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New open access articles available at Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health Ahead of Print!
Resilience training, stories, and health
Julie Salverson
This article is derived from my participation in, and experiences at, the fifth annual War Horse Symposium in Alberta in September 2015. The creative arts offer tools for self-awareness and self-care to military personnel, their families, and other first responders. Resilience training engages participants in interpersonal and organizational reconnaissance through the language of theatre – the language of bodies analyzing experiences and stories. This work addresses physical flexibility, energy flow and mindfulness, peer support, action-based role-play, and the things people say to each other while witnessing what can't be put into words. It also describes an environment that activates pleasure, laughter, and play. Four elements promote self-knowledge, community connection, and healing in creative resilience training: witnessing and being witnessed, discovering narrative options for re-storying one's life, experiencing oneself beyond the definition of one's injury, and connecting with others in ways that build healthier brains. When we experience being respected, not shamed; listened to, not ignored; safe, not at risk; our neurological pathways change. Inter-subjectively, both participant and witness become changed neurologically and psychologically. War Horse Awareness Foundation founder Deanna Lennox says, “Creative resiliency training gets connected to their bodies and spirits.”
Yoga and Canadian Armed Forces members' well-being: an analysis based on select physiological and psychological measures
Dianne Groll, Danielle Charbonneau, Stéphanie Bélanger, Samantha Senyshyn
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric illness that may develop following a traumatic event or a situation involving the threat of death or serious injury to oneself or others. PTSD is often comorbid with other mental and physical health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and chronic pain. Several therapeutic, pharmaceutical, and non-traditional interventions are being investigated to eliminate or reduce the severity of these comorbidities in those who suffer from PTSD. The current study investigated the effect of yoga on individuals who did, or did not, screen positively for PTSD on their self-reported symptoms of depression, anxiety, and anger. We also examined perceived physical pain, sleep disturbances, and mental and physical health–related quality of life.
Issue 2.2 coming November 2016!
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Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health
The Canadian Institute for Military & Veteran Health Research and the University of Toronto Press are pleased to announce the launch of the Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health(JMVFH). http://bit.ly/jmvfh
The aim of this new open-access journal is to maximize the health and social wellbeing of military personnel, Veterans, and their families by disseminating world-class research to a broad international and multidisciplinary readership of researchers, practitioners, administrators, and policy makers. The cutting edge nature of research published in JMVFH enables clinicians working to address particular challenges, establish best practices and share preliminary results from new therapies that will lead to the next great breakthroughs. JMVFH is edited by Alice Aiken and Stéphanie Bélanger, and managed by Mike Schaub.
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