BACKGROUND Although women with substance use disorders (SUDs) have high rates of trauma and posttraumatic stress, many addiction programs do not offer trauma-specific treatments. One promising intervention is Pennebaker's expressive writing, which involves daily, 20-minute writing sessions to facilitate disclosure of stressful experiences. METHODS Women (N = 149) in residential treatment comp...

Interoceptive exposure (IE) is an effective procedure for reducing anxiety sensitivity (AS) and the symptoms of panic disorder. However, considerable variance exists in how IE is delivered among clinicians, and the extent to which IE is enhanced by the concurrent use of cognitive reappraisal (CR) and diaphragmatic breathing (DB) is unclear. Participants (N 5 58) with high AS were randomly assig...

Interoceptive exposure (IE) is an effective procedure for reducing anxiety sensitivity (AS) and the symptoms of panic disorder. However, considerable variance exists in how IE is delivered among clinicians, and the extent to which IE is enhanced by the concurrent use of cognitive restructuring (CR) and diaphragmatic breathing (DB) is unclear. Participants (N = 58) with high AS were randomly ass...

Computational thinking (CT) skills are now a key part of everyday life and work, CT has been incorporated into K-12 curricula worldwide. Combining the fundamental concepts with English writing constitutes an innovative sustainable learning strategy. However, few academic studies have examined incorporation writing. frequently generates excessive stress anxiety among students, yet motivation can...

We examined the effect of disclosing to others an attempted or completed rape. Eighty-five undergraduate women who acknowledged attempted or completed rape wrote about their experience and read their narratives. In a 2 x 2 design, we examined the value of writing only factual information versus factual plus emotional information, and reading to oneself versus reading aloud to another woman. Bef...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Iranian EFL Learners’ perfectionism and writing anxiety their performance in IELTS Writing Module. To this end, sixty-eight learners were selected via convenience sampling. Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale developed validated by Hewitt Flett (1991) Second Language Anxiety Inventory devised Cheng (2004) administered participants. The p...