Expressive writing and the role of alexythimia as a dispositional deficit in self-disclosure and psychological health

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Author's Abstract, COPYRIGHT 1999, American Psychological Association, Inc. Psychology students were randomly assigned to a condition in which they had to write for 20 min on 3 days or for 3 min on 1 day a factual descripton of disclosed traumas, undisclosed traumas, or recent social events. In the case of undisclosed traumatic events, intensive writing about these events showed a beneficial effect on affect and on the affective impact of remembering the event and appraisal. Participants who wrote briefly about an undisclosed traumatic event showed a more negative appraisal. Participants who wrote intensively about a traumatic event and had a dispositional deficit in self-disclosure, measured by a Toronto Alexithymia Scale subscale, showed a positive effect on self-reported measures of affect. Difficulty in describing feelings, an alexythimia dimension, correlated with psychological health problems, emotional inhibition, and a less introspective content of written essays about the emotional events.

Spain, Psychological aspects, Statistical Data Included, Stress (Physiology), Writing, Expression

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Social informatics: beyond technology

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The use of information technology (IT) in human services has seen a very slow progress, and its introduction in schools of social work ha been evenslower. The quality and quantity of work by the social workers will ultimately suffer, as presentation of figures on their work may not be easily possible. This could lead to a decrease in funding for needed services. Not being able to get information about clients will hamper services that do exist. The increasing demand for efficiency and effectiveness calls for faster introduction of IT in social services.

Social aspects, Information technology, Education, Social workers, Social services, Information storage and retrieval systems

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Trauma counseling: beyond the individual

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The way in which trauma should be viewed from a community perspective in addition to from an individual and family perspective is presented. The various approaches that can be combined and used to deal with trauma like trauma theory, family therapy theory and community family therapy are described.

Patient outcomes, Family psychotherapy, Family counseling, Post-traumatic stress disorder

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