Adjunctive Yoga

In the article, “Yoga as an Adjunctive Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A randomized Controlled Trial”, Inslicht and her colleagues (2014) tested whether trauma-informed yoga could be used as a treatment for women with PTSD. The study compared the trauma-informed yoga treatment to a supportive women’s health education class. This study stated that yoga could be used as an ‘adjunctive’ treatment for PTSD but didn’t pair the treatment with any other forms of treatment. The study I would like to propose is to test whether yoga with prolonged exposure would be beneficial versus prolonged exposure without yoga. My hypothesis is that women would benefit from prolonged exposure with yoga because it will teach women how to control their mind and body and be able to deal with their conflict head on. In one study (FIND), it shows that many people drop out of prolonged exposure because …show more content…
Then, I would have a licensed psychiatrist screen the applicants to see if they fit the DSM-V criteria for PTSD. I would then take those who passed the screening and randomly assign them to the two treatment groups, prolonged exposure and prolonged exposure with yoga. In the prolonged exposure treatment, participants will go to a psychiatrist’s office to do treatment for one hour once a week for 10 weeks. In the prolonged exposure treatment with yoga, participants will go to a psychiatrist’s office for one hour once a week for 10 weeks with the time split for 30 minutes of yoga and 30 minutes of prolonged exposure treatment. There will be a pretreatment, mid treatment (at 5 weeks), and post-treatment assessment to compare the results of the treatments. The assessment will be conducted by licensed clinicians in which they will determine whether participants still meet the criteria for PTSD in DSM-V based on self-report and observing participant’s