Therapeutic Journal Writing

Author : Kate Thompson
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1843106906
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Therapeutic Journal Writing written by Kate Thompson and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book guides the reader through developing journal writing to use as a therapeutic tool. Keeping a journal can help the writer to develop a better understanding of themselves, their relationships and the world around them, as well as improve skills of problem-solving, decision-making and planning. As such, journal writing can be a powerful complement to verbal therapy, offering an effective and affordable way of extending support to troubled clients. The book includes advice on working with individuals, facilitating a therapeutic writing group, proposed clinical applications, practical techniques, useful journal prompts, exercises and case vignettes.

Author : Susan Borkin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393709582
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Healing Power of Writing: A Therapist's Guide to Using Journaling With Clients written by Susan Borkin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The healing benefits of writing can support traditional therapy. While much has been written about the physical and emotional benefits of writing, little has been written specifically for mental health professionals detailing how to use therapeutic journaling with their clients. Therapeutic journaling—any type of writing or related expressive process used for the purpose of psychological healing or growth—can be an extremely helpful adjunctive therapy. When integrated into an overall treatment plan, regardless of the therapist’s clinical orientation, journaling can become a dynamic tool for personal growth and healing. The first part of this book, “Journaling and the Clinical Process,” gives an overview of therapeutic journaling and the many potential benefits from its use. It provides concrete and specific steps for introducing journaling to psychotherapy clients and answers questions about structure and logistics. For example, engaging your client in writing a biographical statement will not only help focus the treatment plan but also provide a vast amount of background information. This section also introduces two very beneficial mnemonic devices to help clients focus and organize journaling between sessions. The next section, “Presenting Problems and Journaling Solutions,” addresses nine different diagnoses and explains specifically how therapeutic journaling can be integrated into the treatment plan of these diagnoses. Key diagnoses are covered: adjustment disorders, anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, couple and relationship issues, addictions, disordered eating, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The final part of the book, “Journaling Roadblocks and Building Blocks,” addresses potentially difficult, sticky, or challenging situations regarding journaling, such as possible resistance to therapeutic journaling, privacy issues, safe boundaries, and protection of client material. Importantly, it also reviews those circumstances in which it is best not to use therapeutic journaling or when journaling is contraindicated. The author offers a program designed for therapists for creating their own therapeutic journaling practice. The Healing Power of Writing is filled with case studies, step-by-step exercises, and clear and practical guidelines for mental health professionals who want to incorporate journaling into their clients’ treatment.

Author : Kate Thompson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475807740
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expressive Writing written by Kate Thompson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth, and skill-building. Therapists, coaches, healthcare professionals, and educators have known for decades that expressive writing is a powerful tool for better living, learning, and healing. But until now, few have had access to practical applications that have proven successful. In this groundbreaking collection, you’ll discover: how expressive writing can call us into healing community exciting new discoveries about how writing can support neuroplasticity and actually help change our brains—and thus our thinking and behavior new research on the role of expressive writing for prevention of compassion fatigue in RNs how transformative writing can create art from the ashes of trauma the role of journal writing for emotional balance sensible ideas about the synergy of expressive writing and play therapy for children, teens, and adults interventions and strategies for the use of expressive writing in acute psychiatric care how interactive expressive writing helps deaf teens communicate inarticulate feelings and thoughts how cancer survivors can use expressive writing to reclaim identity and strength post-treatment the role of expressive writing in developing the roots of resilience for practitioners

Author : Soneakqua White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781724103222
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Is Life written by Soneakqua White and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's nothing like having someone to talk to who will not judge or tell your secrets. Hopefully, you have a friend who can be that for you. If not, there's always therapy. But, there will be those times when you cannot reach either of them. When that happens you can reach for your journal! Writing out your thoughts and feelings can be a useful tool to ease symptoms of stress, tension, anxiety and depression. It can also aid in helping with effective communication with your therapist, friends and family. However, if you're unsure of what to say or how to begin, journaling can be difficult. So, here's your journal helpmate! This book includes 200 prompts to choose from. Some days will be easier than others for you to get what's in your head onto your paper. On those days, just jump right in and start writing. In those moments where you get stuck, just crack open your book and pick-a-prompt! This is in no way a replacement for talking things out, but it is an excellent positive coping mechanism to adopt. If reading is fundamental then Writing is Life!

