How to Comfort a Friend Who is Hurting (Exactly What to Say)

This video teaches you simple techniques for how to comfort a friend who is hurting. It provides, specific, evidence-based advice about what to say to provide effective emotional support. If you want to know how to comfort someone, but you don't know exactly how, this video is for you.

Much of this advice comes from a paper written by the late Brant Burleson, who for may years was a professor of communication studies at Purdue University.