User talk:PolarBear10/Writing therapy

Hello! I am planning on editing the Writing Therapy Wiki page. I would like to expand upon the Pennebaker Paradigm, addressing the comment from a couple of years ago stating the the research reviews referenced are out of date. I am unsure if I will modify the current section, and rather add a new section. The section would likely be below the Pennebaker Paradigm, focusing on "clinical implication of expressive writing", with a sub-section on expressive writing specifically in cancer patient populations. It will contain references to more recent (within the last decade) reviews of research conducted on expressive writing. Narrative medicine may also be included in regards to writing therapy, however, Narrative Medicine has its own Wiki page, so this section will focus primarily on expressive writing. PolarBear10 (talk) 19:53, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi Trina! It looks like you have a great start to your contribution to the page! There’s a clear direction (clinical implications, focus on cancer patients) and you have many sources from Project 2 to support it. You’ve included a lot of reviews and meta-analyses, which is perfect, but it looks like there are a couple RCTs as well. I might be a little hesitant to include them just because of the Wiki trainings we’ve had so far that indicate that reviews and secondary are strongly preferred.LavenderSage19 (talk) 23:20, 28 March 2021 (UTC)