Publication Library

Messina, N. & Calhoun, S. (June 30, 2019).  Healing Trauma: A Brief Intervention for Women. SHU Evaluation Findings.   Report to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), Contract C5607040. Envisioning Justice Solutions, Inc.: Simi Valley, CA.  (Research in women’s prison on Healing Trauma) 

Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Evaluation and Analysis Unit.  (March 22, 2013).   Helping Women Recover/Beyond Trauma: Program Effects on Offender Criminal Thinking, Psychological Adjustment, and Social Functioning.  (Research in a women’s prison on Helping Women Recover and Beyond Trauma)

S. Covington. Helping Women Recover: A Comprehensive Integrated Treatment Model. Alcohol Treatment Quarterly 18 (3) (2000): 99-111.

S. Covington. Helping Women Recover: Creating Gender-Responsive Treatment. In L. Straussner and S. Brown, eds., Handbook of Women's Addictions Treatment. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002.

S. Covington. Helping Women Recover: Creating Gender-Specific Treatment For Substance-Abusing Women and Girls in Community Correctional Settings. In M. McMahon, ed., Assessment to Assistance: Programs for Women in Community Corrections. Latham, Md.: American Correctional Association, 2000, 171-233.

Calhoun, S., Messina, N., Cartier, J., and Torres, S.  (December 2010).  "Implementing Gender-Responsive Treatment for Women in Prison: Client and Staff Perspectives."  Federal Probation, Volume 74, Issue 3, Pages 27-33. (Research in a women's prison on Helping Women Recover and Beyond Trauma)

Kubiak, S., Fedock, G., Bybee, D. and Kim, W.J.  (Winter 2016).  "Long-Term Outcomes of a RCT Intervention Study for Women with Violent Crimes."  Journal of the Society of Social Work and Research, Vol. 7(4), pg 661-679. (Research in a women’s prison on Beyond Violence).

Messina, N., & Burdon, W. (June 30, 2019).  Moving Beyond Violence and Building Resilience.  Report to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), Contract C5607315.  Envisioning Justice Solutions, Inc.: Simi Valley, CA. (Research in men's prisons on Exploring Trauma)

Messina, N., & Burdon, W. (2017).  Moving Beyond Violence: Results.  Report to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). (Research in men's prison on Exploring Trauma)

Messina, N. & Schepps, M. (2021). "Opening the Proverbial 'Can of Worms' on Trauma‐Specific Treatment in Prison: The Association of ACEs to Treatment Outcomes." Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 28 (5), 1210-1221.  https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2568. (Research in prisons on Healing Trauma and Exploring Trauma) 

Messina, N. and Esparza, P. (2022).  Poking the Bear: The Inapplicability of the RNR Principles for Justice-involved Women.  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2022.108798

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Grella, C., Lovinger, K., & Warda, U.  (January 3, 2013).  “Relationships Among Trauma Exposure, Familial Characteristics, and PTSD: A Case-Control Study of Women in Prison and in the General Population.” Women in the Criminal Justice, 23:1, 63-79. (Research in a women’s prison on Helping Women Recover)

S. Covington.  Self-Discovery and Empowerment: The Voices Program for Girls.  Civic Research Institute, Women, Girls & Criminal Justice 5(6).  October/November, 2004. 

G. Fedock and S. Covington. Strengths-Based Approaches to the Treatment of Incarcerated Women and Girls. Facilitating Desistance from Aggression and Crime: Theory, Research, and Strength-Based Practices.  Edited by C. Langton and J. Worling.  United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell, 2022.