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Attention to the body! Comparing the connection between interoceptive abilities...
Machorrinho, Joana; Marmeleira, José; Duarte Santos, Graça; Veiga, GuidaSomatic complaints are a critical burden to women, particularly to those women who survived intimate partner violence (IPV). The way women feel, perceive, and relate to their own body, that is, interoception, seems to have a significant role in the pathway to somatic complaints. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has yet explored the relationship between interoception and somatic complaints of wome...
Professional development of creative arts therapists: Foundations, experiences ...
Machorrinho, Joana; Luana, Prado; Duarte Santos, GraçaCreative arts therapists are interdisciplinary professionals with diverse backgrounds and fields of intervention, required to be experts at integrating expressive-creative processes with the therapeutic process. Due to the complexity and duality of this work, and the multiple influences they experience, the professional identity of creative arts therapists has been under discussion, mainly in countries where th...
Creative Health: a scoping review of existing resources in Portugal and Spain
Varela-Silva, Ines; Machorrinho, Joana; Santos, Graça DuarteIntroduction: Creative Health is an innovative approach that acknowledges the positive impact of creativity, culture, and heritage on health and wellbeing. Activities encompass a diverse range, including crafts, music, dance, film, literature, visual and digital arts, and theatre, as well as natural-built or intangible heritage. This approach is grounded in the growing evidence supporting the beneficial effects...
Effects of Feel-Own-Move program on the experience of the body, sleep quality a...
Machorrinho, Joana; Duarte Santos, Graça; Veiga, Guida; Marmeleira, JoséObjective: Women victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) tend to experience their bodies as heavy, slow or anxious. As a result of trauma, they also feel disconnected from their body. To promote healthy bodily experiences is both a therapeutic and a social need in the field of IPV. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of Feel-Own-Move (FOM) on the experience of the body, physical activity (PA), s...
Feel-Own-Move: a psychomotor therapy program for victims of intimate partner vi...
Machorrinho, Joana; Marmeleira, José; Veiga, Guida; Duarte Santos, GraçaIntroduction: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a worldwide concern, impacting victims’ mental health, physical health, and quality of life. High rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, bodily dissociation, and somatic symptoms have been found in victims of IPV, with an important impact on the chronicity of impairments and on the outcomes of psychological interventions. Therapeutic ...
Echoes of a living body: A mind-body approach on how women victims of intimate ...
Machorrinho, Joana; Veiga, Guida; Marmeleira, José; Duarte Santos, GraçaIntimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a worldwide health problem. IPV impact on women’s embodiment remains embedded in their narratives. However, the subjective complexity of victims’ embodiment and its impact on healthcare still urges to be understood. We aimed to understand (i) how women victims of IPV experience their bodies and (ii) the impact of IPV in their embodiment. From a thematic analysis ...
Hybrid Feel-Own-Move®: Protocol for an effectiveness-implementation study of a ...
Machorrinho, Joana; Veiga, Guida; Marmeleira, José; Scheffers, Mia; Santos, Graça DuarteBackground: Domestic violence is a public health concern, impacting the health and well-being of women and children globally. Shelter homes are one of the support services for victims' recovery, although providing holistic healthcare in this setting remains a struggle. Feel-Own-Move® (FOM) is an evidence-based psychomotor intervention designed to help women who have experienced domestic violence reconnect with ...
Battered Body, Battered Self: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Embodiment-Related...
Machorrinho, Joana; Veiga, Guida; Santos, Graça; Marmeleira, JoséIntimate-partner violence (IPV) is a major threat to women’s lives, with an impact on their physical and mental health, often causing trauma symptoms. The IPV consequences for embodiment-related features that are detrimental to the quality of life and identity structure of victims are understudied. With this study, we aim to examine embodiment-related functions and physical and mental health of women with and w...
Psychomotor intervention in intimate partner violence: Empirical support for pr...
Marmeleira, José; Machorrinho, Joana; Duarte Santos, Graça; Veiga, GuidaIntimate Partner Violence negatively impacts both the physical and mental health of victims. General impairments include chronic pain, posttraumatic stress, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, and eating disorders (WHO, 2021). There is growing evidence of the effectiveness of body-oriented interventions on most of those symptoms, namely through the work of interoception, (Weng et al., 2021) bodily awareness (...
Body ownership of women with and without history of intimate partner violence
Machorrinho, Joana; Veiga, Guida; Santos, Graça; Marmeleira, JoséThe aims of the present study were: (i) to compare the sense of body ownership between women with and without a history of IPV (ii) to analyze the relationships between body ownership and mental health variables (e.g., behaviors of self-injury, suicidal ideation, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Anxiety or Depression diagnoses). The RHI protocol (Rabellino et al., 2016) was administered to twenty-seven...