Expressive Writing: Classroom and Community

· Rowman & Littlefield
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Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. Research shows that expressive writing can help in the development of emotional intelligence, better choice-making, and healthy coping skills.

In this remarkable collection, 11 experts from education and community service join to offer compelling guidance on applied practice. You’ll discover

  • a model for a poetry group for youth at risk;
  • how to help students develop inner resources through metaphor;
  • a “photovoice” project to help at-risk students stay in school;
  • how storytelling develops emotional intelligence in primary school children;
  • a method that helps teachers become more confident writers;
  • how expressive writing can help teachers manage stress and avoid burn-out;
  • expressive writing as change agent for communities;
  • the benefits and limitations of writing programs in prisons and jails;
  • hip-hop as “the pen of the people”;
  • finding a writing group; writing with others;
  • the ethics and standards of practice for expressive writing in the classroom and community;
  • guidance for all levels of learners: Primary, teens, college-age, adult; professional development, personal growth.

Whether you are a teacher, a counselor, a facilitator, or a writer you’ll find this volume an invaluable and innovative resource for expressive writing in the classroom and in the community.

Informazioni sull'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 author/editor of ten books on expressive writing and the series editor for the It’s Easy to W.R.I.T.E. Expressive Writing Series for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

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