Siddharth Ashvin Shah is an American physician, public health scientist and educator from South Asia. In his work, Dr. Shah has incorporated disciplines that include preventive medicine, behavioral treatment, integrative medicine, humanitarian aid, East-West health systems, group psychology, trauma recovery and stress management research.
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Shah's major work has implemented a public health strategy that helps in dealing with disasters, terrorism, human misery and psychosocial trauma at local and global levels. He advocates education and prevention for the phenomenon of representative traumatization (closely related to secondary traumatic stress) - which is the adverse consequence of first responders, counselors and other caregiver experiences as a result of interactions with traumatized individuals. In line with preventing these undesirable consequences, Shah encourages endurance training, coping skills, change strategy and post-traumatic growth.
With his writing and his defense of ethnomedical competence, Shah is also a figure in the global health movement to provide cross-cultural psychosocial care without eroding local traditional capacity.
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Medical philosophy
Representative trauma, though not known by the general public, is an empirically recognized occupational hazard for service providers. As a leader in the prevention of fatigue, compassion, and trauma, Shah talks about positive occupational health psychology for aid workers, health care providers, psychotherapists, journalists, government agencies, humanitarian agencies, non-profit organizations and others. non-governmental organizations - anyone working at the front line of human suffering and suffering.
Dr. Shah provides a series of workshops for aid workers in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. He conducted similar programs for humanitarian aid workers and emergency responders after the 9/11 attacks in New York City, the 2002 Gujarat massacre in India, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, and the 2005 Earthquake in Kashmir. The company endorses its trauma and endurance, Greenleaf Integrative Strategies, LLC based in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb adjacent to Washington, DC.
In addition to offering healing strategies to crisis workers, Shah is a speaker and writer on integrative medicine. Shah has written about ethnomedic competence, which is a supplement to [or criticism of] cultural competence. He writes:
Synthesizing ethnomedic competence with his work on trauma, Shah also writes on integrative psychosocial resistance, where he describes how cross-cultural therapy, East-West should be mixed with standard care for lower side effects and greater benefits in cases of psychosocial difficulties..
Under the umbrella of endurance strategies for life's challenges, Dr. Shah is a recognized leader in yoga laughter, trauma-sensitive yoga and nidra yoga. She has released a series of fitness albums with production company Inner Splendor. Dr. Shah has also developed Bodhi Tree Mind-Body, which involves the education of practical religious studies for Yoga practitioners and Western Buddhists.
Shah has been listed as one of 15 Asian scientists watched by Asian Scientist Magazine on May 15, 2011.
Education
Dr. Shah received a degree in Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas in 1994. During his undergraduate studies, he spent as a visiting scholar at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. In addition to completing the prerequisites for medical school, he studied anthropology, ethics, Eastern and Western philosophy, fine arts, post-modern and post-structuralist theories, comparative mystique and world religions.
After graduating from college, he delayed his medical school admission for a year to pursue his interest in public service and social change movements. He spent this time (1994-95) in India to study humanitarian organizations and agents of social change. He is multilingual and speaks in Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, Spanish, and Portuguese.
He completed his medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 2000.
Dr. Shah then completed his apprenticeship in psychiatry at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas in June 2001. Here, he rotated units for the Pascatrauma Stress Disorder Treatment, Substance Abuse Treatment, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Geriatric Psychiatry, Emergency Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry. He is trained in the modalities of psychopharmacology, individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy and medical hypnosis.
He then served as Resident in Preventive and Behavioral Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. While at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he held several workshops and classes and provided conceptual and technical assistance to the Federal Project's Liberty Management Project and the Department of Health and Hygiene and also took a public health class specializing in Behavioral Medicine and obtained a master's degree in field of Public Health in 2003. He then received his specialist board certification in General Preventive Medicine.
Professional work
Dr. Shah established and served as executive director of Unlimited Psychosocial Aid from 2001 to 2007. In this charitable and service organization, he consolidated strategies to build psychosocial capacity to assist victims of complex emergencies while simultaneously preventing representative trauma to the workers themselves. Through the development of the ethnomedic competence principle, it also integrates locally available treatment with Western medicine. Along with Psychosocial Help without Borders, Shah also founded Greenleaf Integrative Strategies in 2002 for training and education.
Unlimited Psychosocial Aid is operated as a charity, and is funded by donations from individuals. Shah gradually began doing charity work under the auspices of other organizations. Thus he stopped the development of Psychosocial Support without Borders as a stand-alone non-profit organization, preferring to keep it as an intellectual platform.
Dr. Shah underwent private practice from 2003-2006 in New York City and 2006-2007 in Washington, DC. In practice, it applies an integrative health model that uses standard medical therapy, psychotherapy, behavioral treatment, medical hypnosis, meditation training, yoga, and other Eastern health systems.
In 2005, with a Red Cross grant, he served as a Mind/Body Practitioner at the Olive Wholeness Center in New York City, New York. The project involves psychotherapy, mind-body care and advanced relaxation techniques for uniformed personnel and first responders (New York Police and Fire Department and paramedics) with drug-resistant conditions traced to a 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Beginning in 2008, Dr. Shah devotes his time and full-time efforts in community health training and trauma prevention education through Greenleaf's Integrative Strategy. He has appeared on CNN-World and has been interviewed on public radio several times about his efforts.
Public works
Dr. Shah has conducted programs in Ethiopia, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the United States.
2001: Following a 9/11 terrorist attack, Shah provides a special psychosocial trauma service to communities (Arab, Muslim, South Asia, Sikh) influenced by counter-attacks and Islamophobia (hate crime and bigotry committed by people seeking retaliation against people - innocent people).
2002-2003: Shah travels to Gujarat, India, where religious violence causes atrocities and many victims of violence. He provides psychosocial training and trauma prevention to workers in various humanitarian organizations.
