Interacting with a friend after a trauma film reduces anxiety and intrusive memories.

Matthew J WoodwardJoshua D ClappSarah E CotneyJ Gayle Beck

Published in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2022)

Findings show the inclusion of a friend mitigated trauma-related stress reactions and suggest that interacting with a friend aided in adaptive processing of the stressor. Findings indicate that additional work is needed to examine how platonic relationships can be targeted to improve prevention and intervention efforts in trauma-related outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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