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Angheluta, Anne-Marie; Lee, Bonnie K. – Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2011
Chronic pain is acknowledged as a phenomenological experience resulting from biological, psychological, and social interactions. Consequently, treatment for this complex and debilitating health phenomenon is often approached from multidisciplinary and biopsychosocial perspectives. One approach to treating chronic pain involves implementing…
Descriptors: Pain, Art Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Psychology
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Saltzman, Kasey M.; Holden, George W.; Holahan, Charles J. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2005
We examined the psychological and physiological functioning of a community sample of children exposed to marital violence, comparing them to a clinical comparison group without marital violence exposure. Results replicated past findings of elevated levels of trauma symptomatology in this population. Further, children exposed to marital violence…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Anatomy, Family Violence, Marital Instability
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Sloan, Denise M.; Marx, Brian P. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004
The current study examined psychological and physical health outcomes of the written disclosure paradigm and the hypothesis that the principles of therapeutic exposure account for the beneficial effects of the paradigm. Participants were randomly assigned to either a written disclosure condition or a control condition. Reactivity to the writing…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Physical Health, Well Being, Emotional Response
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Allen, Roger J. – Journal of School Health, 1981
A study evaluated the biomedical and psychometric efficacy of a University of Maryland program, "Controlling Stress and Tension". Results indicate that the program is having a positive effect on human health through stress management. (JN)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Biomedicine, Emotional Disturbances, Health Education
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Etherington, Kim – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2005
This paper is based on a study of how childhood trauma can be experienced in the body and the resources individuals have chosen to deal with that. Ten individuals (including myself) wrote stories showing how they had made sense of those experiences and found ways to heal. In this paper, I tell the story of that research, contextualising myself as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Abuse, Psychosomatic Disorders, Psychophysiology