Can Gratitude and Kindness Interventions Enhance Well-Being in a Clinical Sample?

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Gratitude and health: An updated review (2019, background): “Two-week gratitude or kindness journaling in a small randomized study among individuals on a waiting list for psychological treatment did not reduce levels of negative affect, although levels of anxiety were marginally reduced compared to the control group (Kerr et al., 2015).”
Integrating Positive and Clinical Psychology: Viewing Human Functioning as Continua from Positive to Negative Can Benefit Clinical Assessment, Interventions and Understandings of Resilience (2017, background): “Very limited evidence is available regarding the average wait for psychological services, but researchers from a range of countries suggest that delay in access is a problem (Kerr et al. 2014; Kowalewski et al. 2011; Nı́ Shiothcháin and Byrne 2009).”
Gratitude and Subjective Wellbeing: A Proposal of Two Causal Frameworks (2017, background): “However, Kerr et al. (2015) did not specifically measure whether changes in cognition were the mediating factor in these relationships.”
Gratitude predicts hope and happiness: A two-study assessment of traits and states (2019, background): “Drawing on work showing the value of gratitude writing with clinically distressed people waiting for their therapy to begin (Kerr et al., 2015), we suggest that the grateful remembering approach tested in the present study may have pre-therapeutic utility.”