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TOPIC: PATHS TO RECOVERY
In The Body Keeps the Score, the author discusses a number of unorthodox (unorthodox by traditional Western standards, that is) practices that can help survivors of trauma heal and process what happened to them. He mentions things like karate, art, animals, art, meditation, pilates, music, etc. You may know of other things that might help with other forms of trauma. I am looking for non-traditional therapeutic strategies that are gaining steam among practitioners.
For your second paper, choose one of these practices, do research about its therapeutic use, and write a research paper about it. Describe the practice, where it came from, how it functions, and why it works (giving the appropriate evidence of course). What does trauma do to the body or to the mind that this particular practice helps with? What is it about the practice you have chosen that can help survivors of trauma? And what evidence is there out there that it does indeed work? Be mindful that different therapies may work better and worse for different people and for different conditions, so avoid unnecessarily grandiose or generic claims.