Chapter 8:Students with trauma- does exercise help with school behaviors?

Education goes through many phases of different "best practices" and some of them are fads, while some end up becoming a new pillar of the education world for a few decades. The bottom line is simple... Education is always evolving and trying to get better and better. A newer item brought to the foray of education is "Trauma Informed care". There is a brief video to explain TIC

* Warning This video briefly describes a sexual assault please be warned that it may not be suitable for all viewers*
 * TIC involves asking question to essentially get to potential trauma
 * Unearths pertinent information from participants
 * Identifies potential trauma

Now we have to define what trauma means in this case and in the context of education.

Trauma can best be defined as: a deeply distressing or disturbing experience

For a student this can be a friend moving away, parents divorcing, loved ones passing and even severe things such as physical abuse or sexual assault. So TIC can uncover these traumas that students may have that originally were not known. So how do we handle the students trauma at this point. It is easy to see that if a student has severe trauma they would logically carry with them a large amount of stress, so finding a way to relieve stress is important for these students.

Yoga is a great exercise based stress reliever. Yoga teaches many wonderful techniques for breathing and keeping yourself centered and balanced. In a study conducted by The Journal of Health Psychology there were 300+ students interviewed and 50+ yoga instructors and the findings concluded that 85% of participants find some sort of stress relief in Yoga. This could be seen as a potential option for students with trauma to potentially keep themselves centered and even more healthy.

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references:

[6] Park, C., Riley, K., Bedesin, E., & Stewart, V. (2016). Why practice yoga? Practitioners’ motivations for adopting and maintaining yoga practice. Journal of Health Psychology, 21(6), 887-896.