Author : Soneakqua J. White
Publisher : Pen2pad Ink
ISBN 13 : 9781732209497
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Is Life written by Soneakqua J. White and published by Pen2pad Ink. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's nothing like having someone to talk to who will not judge or tell your secrets. Hopefully, you have a friend who can be that for you. If not, there's always therapy. But, there will be those times when you cannot reach either of them. When that happens you can reach for your journal! Writing out your thoughts and feelings can be a useful tool to ease symptoms of stress, tension, anxiety, and depression. It can also aid in helping with effective communication with your therapist, friends, and family. However, if you're unsure of what to say or how to begin, journaling can be difficult. So, here's your journal helpmate! This book includes 200 prompts to choose from. Some days will be easier than others for you to get what's in your head onto your paper. On those days, just jump right in and start writing. In those moments where you get stuck, just crack open your book and pick-a-prompt! This is in no way a replacement for talking things out, but it is an excellent positive coping mechanism to adopt. If reading is fundamental then Writing is Life!

Author : Kathleen Adams
Publisher : Sidran Traumatic Stress Ins
ISBN 13 : 9780962916427
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way of the Journal written by Kathleen Adams and published by Sidran Traumatic Stress Ins. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathleen Adams
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1475803168
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expressive Writing written by Kathleen Adams and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. For decades, it has been the province of journals, memoirs, poets, and language arts classrooms. Social science research now provides indisputable evidence that expressive writing is also healing.

Author : Gillie Bolton
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1853025992
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing written by Gillie Bolton and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing is a means of making sense of experience, and of arriving at a deeper understanding of the self. The use of creative writing therapeutically can complement verbal discussions, and offers a cost- and time-effective way of extending support to depressed or psychologically distressed patients. Suitable both for health-care professionals who wish to implement therapeutic writing with their patients, and for those wishing to start writing creatively in order to help themselves, The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing provides practical, well tried and tested suggestions for beginning to write and for developing writing further. It includes ideas for writing individually and for directing groups, and explores journal writing, poetry, fiction, autobiography and writing out trauma, with established writers and those who have taken up writing for private enjoyment.

Author : Latoya Nicole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal Therapy, Therapeutic Writing Workbook written by Latoya Nicole and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapeutic Journaling is writing about how we feel about life's experiences. When we leave things bottled up, such as being fired, a relationship ending, family betrayal, parenting woes, and the struggle to just be, it affects our physical health. Therapon Belief Therapist, Journal Therapist, and Certified Cognitive Behavior Coach LaToya Nicole wrote a transformative read, Journal Therapy, Therapeutic Writing Workbook, to help those who want to learn what journal therapy is and how to get started. In this self-improving workbook, LaToya teaches us how to use the gift of writing to organize our emotions. She provides journal prompts to start the healing journey and the benefits of journaling to our overall health. She has encountered mental, physical, and emotional abuse, battled depression, and is growing and walking in her purpose. While the storms seemed too challenging to overcome, LaToya proves we can write ourselves free. This enlightening workbook includes topics discussing: -What is journal therapy? -Benefits of Journaling. -How to use Journaling on your healing journey. -And more! You don't have to suffer in silence any longer. Your workbook is your safe space to say whatever you feel exactly how you feel without judgment. You do not have to fear; choose yourself today and put the pen on the paper.

Author : Lynda Monk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000402991
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformational Journaling for Coaches, Therapists, and Clients written by Lynda Monk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Transformational Journaling for Coaches, Therapists, and Clients: A Complete Guide to the Benefits of Personal Writing, more than 50 coaches, therapists, and journaling experts from around the world share their best practices and explain in detail how they use journaling to improve their work with clients. This edited collection brings together the leading voices of the journaling world into one ground-breaking volume, providing practical techniques and tools to use with clients. Applicable and accessible, over 50 journaling luminaries share their experiences and insights across eight sections, including the logic of journaling, techniques and applications, using journaling with clients, journaling in groups, journaling for mental health and wellness, growth and healing, spirituality, creativity, and more. Through theoretical and practical applications, it illustrates the transformational process of journaling in helping clients grow, heal, and achieve their goals. This book is essential reading for coaches, therapists, and other mental health professionals, as well as those interested in using personal writing for growth and self-awareness.