Kirsimarja Alatalo

Publications

• Mini Review   
  Traumatic Experiences can be Distanced by Narrative Means
  Author(s): Kirsimarja Alatalo*
  
  This pilot study found out how distancing traumatic experiences through writing and narrative means can promote people's psychological well-being and help to let go of traumatic memories. Chose 12 writers of different ages from the contacts to the writing group based on the newspaper announcement. The selection criteria used were: a) the opportunity to commit to the group for its entire duration, b) previous experience as a writer and c) life-impairing trauma for which you wanted help. The meetings used writing, reading the written texts aloud and discussing the written texts. Received qualitative information about the improvement of the authors' well-being and the primary result was increased resources. The authors reported that their psychological and social well-being improved, their strong emotional outbursts and depression decreased and their social activity increased sig.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.3371/CSRP.AMOS.100006

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