Expressive Writing: Counseling and Healthcare

Kate Thompson · Kathleen Adams

2015年8月 · 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. 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

著者について

Kate Thompson, MA, CJT, is an existential counselor, journal therapist and writer. She pioneered the use of therapeutic writing in counseling and supervision in the UK. She now lives in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

Kathleen Adams, MA, LPC, is psychotherapist, journal therapist, and international thought leader in the field of expressive/ therapeutic writing. She is the director of the Center for Journal Therapy and its online professional training division, the Therapeutic Writing Institute, in Denver. This is her eleventh book.