The phrase "alleviating distress" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the act of reducing or relieving emotional or physical suffering.
Example: "The therapist focused on alleviating distress in her clients through various coping strategies."
Alternatives: "relieving suffering" or "reducing anxiety".
Psychotherapy may be useful in alleviating distress and helping the patient to cope with the effects of the illness.
Many mothers felt that beyond talking, the experience of 'purely getting out of the house' (participant 14) and changing surroundings was important for alleviating distress.
While integrating standard medical diagnostic evaluation, CGA emphasises problem solving, functional status, and prognosis with the aim of restoring independence and alleviating distress [ 12, 13].
UK, Australian and New Zealand acupuncturists also recognized the significant emotional toll of infertility treatments on patients, alleviating distress through CAM and patient support [ 23, 42, 43].
Yet, as the effects reflected changes on measures that are important to patients with advanced cancer, that is, alleviating distress or improving patient's (perceived) functioning in daily life, even small effects can be clinically significant.
Although hostile individuals were more likely to experience higher distress and engage in unhealthy behaviors, their spouses may counteract these damaging effects by providing instrumental and emotional support, alleviating distress, and curtailing high-risk behaviors (26).
Fostering rural-urban economic linkages; enhancing and diversifying rural employment opportunities, especially for women and youth; helping the poor to better manage risks through social protection; and leveraging remittances for investments in the rural sector can be effective strategies for improving livelihoods and alleviating distress-induced migration.
She signed up to alleviate distress and is now effectively being forced to spread it instead.
Colquhoun, a Glaswegian merchant and magistrate, had co-founded a soup kitchen in London that aimed to "alleviate distress" among working families.
A number of Protestant leaders took up social issues, seeking new ways to reach the urban poor and to alleviate distress.
Mr. Morrison said that the society was founded by 47 leading citizens of the town & its purpose was to alleviate distress among needy Scots of which there were more than enough in those days.
