The arts help veterans reintegrate.
Creative writing helps returning veterans with re-entry to civilian life. Veterans who participated in expressive writing experienced greater reductions in PTSD symptoms, distress, anger, physical complaints, and reintegration difficulty compared with veterans who did not write at all.
Sayer, N., Noorbaloochi, S., Frazier, P., Pennebaker, J., Orazem, R., Schnuff, P., et al. (2015, October 28). Randomized Controlled Trial of Online Expressive Writing to Address Readjustment Difficulties Among U.S. Afghanistan and Iraq War Veterans. PubMed.gov, 28(5): 381–390. Retrieved 19 February 2018 from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26467326
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