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Cognitive-behavioural emotion writing tasks: a controlled trial of multiple processes
- Source :
- Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry. 39(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- We report on a controlled trial of three structured writing paradigms that engage the writer with cognitive-behavioural emotion-processes: exposure, devaluation, and benefit-finding. University students (N = 198) wrote once a week for three weeks about their most upsetting experience. The long-term effects of these structured writing procedures were compared to an unstructured emotion writing condition and control. Outcomes indicated that exposure writing sped the reduction of intrusive and avoidant symptoms, while benefit-finding writing increased reports of positive growth. Results suggest the use of these paradigms to study emotion-processing mechanisms and, potentially, in practice to enhance coping in process-specific ways.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Coping (psychology)
Writing
education
Emotions
Psychological therapy
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Outcome assessment
Models, Psychological
Developmental psychology
law.invention
Life Change Events
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Randomized controlled trial
law
Adaptation, Psychological
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Task Performance and Analysis
Humans
Students
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Follow up studies
Information processing
Cognition
Control Groups
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Psychological well-being
Female
Desensitization, Psychologic
Psychology
Stress, Psychological
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00057916
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4132614f6c2584507a5d0ab8b778d16e