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 health care 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.
Author(s): Fiona Sampson
Edition: 1
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 240
Cover......Page 1
Creative Writing in Health and Social Care......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Editor’s Introduction......Page 15
Part One: The Range of Creative Writing in Health and Social Care......Page 33
Introduction: A Writers’ Field......Page 35
1 Communicating Existential Issues Through Reading Poetry: A project in a Swedish Hospice......Page 40
2 ‘It is Mine! It is Mine!’ Writing and Dementia......Page 55
3 Mission Impossible: Storymaking with Young People Attending Integrated Clubs in Macedonia......Page 72
4 Writing as Therapeutic Practice: Students, Teachers, Writers......Page 81
5 A Case Study: The Kingfisher Project......Page 94
Part Two: Thinking Through Practice......Page 119
Introduction: A Provider’s Experience......Page 121
6 Writing, Education and Therapy: Literature in the Training of Clinicians......Page 126
7 Fragile Space: Therapeutic Realtionship and the Word......Page 140
8 Writing and Reflexivity: Training to Facilitate Writing for Personal Devlopment......Page 156
9 Any-angled Light: Diversity and Inclusion Through Teaching Poetry in Health and Social Care......Page 172
10 Notes towards a Therapeutic Use of Creative Writing in Occupational Therapy......Page 191
11 Evaluating Creative Writing in Health and Social Care Settings: Some Principles......Page 209
The Contributors......Page 230
Useful Addresses......Page 233
Subject Index......Page 234
Author Index......Page 241
