Citation

Rosenblum GD, Taska LS. Violence Against Women 2014; 20(3): 293-308.

Affiliation

Private Practice, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801214526048

PMID

24742869

Abstract

A well-designed self-defense curriculum, congruent with psychophysiologically informed trauma research and treatment, and integrated with input from therapists, can serve as an important adjunctive treatment. We provide a detailed description of such a program modified to be an experiential, psychoeducational intervention for female survivors of trauma. Recent research on the role of blocked motor responses in the development of pathology post-trauma is explored as a potential explanatory mechanism for the therapeutic benefits of self-defense training. Through specific examples and descriptions of teaching methods, we examine how this intervention compliments and augments traditional psychotherapeutic treatment of trauma sequelae.

Language: en