http://clarkhill.org/taxonomy/term/2/9 en http://clarkhill.org/node/23 <p>The Expressive Writing Study is an intervention designed for middle-school youth exposed to community violence.  The intervention is based on an integrative model developed by Steve Lepore and colleagues.  According to this model, writing about traumatic or stressful events can facilitate self-regulation, mainly through enhanced regulation of emotions. The model begins with the observation that dysregulated emotion—either excessively controlled or excessively uncontrolled emotion—is associated with poorer health outcomes, and expressive writing confers health benefits by regulating extreme emotional responses. Specifically, expressive writing regulates emotions by directing attention, promoting habituation or desensitization to distressing traumatic stimuli, and promoting cognitive reappraisals of the traumatic event. Each of these regulatory processes can have a positive impact on emotional responses in three channels: subjective, physiological, and behavioral. </p> <br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://clarkhill.org/node/23">read more</a></p> http://clarkhill.org/node/23#comment Expressive Writing Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:38:28 -0800 Wendy Kliewer 23 at http://clarkhill.org