Effectiveness of Metaphorical Story Writing Therapy in Promoting College Students'Mental Health——A mixed study based on quasi-experiment and phenomenological analysis
Effectiveness of Metaphorical Story Writing Therapy in Promoting College Students'Mental Health——A mixed study based on quasi-experiment and phenomenological analysis
For the sake of college students'mental health as well as the localization of narra-tive therapy,metaphorical story writing therapy has been developed.A single-group pre-and post-test experiment was conducted on 29 college students treated with metaphorical sto-ry writing intervention.The effectiveness was assessed with the Self-rating Anxiety Scale and the Self-rating Depression Scale,and the texts produced by 5 of the 29 college students in different psychological conditions were explored with phenomenological analysis to gain in-sights into the course of change.The results show that anxiety and depression scores are sig-nificantly lower after the intervention.Clinical significance tests show that college students with symptoms of anxiety or depression recover by the respective rates of 40.0％and 66.7％.The change process can be divided into four stages:increased hope,full understanding of the event,forgiveness of oneself or others,and gaining new meaning.Metaphorical story writing therapy can effectively promote the college students'mental health,provides a new perspective for the localization of narrative therapy,and is also of great practical significance for enriching the techniques and methods of college mental health education.
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大学生心理健康教育/叙事治疗/隐喻故事书写疗法/心理健康改变历程
Key words
college mental health education/narrative therapy/metaphorical story writing therapy/mental health change process
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