Expressive Writing: Counseling and Healthcare (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781475807738)

Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth, and skill-building. Therapists, coaches, healthcare professionals, and educators have known for decades that expressive writing is a powerful tool for better living, learning, and healing. But until now, few have had access to practical applications that have proven successful.
In this groundbreaking collection, you'll discover:

• how expressive writing can call us into healing community
• exciting new discoveries about how writing can support neuroplasticity and actually help change our brains--and thus our thinking and behavior
• new research on the role of expressive writing for prevention of compassion fatigue in RNs
• how transformative writing can create art from the ashes of trauma
• the role of journal writing for emotional balance
• sensible ideas about the synergy of expressive writing and play therapy for children, teens, and adults
• interventions and strategies for the use of expressive writing in acute psychiatric care
• how interactive expressive writing helps deaf teens communicate inarticulate feelings and thoughts
• how cancer survivors can use expressive writing to reclaim identity and strength post-treatment
• the role of expressive writing in developing the roots of resilience for practitioners

Author: Kate Thompson, Kathleen Adams
ISBN-10: 1475807732
ISBN-13: 9781475807738
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2015
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d