Abstract
Can partner and group movement sessions be used to supplement traditional clinical and counseling approaches to mental health, specifically focused on social and emotional rehabilitation, and specifically with an interest in populations with social and generalized anxiety? My Fulbright research in Rio de Janeiro seeks to evaluate and quantify the psychological benefits of capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian movement art, for the purpose of developing movement-based psychological interventions targeting individuals’ empathy, self-efficacy, and state and social anxiety. Might participants show changes in these dimensions over the course of a semester of a cooperative movement intervention, and might those changes persevere even after participants are no longer participating in the activity? My lightning talk explores the purpose and implications of this research, as well as the adapting of a study when its environmental, cultural, and logistical context necessitates circumnavigating unanticipated hurdles.
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Theme
The Physiology, Kinesiology and Psychology of Wellness in its Social Context
KEYWORDS
Capoeira, Longitudinal Research, Intervention, Mental health, Exercise, Anxiety, Social Anxiety
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