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  title info:
    title: Writing for wellbeing
    sub title: theory, research and practice
  name:
    name part: Den Elzen, Katrin
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Lengelle, Reinekke
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 fourteen 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.
  note: edited by Katrin Den Elzen and Reinekke Lengelle.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Graphotherapy
  subject:
    topic: Well-being
  classification: PN171.P83 W75 2023
  classification: 808.0201/9
  identifier: 9781032163161
  identifier: 103216316X
  identifier: 9781032163147
  identifier: 1032163143
  identifier: 9781003248026
  identifier: 9781000886733
  identifier: 9781000886696
  identifier: 2022058852
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230424
    record change date: 20230929202409.8
    record identifier: in00004743246