Resources & Research
Audio
Interview with David Emerson on The Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Approach. Mindful Matter with Blu Matter Project, 22 September 2020
Interview with David Emerson on Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga: Therapy Chat Podcast number 75, 10 March 10, 2017
TCTSY Research articles
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Women Veterans who Experienced Military Sexual Trauma: Interim Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial. Kelly, Haywood, Segell &Higgins. Journal of Alternative and complementary Medicine. 27(1), 2021
Moderators of Treatment Efficacy in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga as an Adjunctive Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Nguyen-Feng, Hodgdon, Emerson, Silverberg & Clark. Psychology Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 12(8), 2020
Yoga for PTSD and the role of interoceptive awareness: A preliminary mixed-methods case series study. Neukirch, Reid & Shires, European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, (2018)
Trauma Sensitive Yoga as a Complementary Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Qualitative Descriptive Analysis West, Liang & Spinazzola, International Journal of Stress Management. July, 2016.
Yoga for Adult Women with Chronic PTSD: A Long-Term Follow-Up Study Rhodes, Spinazzola, van der Kolk, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Vol.22(3), 2016.
Yoga as an Adjunctive Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial
van der Kolk, Stone, West, Rhodes, Emerson, Suvak, Spinazzola, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 75(6), 2014.
Claiming Peaceful Embodiment Through Yoga in the Aftermath of Trauma
Rhodes, Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, Vol.21(4), 2015.
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga as an Adjunct Mental Health Treatment in Group Therapy for Survivors of Domestic Violence: A Feasibility Study Clark, Lewis-Dmello, Anders, Parsons, Nguyen-Feng, Henn & Emerson, Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, Vol.20(3), 2014.
Application of Yoga in Residential Treatment of Traumatized Youth
Spinazzola, Rhodes, Emerson, Earle & Monroe, Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 2011, 17(6) 431-444.
Books
Trauma Sensitive Yoga in Therapy: Bringing the Body into Treatment by David Emerson, 2015
Overcoming Trauma through Yoga by David Emerson and Elizabeth Hopper, 2011
'Yoga an Adjunctive Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Conversation with David Emerson', Chapter 4. pg 43-52 in Yoga and Eating Disorders 2016
(Edited volume w/ a chapter by David Emerson and Elizabeth Hopper, 2014)
'Yoga for Complex Trauma' David Emerson & Elizabeth Hopper, Chapter 11. pg. 170-182 in Mindfulness Oriented Interventions for Trauma 2015.
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman, 1992
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, 2014
Other resources
For more resources on trauma, please visit the Trauma Center website here