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Yoga as Complementary Care for Young People Placed in Juvenile Institutions—A Study Plan
Recent studies have established yoga practice as a mainstream complementary clinical tool within correctional environments. It is shown that regular yoga practice is coupled with improved impulse control, sustained attention, attenuated antisocial and self-harm behaviors, reduced stress, and psychol...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8211756/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34149466 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.575147 |
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description | Recent studies have established yoga practice as a mainstream complementary clinical tool within correctional environments. It is shown that regular yoga practice is coupled with improved impulse control, sustained attention, attenuated antisocial and self-harm behaviors, reduced stress, and psychological distress. No academic research until now has provided evidence of mental health benefits of yoga for institutionalized young people. In Sweden, each year more than thousand adolescents receive compulsory care at juvenile institutions run by the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care. These young people are characterized by substance abuse, aggressive and antisocial behaviors, high frequency of self-harm, and the experience of abuse. Most of them manifest attention problems, depression, anxiety, and impulsivity. They have a dramatically increased risk for recidivistic criminal behavior, continuous medical, and social care and untimely death. The present study plan aims at evaluating, with previously validated psychological measures, in a quasi-experimental design, the effects of yoga practice for institutionalized adolescents. Adolescents' experiences of participating in yoga practice will also be assessed by semi-structured individual interviews. Ethical approval was given by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority. It is hypothesized that yoga practice (in combination with the standard treatment within institutional care) will reduce institutionalized adolescents' aggression, antisocial behavior, anxiety, depression, and negative affect, and increase their cognitive flexibility (in the form of increased impulse control). |
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spelling | pubmed-82117562021-06-19 Yoga as Complementary Care for Young People Placed in Juvenile Institutions—A Study Plan Kerekes, Nóra Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Recent studies have established yoga practice as a mainstream complementary clinical tool within correctional environments. It is shown that regular yoga practice is coupled with improved impulse control, sustained attention, attenuated antisocial and self-harm behaviors, reduced stress, and psychological distress. No academic research until now has provided evidence of mental health benefits of yoga for institutionalized young people. In Sweden, each year more than thousand adolescents receive compulsory care at juvenile institutions run by the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care. These young people are characterized by substance abuse, aggressive and antisocial behaviors, high frequency of self-harm, and the experience of abuse. Most of them manifest attention problems, depression, anxiety, and impulsivity. They have a dramatically increased risk for recidivistic criminal behavior, continuous medical, and social care and untimely death. The present study plan aims at evaluating, with previously validated psychological measures, in a quasi-experimental design, the effects of yoga practice for institutionalized adolescents. Adolescents' experiences of participating in yoga practice will also be assessed by semi-structured individual interviews. Ethical approval was given by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority. It is hypothesized that yoga practice (in combination with the standard treatment within institutional care) will reduce institutionalized adolescents' aggression, antisocial behavior, anxiety, depression, and negative affect, and increase their cognitive flexibility (in the form of increased impulse control). Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8211756/ /pubmed/34149466 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.575147 Text en Copyright © 2021 Kerekes. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Kerekes, Nóra Yoga as Complementary Care for Young People Placed in Juvenile Institutions—A Study Plan |
title | Yoga as Complementary Care for Young People Placed in Juvenile Institutions—A Study Plan |
title_full | Yoga as Complementary Care for Young People Placed in Juvenile Institutions—A Study Plan |
title_fullStr | Yoga as Complementary Care for Young People Placed in Juvenile Institutions—A Study Plan |
title_full_unstemmed | Yoga as Complementary Care for Young People Placed in Juvenile Institutions—A Study Plan |
title_short | Yoga as Complementary Care for Young People Placed in Juvenile Institutions—A Study Plan |
title_sort | yoga as complementary care for young people placed in juvenile institutions—a study plan |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8211756/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34149466 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.575147 |
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