TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lyon, D
AU  - Owen, S
AU  - Osborne, M
AU  - Blake, K
AU  - Andrades, B
Y2  - 2020/12/28
Y1  - 2020/12/16
SN  - 1179-8602
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/258489
AB  - This  article  investigates  how  the  combination  of  writing  therapy  and  embodied empowerment,  explored  through  the  physical  sport  of  non-contact  boxing,  can  facilitate  the recovery journeys of women survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and their move towards post-traumatic   growth.   It   uses   established   quantitative   psychological   measurements   and qualitative  analytical  approaches  to  examine  the  impact  of  an  eight-week  boxing  and  writing workshop for female survivors of CSA, called Left/Write//Hook (LWH), on participants’ recovery journeys. The hypothesis was that the LWH workshops would contribute to participants’ recovery and wellbeing. The article reports on the pilot study of the workshops as one aspect of an ongoing research project  around  LWH  which  uses  concurrent,  triangulation  mixed  methods  design  to gather and analyze  qualitative  audio-visual and creative-writing data produced by the  women, alongside quantitative psychological assessment data. The findings of qualitative analyses of the participants’ creative writing and the quantitative psychological assessments of the impact of the LWH  workshops  on  participants’  assertiveness,  post-traumatic   stress   disorder   symptoms, wellbeing, depression, anxiety and stress, along with preliminary findings of filmed material are presented  and  discussed  in  this  article.  The  findings  supported  the  hypothesis  that  the  LWH workshops helped facilitate participants’ recovery journeys and supported their wellbeing. This article offers preliminary support for the argument that the dual approach of written/verbal and embodied creativity can enhance the wellbeing of survivors of sexual abuse and trauma.
PB  - International Journal of Wellbeing
T1  - Left / Write // Hook: A mixed method study of a writing and boxing workshop for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and trauma
DO  - 10.5502/ijw.v10i5.1505
IS  - International Journal of Wellbeing
VL  - 10
IS  - 5
SP  - 64-82
L1  - /bitstream/handle/11343/258489/1505-Article%20Text-6091-1-10-20201216.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
ER  -