A new therapy could help treat PTSD. All you need is a pen and paper.
A new study finds that a writing-based therapy achieves the same results as other PTSD treatments with fewer sessions.
The health benefits of therapeutic writing have been studied since the 1980s, but a new study from researchers at Boston University found that writing exposure therapy can be as effective as treatments recommended by the Department of Veterans Affairs to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
Reset talks with one of the study’s authors and local therapists to better understand writing-based therapies and how they work. We also dig into how and why you should make expressive writing a habit.
GUESTS: Denise Sloan, psychologist, associate director of the Behavioral Science Division of the National Center for PTSD; professor of psychiatry at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University
Beth Jacobs, licensed clinical psychologist, author of Writing for Emotional Balance
Bri McLaughlin, licensed clinical social worker
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A new therapy could help treat PTSD. All you need is a pen and paper.
A new study finds that a writing-based therapy achieves the same results as other PTSD treatments with fewer sessions.
The health benefits of therapeutic writing have been studied since the 1980s, but a new study from researchers at Boston University found that writing exposure therapy can be as effective as treatments recommended by the Department of Veterans Affairs to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
Reset talks with one of the study’s authors and local therapists to better understand writing-based therapies and how they work. We also dig into how and why you should make expressive writing a habit.
GUESTS: Denise Sloan, psychologist, associate director of the Behavioral Science Division of the National Center for PTSD; professor of psychiatry at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University
Beth Jacobs, licensed clinical psychologist, author of Writing for Emotional Balance
Bri McLaughlin, licensed clinical social worker