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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783598103321

Titolo

Creative writing in health and social care [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Fiona Sampson ; foreword by Christina Patterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004

ISBN

1-280-26219-2

9786610262199

1-4237-1036-3

1-84642-059-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SampsonFiona

Disciplina

615.8515

Soggetti

Creative writing - Therapeutic use

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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