Group Writing Therapy and its Effects on Trauma Processing and Recovery

This Capstone project designed a 4-session workshop to explore an inexpensive option to help the trauma recovery process. The team partnered with the Singapore Association for Mental Health (SAMH), which provided a safety officer and materials on trauma and mental health, and The Youths are Rising (TYAR), who recruited 10 participants (youths with trauma) and provided materials on writing.

The workshop had volunteers as writing partners, who guided the participants through the chosen theme, ‘Shadows’. At the end of the four sessions, the participants produced prose or poetry works based on the theme. The Capstone team recorded and analysed the process to determine the effects of Group Writing Therapy on the participants.