The benefits of positive expressive writing for psychological health and well-being depend on the particular approach and on individual differences, according to a systematic review published in the ...

Expressive writing, a structured intervention that encourages individuals to articulate their deepest thoughts and feelings, has attracted considerable scientific interest due to its potential to ...

Aug. 23, 2005 (Washington) -- The benefits of emotionally expressive writing assignments depend on the context of the assignment, according to researcher Louise Sundararajan, PhD, EdD, who presented ...

May 8, 2017 - For people going through a divorce, a technique called narrative expressive writing--not just writing about their emotions, but creating a meaningful narrative of their experience--may ...

Finding the right words to describe how one feels can be the first step toward recovery…as one University of Houston study found. Journaling can be cathartic in helping to make sense of traumatic ...

Previous research suggests that writing about stressful experiences results in better health and psychological well-being. In the present study, a multi-ethnic sample of 79 HIV-positive women and men ...

In an interview with CURE®, Dr. Lawrence An discusses how expressive writing can be a tool to reduce stress in patients with cancer. When dealing with a cancer diagnosis, an individual may find ...

Telehealth Personalized Cancer Risk Communication to Motivate Colonoscopy in Relatives of Patients With Colorectal Cancer: The Family CARE Randomized Controlled Trial Patients (N = 277) with stage I ...

If writing about the difficult parts of your life were a drug — called "expressive writing" in the literature — it would be making bank for some faceless pharmaceutical company. The guy who discovered ...

The unfolding Coronavirus epidemic is generating tremendous individual and societal anxiety, as reported in almost every newspaper in the world. Why wouldn't it? Paradoxically, this survival reaction ...

I have found that for some patients, speaking about their emotions is quite difficult, but writing about them is easier, and so I have introduced a form of writing into their treatment, expressive ...