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About this book
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 communityexciting new discoveries about how writing can support neuroplasticity and actually help change our brains—and thus our thinking and behaviornew research on the role of expressive writing for prevention of compassion fatigue in RNshow transformative writing can create art from the ashes of traumathe role of journal writing for emotional balance sensible ideas about the synergy of expressive writing and play therapy for children, teens, and adultsinterventions and strategies for the use of expressive writing in acute psychiatric carehow interactive expressive writing helps deaf teens communicate inarticulate feelings and thoughtshow 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
In this groundbreaking collection, you'll discover:
how expressive writing can call us into healing communityexciting new discoveries about how writing can support neuroplasticity and actually help change our brains—and thus our thinking and behaviornew research on the role of expressive writing for prevention of compassion fatigue in RNshow transformative writing can create art from the ashes of traumathe role of journal writing for emotional balance sensible ideas about the synergy of expressive writing and play therapy for children, teens, and adultsinterventions and strategies for the use of expressive writing in acute psychiatric carehow interactive expressive writing helps deaf teens communicate inarticulate feelings and thoughtshow 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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Series Overview: About the It’s Easy to W.R.I.T.E. Expressive Writing Series
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I: Theory
- Chapter 1: In This Together
- Chapter 2: Your Brain on Ink
- Chapter 3: Expressive Writing for Caregiver Resilience
- Chapter 4: Writing the Darkness
- Chapter 5: Emotional Balance, the Journal, and the Therapy Session
- Part II: Practice
- Chapter 6: WOWSA!
- Chapter 7: Therapeutic Writing in Psychiatric Care
- Chapter 8: Now That I See
- Chapter 9: Roots of Resilience
- Chapter 10: Creating a New Story after Brain Injury
- Chapter 11: After the Deep Dive
- Epilogue
- Honoring Silence
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Acknowledgments