Objective: Written expression of traumatic experiences, an intervention found to have health
benefits in rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and breast cancer, was tested in a randomized …

Background: Expressive emotional writing has demonstrated efficacy for improving health
status in a wide variety of healthy persons and recently in patients with chronic disease …

Background: The presence and severity of the chronic pain syndrome fibromyalgia (FM) is
associated with unresolved stress and emotional regulation difficulties. Written emotional …

An intriguing question within the expressive writing literature is whether writing interventions
that focus on positive aspects of adverse experiences can produce health benefits …

The current study assessed main effects and moderators (including emotional
expressiveness, emotional processing, and ambivalence over emotional expression) of the …

Writing about traumatic, stressful or emotional events has been found to result in
improvements in both physical and psychological health, in non-clinical and clinical …

In a previous study, the authors found that structured writing about stressful events improved
symptomatology in 112 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and asthma relative to patients who …

This study tested the lower boundary of the dosage required to garner health benefits from
written emotional expression. Participants wrote about either a personal trauma, a positive …

Objectives. This study investigates the boundary conditions (feasibility, safety, and efficacy)
of an expressive writing intervention for individuals with post‐traumatic stress disorder …

This study examined the effects of expressive writing on depression, posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) and pain symptoms among women who have survived intimate partner …