title: Effectiveness of an Extended Yoga Treatment for Women with Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Yoga has been found to be an effective posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment for a variety of trauma survivors, including females with chronic PTSD. Aim/Purpose: The current study builds on extant research by examining an extended trauma-sensitive yoga treatment for women with chronic PTSD. The study sought to optimize the results of a treatment protocol examined in a recent randomized controlled trial with a shorter duration and without assignment or monitoring of home practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors examined a 20-week trauma-sensitive yoga treatment in a non-randomized single-group treatment feasibility study for women with chronic treatment-resistant PTSD (N = 9). The authors examined PTSD and dissociation symptom reduction over several assessment periods.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results indicate that participants experienced significant reductions in PTSD and dissociative symptomatology above and beyond similar treatments of a shorter duration.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings suggest that more intensive trauma-sensitive yoga treatment characterized by longer duration and intentional assignment and monitoring of home practice may be more advantageous for individuals with severe and chronic PTSD. The implications of the findings for the potentially more substantial role of yoga as an intervention for a subset of adults with chronic treatment-resistant PTSD are discussed.
authors.affiliation: 1 The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute , Brookline, MA.|2 Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, Boston College , Newton, MA.
authors.forename: Maggi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Price
authors.affiliation: 1 The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute , Brookline, MA.|3 Department of Psychology, Suffolk University , Boston, MA.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spinazzola
authors.affiliation: 1 The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute , Brookline, MA.|3 Department of Psychology, Suffolk University , Boston, MA.
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Musicaro
authors.affiliation: 1 The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute , Brookline, MA.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.affiliation: 1 The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute , Brookline, MA.|3 Department of Psychology, Suffolk University , Boston, MA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suvak
authors.affiliation: 1 The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute , Brookline, MA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Emerson
authors.affiliation: 1 The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute , Brookline, MA.|4 Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine , Boston, MA.
authors.forename: Bessel
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: van der Kolk
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000628:therapy*; D015013:Yoga
keywords: PTSD; PTSD treatment; chronic PTSD; yoga