Consciousness-Based Rehabilitation of inmates in the Netherlands Antilles: Psychosocial and cognitive changes. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 36: 205–228, 2003.
Prison inmates in the Netherlands Antilles who learned the Transcendental Meditation program, in contrast to control inmates, showed significantly reduced cognitive distortion and improvement in intelligence-related measures after 10 months.
- Year
- 2003
- Journal
- Journal of Offender Rehabilitation
- Publication type
- Journal
- Paper type
- Empirical
- Collected Papers
- Vol. 7, pp. 4863–4878
- Section
- Rehabilitation
Findings (2)
Rehabilitation of Offenders
Improved Intellectual Functioning among Prisoners
Transcendental Meditation · Longitudinal with nonrandomized controls
Decreased Cognitive Distortion among Prisoners
Transcendental Meditation · Longitudinal with nonrandomized controls
Authors
- Mark A. Hawkins, PhD
Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, IA, USA
- Charles N. Alexander, PhD
Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, IA, USA
- Frederick Travis, PhD
Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, IA, USA
- Kenneth G. Walton, PhD
Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, IA, USA
- Christian F. Durchholz, MSc
Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, IA, USA
- Maxwell V. Rainforth, PhD
Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, IA, USA
- Carl R. T. Camelia, LLM
University of Netherlands Antilles, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles