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Study provides first evidence that mindfulness can help adolescents overcome traumas [medicalxpress.com]

 

By Christina Sáez, Photo: Kirill Balobanov/ Unsplash, MedicalXpress, January 23, 2023

In 2021 alone, it is estimated that one billion children around the world experienced some kind of violence or neglect, ranging from sexual to physical or emotional abuse. Such experiences during childhood represent a significant risk to children's physical and mental health and shorten their life expectancy.

In this regard, an international study in which the UOC has participated provides, for the first time, showing that carrying out a mindfulness-type meditation intervention, in combination with artistic expression activities and psychological therapy for trauma, is beneficial for adolescents who have suffered from traumatic experiences.

The results of this work, published on an open-source basis in Scientific Reports, show that this approach gives rise to in trauma-sensitive biological pathways associated with a significant reduction in post-traumatic stress symptoms. Given the risk of intergenerational transmission of abusive and cruel behavior, these results could represent a way of interrupting intergenerational cycles of suffering.

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Why does the USA remain a 'Non-Signatory Nation' to the United Nations Convention on Children's Rights ? ?

1988 U.S. Congressional Resolution #331 acknowledges the role of the Iroquois constitution in the development of our U.S. constitution. The Iroquois constitution called for "Generational Review" of their constitution - - which had reportedly given Women the Rights to: Assert, Debate, VOTE, and Declare War-beginning in 1150 A.D.-if I'm not 'mistaken' ? ? ?

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