Creative writing in health and social care / edited by Fiona Sampson ; foreword by Christina Patterson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sampson, Fiona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing--Therapeutic use.

Creative writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This unique and comprehensive 'map' of the topic of creative writing in health and social care brings together contributions from health and social care professionals and provides the information needed to teach, counsel and write. Principally exploring poetry and story writing and telling, case studies range from work with pre-literate children in post-war Macedonia to people with dementia in Britain. Complementing these insights, theory-based contributions provide context, comparing different arts therapies using psychoanalytic and phenomenological theories of art and ideas, assessing the va

Contents:

Cover; Creative Writing in Health and Social Care; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Editor's Introduction; Part One: The Range of Creative Writing in Health and Social Care; Introduction: A Writers' Field; 1 Communicating Existential Issues Through Reading Poetry: A project in a Swedish Hospice; 2 'It is Mine! It is Mine!' Writing and Dementia; 3 Mission Impossible: Storymaking with Young People Attending Integrated Clubs in Macedonia; 4 Writing as Therapeutic Practice: Students, Teachers, Writers; 5 A Case Study: The Kingfisher Project; Part Two: Thinking Through Practice

Introduction: A Provider's Experience6 Writing, Education and Therapy: Literature in the Training of Clinicians; 7 Fragile Space: Therapeutic Relationship and the Word; 8 Writing and Reflexivity: Training to Facilitate Writing for Personal Development; 9 Any-angled Light: Diversity and Inclusion Through Teaching Poetry in Health and Social Care; 10 Notes towards a Therapeutic Use of Creative Writing in Occupational Therapy; 11 E

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610262199

9781280262197

1280262192

9781423710363

1423710363

9781846420597

1846420598

OCLC:

191038984