title: Appreciative inquiry in youthful offender psychiatric nursing research.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Combined with demonstrated impulsive behaviors and culturally bound expectations, youth who are detained in the juvenile justice system are challenged to find opportunities to articulate their stories and life experiences that contribute to a future life.
  
  
  METHODS
  Appreciative inquiry (AI) as a research method is used to analyze interviews of youth residing in a juvenile detention center.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The narrative, or life pattern, that youth in detention express is explicated through the four processes of the 4-D Cycle in AI. The processes are discovery, dreaming, designing, and delivery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  AI as a research method is useful to conduct interviews with detained youth, to provide a data analysis method for qualitative interviews, and generate nursing interventions. Through articulation of their own stories, youth discover voice and envision empowerment.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing and Health Professions, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, Indiana, USA. ecbonham@usi.edu
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bonham
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods