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  1. Writing for wellbeing
    theory, research and practice
    Contributor: Den Elzen, Katrin (Herausgeber); Lengelle, Reinekke (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "Writing can support our wellbeing under the most difficult of life circumstances, helping us to adapt to significant change and to make sense of loss. Numerous Expressive Writing studies have confirmed this and methodologies for practice underpin... more

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    "Writing can support our wellbeing under the most difficult of life circumstances, helping us to adapt to significant change and to make sense of loss. Numerous Expressive Writing studies have confirmed this and methodologies for practice underpin its effectiveness. However, few detailed accounts have previously offered explanations of how and why putting pen to paper can be so beneficial. This book of 14 chapters enters the landscape of Writing-for-wellbeing: it demonstrates the transformative power of writing in a wide range of contexts. Topics include how two young widows used writing to foster post-traumatic growth, the empowerment and healing potential of Black women's blogs, playwriting exploring LGBTQ identities and queer belonging, how writing helps the newly literate give voice to their trauma in the Australian outback, and how the smuggled writing of Behrouz Boochani gave the world access to the voice of refugees held in offshore detention. This resource discusses the theory and research at the foundation of writing and poetry as a therapeutic and reconstructive practice. It aims to make the topic accessible and affirms its key place alongside visual arts and music-based therapies. This book contains individual and global perspectives, addressing at its core the ubiquitous nature of trauma in our culture and the potential for its reshaping. This volume is a holistic and inspiring resource for those who would use or teach Writing-for-wellbeing"--...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Den Elzen, Katrin (Herausgeber); Lengelle, Reinekke (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003248026; 1003248020; 9781000886696; 1000886697; 9781000886733; 1000886735
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    Subjects: Authorship; Graphotherapy; Well-being; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. Writing for Wellbeing
    Theory, Research, and Practice
    Author: Den Elzen, Katrin
    Published: 2023; ©2023
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Group, Milton

    Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes On Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Renarrating Trauma -- Writing-for-Wellbeing: Is It Self-Evident? -- The Model of Transformation... more

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    Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes On Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Renarrating Trauma -- Writing-for-Wellbeing: Is It Self-Evident? -- The Model of Transformation Through Writing -- The Chapters -- PART I: Voicing the Self -- PART II: The Pedagogy of Personal Trauma Narrative in Higher Education -- PART III: Participatory Research -- PART IV: Human Rights: Preserving Dignity and Writing-As-Resistance -- PART V: Voicing Identity -- References -- Part I Voicing the Self -- 1 When Your Partner Dies: A Conversation About Writing and Post-Traumatic Growth in Widowhood -- Introduction -- Two Widows -- Methodological Considerations -- The Dialogue -- Reflections On Our Post-Traumatic Growth -- How Can Writing Facilitate the Construction of PTG? -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 2 Poetry and Connection: Encounter, Surprise, and Dialogue -- Introduction -- Reinekke's Story -- Life Breaks Our Hearts Many Times -- Poetry Reassembles Us Larger -- Why Not Dare -- Jon's Story -- Poetry and the Science of Surprise -- Geri's Story -- My Lifelong Poetry Therapy Journey -- Close Encounters of the Poetry Kind: Our Three-Way Conversation About Each Other's Stories -- Poetry as a Space, a Place, a Room -- What Makes a Good Poem? -- Keats and Wordsworth -- Contraries, Tensions, and Juxtapositions -- Inner and Outer Acts of Listening and Dialogue: Poetry for Self and in Service -- Resources -- Further Reading -- References -- 3 "The Write Road" to Self-Discovery, Recovery, and Growth -- The Outstanding Mystery: Theorizing Writing-For-Wellbeing -- The Phenomenon, Unmasked -- The Body, Speaking for Itself -- Writing-for-Wellbeing: An Adequate Definition -- Quantifying the Wishing Well -- And What About the Newly Literate? -- Conclusion -- References.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Lengelle, Reinekke (MitwirkendeR)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781000886733
    Subjects: Authorship-Psychological aspects; Graphotherapy; Well-being; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (283 pages)
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