Writing Works: A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and ActivitiesVictoria Field, Gillie Bolton, Kate Thompson Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006 M08 15 - 256 páginas The use of creative writing as a route to personal development is a powerful therapeutic tool - a fact that is recognized in the growing numbers of workshops and writing groups within professional contexts, including clinical, health and criminal justice settings. |
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... centres. Anyone who cares about writing will find it rewarding. And anyone professionally concerned with the health – and mental health – of this country should be made to read it. 'One sheds one's sicknesses in books', as Lawrence said ...
... centres, hospitals, schools, colleges, hospices, prisons, substance abuse rehabilitation centres, family medicine centres, and homes. It is undertaken with people from all cultures, with those for whom English is a subsequent language ...
... centre, and then enrolled on my adult education 'Writing for Self-Discovery' course where her diagnosis was never disclosed nor an issue. Conversely, the closed nature of a therapy group means that participants who are sometimes ...
... Centre. The tables are arranged in a horseshoe shape and between 12 and 18 people are seated around them. There is a mixture of apprehension and excitement in the air. It is the first session of a ten-week course in 'Writing for Self ...
... centre in the middle of town, rather than on school or college premises. All of these issues will be addressed directly later in this first session when I introduce my aims for the course, its emphasis on 'process' and the fact that I ...
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Writing from Within | 139 |
APPENDIX 1 MAP OF THE BOOK
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APPENDIX 2 CLASSIC EXERCISES
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APPENDIX 3 USEFUL RESOURCES
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REFERENCES
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CONTRIBUTORS
| 245 |
SUBJECT INDEX
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AUTHOR INDEX
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