Qigong: An Effective Intervention on Positive Affect Traits for Forensic Mental Health Consumers.

Conclusions: Consumers in a forensic hospital responded positively to participating in Qigong groups. Strategies such as Qigong are interventions that mental health clinicians can use to promote positive feelings of personal relaxation, peacefulness, and safety. Qigong can promote positive affective traits for consumers in forensic hospitals. These positive affective traits can act as protective factors to inpatient aggression and violence. Forensic consumers report that Qigong is easy to learn and helpful for them in managing their frustrations. The findings from this study may add to the paucity of data discussing the use of Qigong with consumers as an effective relaxation intervention and possibly as an intervention in reducing negative affective states by promoting positive affective states, thereby reducing aggression and possible violence occurring within the forensic inpatient environment. PMID: 31370039 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Advances in Mind Body Medicine - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Adv Mind Body Med Source Type: research