2004: Shah travels to Tsunami-affected Nagapattinam district in South India where he provides an education program on the prevention of traumatic representation to workers working with human remains, family reunion and rehabilitation of survivors.
2005: After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Shah goes to the Gulf Coast to consult with firefighters and rescue personnel on operational stress and representative trauma.
2005-2006: Following the devastation in Kashmir, Shah gathered teams and traveled to Pakistan where he conducted programs in Islamabad, Mansehra and Muzaffarabad to teach assistant workers there first aid psychosocial and preventative trauma prevention.
2006: Shah travels to South Asia to provide assistance to program tsunami workers in self-care, as Ethan Watters referenced in his 2010 publication.
2008: Under the aegis of Beyond Borders Psychology, Shah goes to Addis Ababa to provide training on psychological trauma and first aid to doctors, nurses, social workers and fistula care specialists.
2008-2009: After paramilitary attacks in Mumbai, Shah is invited by the Tata Institute for Social Sciences to provide a program to local doctors about psychosocial first aid and the prevention of traumatic trauma. He was also invited by the Times of India to teach journalists about trauma sensibilities and self-care. He, along with Dr. Grant Brenner of Disaster Psychiatry Outreach, was invited by the Bombay Psychiatric Society to deliver a psychiatric seminar on disaster to local psychiatrists.
In Washington, DC, Shah has worked with several organizations, including the World Doctor (serving survivor survivors), the Deshpande Foundation (philanthropic project in livelihood) and the Smith Farm Center for Healing & Art (health care for cancer patients). He is currently overseeing the implementation of the USAID program for the Civil Response Corps, where the Greenleaf Integrative Strategy is the prime contractor. This program, called "Operational Stress Control for Demanding Environments," involves pre-deployment stress intervention skills, during mission endurance training, and post-task health development component.
Family life
Shah was born in Houston, Texas on July 12, 1972. He attended DeBakey College for Health Professions in Houston, Texas. During the first twenty-eight years of his life, he was known by his childhood name Sunil. After medical school, he started using his official name Siddharth. She married Nisha Gautam from New Delhi, India, who holds a master's degree in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics.
His mother, Hema Shah, was born in Gujarat, India and grew up in the metropolitan city of Ahmedabad. His father, Ashvin Shah (born in Gujarat, India) grew up in Bhavnagar, and was a structural engineer and son of prominent Gujarat artist Somalal Shah (1905-1994). Shah has one sibling, Dr. Koonj Shah, who is a fellow in Pneumonia and Critical Care Care.
Publications
Articles
2010 Mental Health Emergency and Pascatrauma Stress Disorder. In G.B. Lime & amp; J.P. Smith (Eds.) Emergency Public Health: Readiness and Response (493-516). Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
2009 "Not to harm," Spiritual Care and Ethnomedical Competence: Four cases of Psychosocial Recovery for Tsunami 2004 and 2005 Earthquake in South Asia. In G.H. Brenner, D.H. Bush & amp; J. Moses (Eds.) Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience Integrating Care in Disaster Relief Work (pp. 157-178). New York: Routledge.
2008 "Can a Therapist Group Take Islamophobia?" Circle Group. The summer edition of 2008. The American Group Psychotherapy Association and the National Registry of Certified Group Psychotherapists.
2008 Overcoming Stress in National Staff. Monday's Developments: Current Issues and Trends in International Development and Humanitarian Aid. Vol. 26: 9, September 2008, p. 21-22.
2007 Ethnomedis Best Practices for International Psychosocial Efforts in Disaster and Trauma. In E. Tang & amp; J. Wilson (Eds.) Psychological Cross-Cultural Assessment of Trauma and PTSD (pp. 51-64). New York: Springer Verlag.
2007 Shah, S.A., Garland, E. & amp; Katz, C. Secondary Traumatic Stress: Prevalence for Humanitarian Relief Workers in India. Traumatology, 13, 59-70.
2006 Shah, S.A. Resistance to Cross-Cultural Psychosocial Efforts in Disasters and Trauma: Recommendations for Ethnomedical Competencies. The Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 2006-2.
2006 Shah, S.A., Reich J. Using the Literature to Teach Behavioral Medicine. Family Medicine, 38, 159.
Audio CD
2007 Sleep Help With Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah - Yoga Nidra and Guided Meditation
2008 Stress Remover With Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah - Guided Meditation and Yoga Nidra Relaxation
2008 Stres Relief Vol. II Experience Deeply Relaxation - Guided Meditation and Yoga Nidra with Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah
2008 Guided Meditation Using Self-Hypnosis Techniques and Yoga Nidra Relaxation for Weight Loss with Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah
2008 Experience of True Rest - Guided Meditation and Yoga Nidra Relaxation With Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah
2008 Mind Morning Practice, Guided Meditation and Yoga Nidra Relaxation with Dr. Ir. Siddharth Ashvin Shah
2008 Stress Management with Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah - Guided Meditation and Yoga Nidra for Relaxation in a Demanding Environment
2009 Learning the Silk Yoga Sutra: 25 Key Verses in Sanskrit and English Languages ​​
2009 Rest with Peace & amp; Manage Sleep Disorders Through Self-Hypnosis, Guided Meditation & amp; Yoga Nidra
2009 Stop Smoking Through Self-Hypnosis, Guided Meditation and Relaxing Nutra Yoga
2009 Getting Out of Unhealthy Habits Through Self-Hypnosis, Guiding Meditation and Yoga Nidra Relaxation
2009 Learn to Spell the Yoga Terms: Poses, Philosophy and Terms of Kirtan With a Proper Anatomical Pronunciation Guide
References
External links
- siddharthshah.com
- greenleaf-is.com
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