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Yoga
Mind-body exerciseGoal is to get the mind and the body work as a solid unitPhysical harmony & health Mental balance & peace
Yoga as alternative therapy for eating disorder treatment
Peacekeepers
• Motives of Finnish men to become peacekeepers• Data: Three stories made by Finnish soldiers who have participated in peacekeeping missions
Our Own Previous Studies
Linda Nurkkala ([email protected])
Mirka Vornanen ([email protected])
University of Jyväskylä
4.5.2011
Therapeutic Social Work and Homecoming Soldiers
Research questionPurpose for our studyHypothesesLiteratureVideoDiscussion
Outline
How could therapeutic social work help homecoming soldiers?
Research Question
Quotes from the peacekeeper-data:
”When I came back home, I felt empty. I didn’t want to return to normal everyday life.... It was cultural shock. ”
”After coming back to Finland I started feeling bad, especially when I was thinking about my future. I still loved things which were important to me like my family, but my thoughts were still in Kosovo. ”
Purpose for Our Study
It’s hard for soldiers to get back into society, when they’re coming home.
Social workers should have a role to help integrate soldiers with the community.
Soldiers might need all kinds of help for instance practical issues and also with coping with their experiences
Normal “talk therapy” isn’t always enough so complimentary treatments like yoga could help dealing with possible traumas
Hypotheses
Severe anxiety disorderBrain functions around the experience of trauma in
a way that it is often difficult or impossible for a traumatized person to share emotions through language.
Studies have shown that the language center of the brain actually shuts down when trauma is triggered.
Body could be a potential gateway to treating emotional pain and trauma when it cannot be accessed through dialogue
Yoga offers a non-verbal, experiential adjunct to talking therapy
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Bennett-Pasquale, Teresa: Yoga: A healing art in a psycotherapy contexthttp://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Professional_Development_%26_Advancement/Yoga%3A_A_Healing_Art_in_a_Psychotheapy_Context/
Shachtman, Noah:Army’s New PTSD Treatments: Yoga, Reiki, ‘Bioenergy’ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/03/army-bioenergy/
“ The Army just unveiled a $4 million program to investigate everything from "spiritual ministry, transcendental meditation,[and] yoga"
Possible Literature
Video clip:http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi4128834329/
Yoga Practicing Soldiers
Feel free to tell your opinnios:
Do you believe in power of yoga?
Could it really help homecoming soldiers?
Do you think ”army yoga” as a silly nonsense or an useful invention?
Do you have any questions?
Discussion
http://www.topnews.in/usa/us-army-incorporates-yoga-training-28169
http://www.spiritvoyage.com/blog/index.php/miltary-yoga-yoga-in-the-army/
http://layogamagazine.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=37
www.yogabodynaturals.com/.../ 09/yoga-soldier.jpg
http://wpln.org/wp-content/2011/03/yoga-pose-1.jpg
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