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Title Creative writing in health and social care / edited by Fiona Sampson ; foreword by Christina Patterson
Published London ; New York : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Creative writing -- Therapeutic use
MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Occupational Therapy.
Creative writing -- Therapeutic use.
Kreatives Schreiben
Psychotherapie
Schreibtherapie
Bibliotherapie
Form Electronic book
Author Sampson, Fiona
LC no. 2004012457
ISBN 1423710363
9781423710363
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