Disclosing Trauma Through Writing: Testing the Meaning-Making Hypothesis

By Crystal L. Park, C. Blumberg. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Trauma-Informed Social Work Practice: Practice Considerations and Challenges (2015, background): “Techniques like writing, art, and other physical activities allow survivors to express feelings in alternative, non-verbal ways (Huss et al. 2012; Park and Blumberg 2002; Pifalo 2009).”
Empirical Study on the Healing Nature of Mandalas (2007, background): “Research has suggested (e.g., Esterling et al., 1999; Park & Blumberg, 2002; Pennebaker, 1997b) that the formation of a narrative incorporating the details of a traumatic event with the thoughts and emotions surrounding the experience can facilitate a cognitive integration of the experience.”
Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive writing (2005, background): “…health outcomes Expressive writing also produces longer-term benefits in self-reported health outcomes such as visits to the doctor (Cameron & Nicholls, 1998), physical symptoms (Park & Blumberg, 2002) and number of days out of role because of illness (Pennebaker & Beall, 1986; Smyth et al, 2001).”
Experimental disclosure and its moderators: a meta-analysis. (2006, background): “To investigate different avenues of explanation, Pennebaker et al. (1990) asked participants who had reported finding benefit in the expressive writing process to explain why they thought it was beneficial. An overwhelming majority of respondents did not talk of catharsis or a letting-go mechanism; ”
Gender Differences in Self-Reported Posttraumatic Growth: A Meta-Analysis (2010, background): “These measures adequately capture the construct of posttraumatic growth, have desirable psychometric properties, and have been employed extensively with a variety of populations (Park & Blumberg, 2002; Park et al., 1996; Tashiro & Frazier, 2003; Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996, 2004).”
ENHANCING PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CONTROL IN ACHIEVEMENT SETTINGS THROUGH WRITING-BASED ATTRIBUTIONAL RETRAINING (2006, background): “ing that writing–based treatments realize their effectiveness by fostering a cognitive reinterpretation of the perceived controllability of stressful events (Park & Blumberg, 2002).”