Expressive Writing - Foundations of Practice

Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. For decades, it has been the province of journals, memoirs, poets, and language arts classrooms. Social science research now provides indisputable evidence that expressive writing is also healing.

Sommario

Table of Contents
Series Editor Note
Foreword
Preface
1.Expression and Reflection: Toward a New Paradigm
of Expressive Writing
2. Finding Your Shoobeedoo
3. The Journal Ladder
4. Journal Writing in the Counseling Relationship
5. Liberating Beauty: The Hynes and Hynes-Berry
Bibliotherapy Model
6. Engaging the Reluctant Writer
7. Poetry and Emotional Intelligence
8. Writing with Teens at Risk
9. Writing the Family Story
About the Authors
Acknowledgments

Info autore

Kathleen Adams MA, LPC is one of the leading voices in the field of expressive and therapeutic writing. A psychotherapist and registered poetry/journal therapist, she founded the Center for Journal Therapy in 1988. She is the series editor for the It's Easy to W.R.I.T.E. Expressive Writing series for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Riassunto

Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. For decades, it has been the province of journals, memoirs, poets, and language arts classrooms. Social science research now provides indisputable evidence that expressive writing is also healing.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kathleen Adams
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 08.08.2013
• EAN: 9781475803112
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-0311-2
• Pagine: 160
• Serie: It's Easy to W.R.I.T.E. Expressive Writing; It's Easy to W.R.I.T.E. Expres; It's Easy to W.R.I.T.E. Expressive Writing
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