The psychological benefits of learning to write well about personal trauma.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780494163542
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects; English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects.; Creative writing -- Therapeutic use.; Autobiography -- Therapeutic use.; Narrative therapy.
Description: This research examines the psychological benefits incurred as a result producing well-written autobiographical narratives about personally traumatic events. Two participant groups were surveyed. A core group of five participants received a 10-week course in writing technique that used personal narratives as the vehicle of instruction. A second group consisted of survey responses from 10 former University of Toronto students who had taken the course after which the research course was modelled. All participants had written stories about personal trauma and all reported that they had obtained psychological benefits from the process of transforming traumatic events into well-written incident-based stories. Psychological benefits included healing, reframing, improved social perspective-taking skills and a better understanding of and compassion for self and others.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, page: 3001.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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