Employment counseling and life stressors: coping through expressive writing
✍ Scribed by Barlow Soper; C. W. Von Bergen
- Book ID
- 102873446
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 665 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-0787
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✦ Synopsis
Job loss can be one of life's most traumatic experiences, especially if the unemployment is extended. In addition to more common interventions used by employment counselors and others dedicated to assisting clients in the search for work, it can be helpful to assist clients in expressing their negative feelings through writing. Expressive writing is a powerful technique used successfully to confront traumatic life events. Beneficial effects of expressive writing include understanding why feelings occur. Factors that favorably influence expressive writing and specific procedures for implementation in the employment counseling context are discussed.