Creative Writing In Health And Social Care

by Sampson, Fiona

• ISBN13: 9781843101369
• ISBN10: 184310136X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY

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 value of creative writing in a healthcare setting, examining methods of training therapists and looking at the aims of creative writing in terms of self development. This holistic approach ensures that Creative Writing in Health and Social Care is an essential guide for health care professionals and others seeking to use creative writing in therapeutic settings.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 7
Foreword	p. 9
Editor's Introduction	p. 13
Introduction: A Writer's Field	p. 33
Communicating Existential Issues Through Reading Poetry: A Project in a Swedish Hospice	p. 38
'It is Mine! It is Mine!': Writing and Dementia	p. 53
Mission Impossible: Storymaking with Young People Attending Integrated Clubs in Macedonia	p. 70
Writing as Therapeutic Practice: Students, Teachers, Writers	p. 79
A Case Study: The Kingfisher Project	p. 92
Introduction: A Provider's Experience	p. 119
Writing, Education and Therapy: Literature in the Training of Clinicians	p. 124
Fragile Space: Therapeutic Relationship and the Word	p. 138
Writing and Reflexivity: Training to Facilitate Writing for Personal Development	p. 154
Any-angled Light: Diversity and Inclusion Through Teaching Poetry in Health and Social Care	p. 170
Notes towards a Therapeutic Use for Creative Writing in Occupational Therapy	p. 189
Evaluating Creative Writing in Health and Social Care Settings: Some Principles	p. 207
The Contributors	p. 228
Useful Addresses	p. 231
Subject Index	p. 232
Author Index	p. 239
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