Here we highlight the presentations and publications that have resulted from our studies.
- Protocol Manual for Expressive Writing with Cancer Caregivers, a manual for facilitators interested in using expressive writing with those who care for individuals with cancer, 2025.
- "The Story Within: Linguistic Tone, Cognitive Processing, and Narrative Arc across Group-Based Expressive Writing Sessions for Caregivers of Persons with Cancer," an ASU Honors Thesis by Madeline Hall, under the supervision of Shelby Langer and David W. Coon. April, 2025.
- "Words and Well-Being," a presentation sharing our findings about expressive writing and cancer caregivers shared at the Arizona Health Literacy Conference. September 2024.
- An earlier poster highlighting initial findings from our Expressive Writing Program for Caregivers of Persons With Cancer, shared as part of "Preventing and Controlling Cancer: Partnering to Understand Cancer Risk and Survivorship," at the Phoenix Bioscience Core, February 2024.
- A poster highlighting results of our Childsplay study on theatre-making with families of special-needs children, presented at the National Organization of Arts in Health, September 2023.
- "Arts as Rx" -- a presentation highlighting the work of three NEA Research Labs, ours plus the CORAL Colorado Resilience Arts Lab (CORAL and the Arts Research on Chronic Stress (ARCS) at Drexel University, April 2023.
- A presentation on our Childsplay study findings in the context of Creative Health Collaboration’s overall history, at the Colorado Arts Resiliency Lab in January 2023.
- An early presentation on how our collaborative framework works in the context of our Childsplay study with families whose children have medically complex conditions, at ASU’s 2021 Social Embeddedness Network Conference.
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