PSYCHOLOGICAL PROGRAMMES OF HELPING CONVICTED WOMEN WITH CHILDREN IN FOREIGN PENAL INSTITUTIONS
This article examines one of the topics that is always relevant, since convicted women who are in correctional institutions and have young children are a high-risk parent group both in terms of attachment formation and in terms of economic and social risk factors. Many women convicted are the primary guardians of children or others whose well-being can be negatively affected by their incarceration. The article analyzes correctional programs and assistance to convicted women developed in foreign countries aimed at solving the problems faced by mothers and their children in correctional institutions. The study defines the goals and assumptions of specialized intervention programs aimed at parent-child relationships, program data models, and occupation content. The main characteristics of the ongoing programs of support for mothers in correctional institutions of the world are to understand and support the emotional needs of women, improve the effectiveness of parental education, maintain affection between the mother and her child and reduce recidivism among convicted women.