The painful pasts and hard lives make women and juvenile prisoners vulnerable to emotional imbalance and psychological decay. To address this critical problem WAT has a panel of professionally qualified psychologists who pay periodic visits to project sites to provide group and individual counseling to prison inmates. The aim of this support is to help the women and juvenile prisoners regain emotional balance and learn to live peacefully and constructively in their current situation. The healthy development of children of women prisoners, for whom the prison environment offers a distorted picture of the world, is also a focus.

In addition to psychological support, prison inmates require religious education and support to counter the negative effects of their contact with the world of crime, and to enable them to later become mainstreamed in society as strong and self-respecting individuals. WAT offers lectures and special programs to bring the message of the religion to prison inmates and help them find spiritual strength and direction. These efforts combine with WAT’s emotional support program, help prisoners confront and clear their inner confusions and find peace and stability.