Voicing the Body

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This qualitative narrative research explores the in-depth clinical cases of three young Hindu South Asian Indian immigrant women (two Indian Hindu, Punjabi and one Indian Hindu, Gujarati) living in a shelter for domestic violence in Canada, using a culturally modified clinical art therapy modality as part of their therapeutic process. These traumatized women of a different cultural/ethnic background from the host Canadian culture, originate from a society where mental health issues are highly stigmatized. Resistance to seek help outside of the extended family system or outside of the community is often an obstacle to seeking treatment. While the incidence of trauma is high in the South Asian community, modalities of treatment are limited. A clinical art therapy protocol developed for this research uses a 12 week program of individual audio-recorded sessions over a five month period, with a therapist of the same cultural/ethnic background as the women. These women are pre-diagnosed by m

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