Emotional disclosure as a therapeutic intervention in palliative care: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emotional disclosure (ED) is a term used to describe the therapeutic expression of emotion. ED underlies a variety of therapies aimed at improving well-being for various populations, including people with palliative-stage disease and their family carers. Systematic reviews of ED-based psychotherapy have largely focused on expressive writing as a way of generating ED. However, heterogeneity in intervention format and outcome measures has made it difficult to analyse efficacy. There is also debate about the mechanisms proposed to explain the potential effects of ED.We present a scoping review protocol to develop a taxonomy of ED-based interventions to identify and categorise the spectrum of interventions that could be classified under the umbrella term of 'emotional disc

SUBMITTER: McInnerney D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6720334 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature