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    The writing cure : how expressive writing promotes health and emotional well-being / edited by Stephen J. Lepore, Joshua M. Smyth.

    • Title:The writing cure : how expressive writing promotes health and emotional well-being / edited by Stephen J. Lepore, Joshua M. Smyth.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Lepore, Stephen J.
      Smyth, Joshua M.
    • Published/Created:Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, ©2002.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Diaries--Authorship--Psychological aspects.
      Diaries--Therapeutic use.
    • Edition:1st ed.
    • Description:xii, 313 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    • ISBN:1557989109
    • Contents:I. Introduction
      Ch. 1. Writing Cure: An Overview / Stephen J. Lepore and Joshua M. Smyth
      II. Writing and Adjustment to Life Stressors: Examples of Current Research
      Ch. 2. Expressive Writing and Blood Pressure / Karina Davidson, Amy R. Schwartz and David Sheffield / [et al.]
      Ch. 3. Emotional Expression, Expressive Writing, and Cancer / Annette L. Stanton and Sharon Danoff-Burg
      Ch. 4. Writing for Their Lives: Children's Narratives as Supports of Physical and Psychological Well-Being / Colette Daiute and Ellie Buteau
      Ch. 5. Effects of Written Emotional Disclosure Among Repressive and Alexithymic People / Mark A. Lumley, Tina M. Tojek and Debra J. Macklem
      III. Emotional, Cognitive, and Biological Processes
      Ch. 6. Expressive Writing and Health: Self-Regulation of Emotion-Related Experience, Physiology, and Behavior / Stephen J. Lepore, Melanie A. Greenberg and Michelle Bruno / [et al.]
      Ch. 7. Gain Without Pain? Expressive Writing and Self-Regulation / Laura A. King
      Ch. 8. Stress, Expressive Writing, and Working Memory / Kitty Klein
      Ch. 9. Emotional Expression and Health Changes: Can We Identify Biological Pathways? / Roger J. Booth and Keith J. Petrie
      Ch. 10. Cognitive Processing, Disclosure, and Health: Psychological and Physiological Mechanisms / Susan K. Lutgendorf and Philip Ullrich
      IV. New Directions in Clinical Applications of Expressive Writing
      Ch. 11. Translating Research Into Practice: Potential of Expressive Writing in the Field / Joshua M. Smyth and Delwyn Catley
      Ch. 12. Interapy: A Model for Therapeutic Writing Through the Internet / Alfred Lange, Mirjam Schoutrop and Bart Schrieken / [et al.]
      Ch. 13. Workbooks: Tools for the Expressive Writing Paradigm / Luciano L'Abate and Roy Kern
      Ch. 14. To Everything There Is a Season: A Written Expression Intervention for Closure at the End of Life / Carolyn E. Schwartz and Elizabeth David
      Epilogue: Writing, Social Processes, and Psychotherapy: From Past to Future / James W. Pennebaker.
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