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 healthcare 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. CONTENTSForeword, Christina Patterson, Director of the Poetry Society. Editor's Introduction, Fiona Sampson, Oxford Brookes University. PART ONE: The Range of Creative Writing in Health and Social Care. Introduction: A Writer's Field, Paul Munden, National Association of Writers in Education. 1. Communicating Existential Issues through Reading Poetry: A Project in a Swedish Hospice, Inger Eriksson, Lund Hospice, Sweden. 2. ''It is Mine! It is Mine!'': Writing and Dementia, John Killick, University of Stirling. 3. ''Mission Impossible'': Storymaking with Disabled Children Attending Integrated Clubs in Macedonia, Aleksandar Prokopiev, University of Sts Cyril and Methodius, Skopje. 4. Writing as Therapeutic Practice: Students, Teachers, Writers, Maureen Freely, University of Warwick. 5. A Case Study: The Kingfisher Project, Graham Hartill, freelance practitioner; Jill Lowe and Catherine Sandbrook, Salisbury Arts Centre; Sam Moran, Upstarts; Sister Maria Purse, Salisbury Palliative Care; Emma Ryder-Richardson, Artscare; Fiona Sampson. PART TWO: Thinking Through Practice. Introduction: A Providers' Experience, Sue Stewart, Write2B. 6. Writing, Education and Therapy: Literature in the Training of Clinicians, Robin Downie, University of Glasgow. 7. Fragile Space: Therapeutic Relationship and the Word, Rose Flint, freelance practitioner. 8. Writing and Reflexivity: Training to Facilitate Writing for Personal Development, Celia Hunt, University of Sussex. 9. Any-angled Light: Diversity and Inclusion Through Teaching Poetry in Health and Social Care, Dominic Mcloughlin, LAPIDUS. 10. Notes Towards a Therapeutic Use for Creative Writing in Occupational Therapy, Nick Pollard, Doncaster South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust. 11. Evaluating Creative Writing in Health and Social Care: Some Principles, Fiona Sampson. References. Index
Foreword, Christina Patterson, Director of the Poetry Society. Editor's Introduction, Fiona Sampson, Oxford Brookes University. Part One: The Range of Creative Writing in Health and Social Care. Introduction: A Writer's Field, Paul Munden, National Association of Writers in Education. 1. Communicating Existential Issues through Reading Poetry: A Project in a Swedish Hospice, Inger Eriksson, Lund Hospice, Sweden. 2. ''It is Mine! It is Mine!'': Writing and Dementia, John Killick, University of Stirling. 3. ''Mission Impossible'': Storymaking with Disabled Children Attending Integrated Clubs in Macedonia, Aleksandar Prokopiev, University of Sts Cyril and Methodius, Skopje. 4. Writing as Therapeutic Practice: Students, Teachers, Writers, Maureen Freely, University of Warwick. 5. A Case Study: The Kingfisher Project, Graham Hartill, freelance practitioner; Jill Lowe and Catherine Sandbrook, Salisbury Arts Centre; Sam Moran, Upstarts; Sister Maria Purse, Salisbury Palliative Care; Emma Ryder-Richardson, Artscare; Fiona Sampson. Part Two: Thinking; Through Practice. Introduction: A Providers' Experience, Sue Stewart, Write2B. 6. Writing, Education and Therapy: Literature in the Training of Clinicians, Robin Downie, University of Glasgow. 7. Fragile Space: Therapeutic Relationship and the Word, Rose Flint, freelance practitioner. 8. Writing and Reflexivity: Training to Facilitate Writing for Personal Development, Celia Hunt, University of Sussex. 9. Any-angled Light: Diversity and Inclusion Through Teaching Poetry in Health and Social Care, Dominic Mcloughlin, LAPIDUS. 10. Notes Towards a Therapeutic Use for Creative Writing in Occupational Therapy, Nick Pollard, Doncaster South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust. 11. Evaluating Creative Writing in Health and Social Care: Some Principles, Fiona Sampson. References. Index.
'Creative Writing in Health and Social Care is full of experience of working with patients with dementia, hospital, hospice and occupational therapy patients, and those in primary care. This is innovative work - deeply helpful to the patients, illuminatively described.' - The British Journal of General Practice
