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
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Counseling and Healthcare
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781475807745
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter