Mental Journal Club created the Mental Journal to bring the most effective, impactful aspects - of the science-backed research in Mental’s seven developmental themes - to the writer. The journal bridges the gap between the research and the writer, empowering users with evidence-based tools for mental well-being and self-development. Access studies pertaining to each of mental's seven developmental themes below.

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• Putting Feelings Into Words
• Disclosure of traumas and psychosomatic processes
• How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain
• Opening Up - The Healing Powers of Expressing Emotion
• Chapter 15 - A review of the empirical evidence for DBT skills training as a stand-alone intervention
• The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook

• Mindfulness Interventions: Annual Review of Psychology
• The Impact of Mindfulness Journaling on Mindful Awareness, Motivation, and Aspirations of Doctoral Students
• Improving mindfulness through self-connection
• Outcomes of An Integrated Journaling and Mindfulness Program on A US University Campus
• Introducing Mindfulness to Clinical Psychologists in Training: An Experiential Course of Brief Exercises
• Teaching Mindfulness in Therapy
• What are the benefits of mindfulness - literature review
• Meditation and Mindfulness: What You Need To Know - Literature Review from National Institute of Health
• When Science Meets Mindfulness - Harvard Review

• Confronting a traumatic event: Toward an understanding of inhibition and disease
• A Preliminary Pilot Study Comparing Dialectical Behavior Therapy Emotion Regulation Skills with Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills and a Control Group Treatment
• The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
• Emotional Intelligence: The New Science of Interpersonal Effectiveness
• The role of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in enhancing the distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness

• Disclosure of traumas and immune function: Health implications for psychotherapy
• Writing About Emotional Experiences as a Therapeutic Process
• Natural emotion vocabularies as windows on distress and well-being
• Emotional Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness as Mechanisms of Change
• The therapeutic role of emotion regulation and coping strategies during a stand-alone DBT Skills training program

• Relationships between Flow, Self-Concept, Psychological Skills, and Performance
• Relationships between mindfulness, flow dispositions and mental skills adoption: A cluster analytic approach
• Journaling as an effective tool to promote metacognition and enhance study methods in a pharmacology course, during and after the pandemic
• The power of writing about procrastination: journaling as a tool for change
• The Neuroscience of Growth Mindset and Intrinsic Motivation
• Journaling Your Challenges
• Reflective Journaling: Building Bridges between Theory and Practice

• Mindful gratitude journaling: psychological distress, quality of life and suffering in advanced cancer: a randomized controlled trial
• Gratitude works! A twenty-one-day program for creating emotional prosperity
• How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves
• 'The Three Good Things' – The effects of gratitude practice on wellbeing: A randomised controlled trial
• When do people benefit from gratitude practice?
• The Cultivation of Pure Altruism via Gratitude: A Functional MRI Study of Change with Gratitude Practice

• Journaling and the Creative Writing Workshop in Counseling and Recovery of Adult Participants
• Visual Journaling as a Knowledge Creating Medium During Doctoral Research
• Creativity and mental health in everyday life
• Reflection enhances creativity: Beneficial effects of idea evaluation on idea generation
• Using creativity to encourage reflection in undergraduate education
• How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves

• Effects of narrowing visual attention on goal pursuit behavior
• Self-reflection, growth goals, and academic outcomes: A qualitative study
• How a Reflection Intervention Improves the Effect of Learning Goals on Performance Outcomes in a Complex Decision-Making Task
• An analysis of autobiographical tools in written reflection: implications for teaching critical thinking and goal-setting
• Goal Setting is Mind Setting: Guided Reflection on Life Goals Taps Into the Plasticity of Motivational Mindsets
• Beyond SMART? A new framework for goal setting
• The effect of multiple-goal strategies on performance outcomes in training and competition