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Journaling


Definition: Promotion of writing as a means to provide opportunities to reflect upon and analyze past events, experiences, thoughts, and feelings


Activities:



• Discuss experiences with similar interventions and receptiveness to intervention


• Establish purpose and goals


• Explain various approaches to journaling and decide on a journaling technique (e.g., free flowing, topical, or intensive journaling)


• Determine a time frame to complete task


• Encourage writing without interruption at least 3 times a week for 20 minutes


• Ensure the environment is optimal for task completion (e.g., client is in a comfortable position, room is well lit, client has glasses)


• Minimize emotional, visual, audio, olfactory, and visceral distractions


• Maintain privacy and assure confidentiality


• Allow the person to select media and method (e.g., pen, pencil, marker, journal, computer, tape recorder, etc.)


• Gather all necessary supplies


• Instruct the person to date journal entries for future reference and reflection


• Encourage writing in the order that things occur without topic restrictions


• Encourage the describing and telling of events in terms of stories, images, and associated thoughts and feelings


• Describe experiences in terms of the five senses, as applicable


• Promote expressing deepest thoughts and feelings


• Instruct to pay no attention to punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, and/or grammar


• Determine ability to continue with intervention independently in the future


• Review journal entries at defined intervals


• Monitor achievement of the established goals

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