Trauma-Informed Yoga

This evaluation examines the impacts of Exhale to Inhale's trauma-informed yoga (TIY) on stress, somatic complaints, and self-efficacy among female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) and affiliated staff in community-based domestic violence agencies. A two-phase study design was employed, the first of which collected data from in-person group classes and the second from remotely taught classes due to COVID-19 safety restrictions. Collected over 3 years, 526 female survivors ( n = 361) and staff ( n = 165) from 66 domestic violence agencies completed surveys revealing improved stress, somatic complaints, and self-efficacy following a single TIY session. TIY serves as a capacity-building intervention that is suitable and adaptable for survivors of IPV and the staff at domestic violence agencies

Domestic violence · Intervention (counseling · Medical emergency · Poison control · Suicide prevention · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Medicine · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions · Nursing · Psychology

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  Open Access•Navid Reha, Ayla Rezvan Reha•Journal of Family Violence•2024

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• Service Pathways and Outcomes of Holistic Programs Supporting Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence

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• How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective

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• Social Baseline Theory

  Open Access•Lane Beckes, James A Coan•Social and Personality Psychology…•2011

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• Vicarious Traumatization, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout in Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Agency Staff

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• Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density

  Open Access•Britta K Hölzel, John Carmody et al.•Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging•2011

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• Intimate Partner Violence and Long-Term Psychosocial Functioning in a National Sample of American Women

  Open Access•Caron Zlotnick, Dawn M Johnson et al.•Journal of Interpersonal Violence•2006

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• Program evaluation of trauma-informed yoga for vulnerable populations

  Open Access•Deanne C Tibbitts, Sue A Aicher et al.•Evaluation and Program Planning•2021

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• When Crises Collide

  Open Access•Lisa A Goodman, Katya Fels Smyth et al.•Trauma Violence & Abuse•2009

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• Yoga for Trauma and Related Mental Health Problems

  Open Access•Rebecca J Macy, Elizabeth Jones et al.•Trauma Violence & Abuse•2018

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• Segmented journeys, fragmented lives

  Janet C Bowstead•Journal of Gender-Based Violence•2017

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• Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Domestic Violence Advocates

  Open Access•Suzanne M Slattery, Lisa A Goodman•Violence Against Women•2009

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• An Eight State Study on the Relationships Among Domestic Violence Shelter Services and Residents’ Self-Efficacy and Hopefulness

  Open Access•Cris M Sullivan, Tyler Virden•Journal of Family Violence•2017

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• Being on the Mat

  Amy B Smoyer•The Journal of Sociology & Social…•2016

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• The role of self-care on compassion satisfaction, burnout and secondary trauma among child welfare workers

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• Three Eras of Survey Research

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