The broad, long-term objective of the current research is to improve substance abuse treatment for women through an innovative mind-body approach, 'Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy'(MABT). The MABT approach is designed to enhance embodiment and to facilitate mindfulness through the combination of massage, body awareness exercises and the acquisition of mindfulness skills. The treatment goals of MABT include reduction of avoidant coping responses, increase of emotional-regulation, and decrease of trauma symptoms through access to and acceptance (vs. avoidance) of sensory and emotional experience. These are thought to be important for relapse prevention given the positive association between stress, negative affect and relapse;and risk of relapse associated with PTSD symptoms.
The specific aims of the research are to: 1) to examine feasibility of recruitment to and retention in MABT as an adjunct to substance abuse treatment, 2) describe intervention acceptability, and 3) compare the effect of body-oriented therapy vs. treatment-as-usual on reported days abstinent for substance use in order to estimate effect size. The trial will involve a two-group repeated measures design in which participants are assigned to either the Treatment-as- Usual comparison group or the MABT experimental group, also receiving usual care. Both conditions will be compared at baseline, post-intervention, and at six and nine month follow-up. This study involves examination of the MABT intervention as a complement to treatment-as-usual within a comprehensive substance abuse treatment program for women. This research will contribute to a program of research in body-oriented therapy.
| Price, Cynthia; Smith-DiJulio, Kathleen (2016) Interoceptive Awareness Is Important for Relapse Prevention: Perceptions of Women Who Received Mindful Body Awareness in Substance Use Disorder Treatment. J Addict Nurs 27:32-8 |
| Price, Cynthia J; Herting, Jerald R (2013) Changes in post traumatic stress symptoms among women in substance use disorder treatment: the mediating role of bodily dissociation and emotion regulation. Subst Abuse 7:147-53 |
| Price, Cynthia J; Wells, Elizabeth A; Donovan, Dennis M et al. (2012) Mindful awareness in body-oriented therapy as an adjunct to women's substance use disorder treatment: a pilot feasibility study. J Subst Abuse Treat 43:94-107 |
| Price, Cynthia J; Wells, Elizabeth A; Donovan, Dennis M et al. (2012) Implementation and acceptability of Mindful Awareness in Body-oriented Therapy in women's substance use disorder treatment. J Altern Complement Med 18:454-62 |
