ABSTRACT Story Emotion Social Therapy, a new interdisciplinary mental health and speech-language pathology framework, is based upon the healing power of words. This framework is designed to complement varied interprofessional therapeutic approaches to meet the complexity of human needs. Cognitive behavioral therapy and story grammar bridge the disciplines, and is supported by emotional intelligence

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to look into the impact of poetry therapy program on personal and social performance as well as self-esteem in patients with mental illnesses (schizophrenia and bipolar syndrome). The research is an experimental study that employs pretest and posttest models. It was conducted with follow-up patients at the Community Mental Health Center (CMHC), between 8 February

Published in Journal of Poetry Therapy: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Practice, Theory, Research and Education (Ahead of Print, 2022)

ABSTRACT The present paper analyses the therapeutic power of poetry in the form of poetic epiphanies and epiphanic knowledge in medicine, in two illness narratives of Ian McEwan. The first novel Saturday deals with a patient suffering from Huntington’s disease. The second novel The Children Act deals with a leukemia patient. Both of these novels show how literary and creative art forms like poetry

ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of interaction with metaphors on a measure of creative potential: ideational fluency. For this purpose, 150 Mexican college students were selected. They were assigned to two experimental conditions (major and minor interaction with metaphors) and a control group. The CREA Creative Intelligence Test was used as a measure of ideational fluency and two instruments

Published in Journal of Poetry Therapy: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Practice, Theory, Research and Education (Ahead of Print, 2022)

ABSTRACT Narration is a tool to organize experience into a coherent vision that explains our identity. According to Paul Ricoeur, fictional characters and real people’s identities are made out of the use of discourse. The tradition of narrative therapy states the importance of the use of letters, notes, and certificates to strengthen the alternative stories that are co-built with the person in the

Published in Journal of Poetry Therapy: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Practice, Theory, Research and Education (Ahead of Print, 2022)

ABSTRACT This case study shares the history and treatment of a poet who struggled with multiple sclerosis for over 20 years, and how a clinical social worker and registered poetry/drama therapist continued to work with a person whose writing and speaking capacity progressively diminished. Poetry therapy, drama therapy, family therapy and individual therapy were all used to maintain the core identity

ABSTRACT This paper concerns the book Tribute to Freud, by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) (1886–1961). In the book, H.D. – an important person in the modernist poetry scene – presents her psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). She describes how literature, sculptures, mythology, and symbols were central to their dialogues. I have analysed these dialogues with respect to the three components of poetry

ABSTRACT The gold standard for medical decision-making in pediatrics involves determining the “best interests” of the child and making the decisions accordingly. Accurately assessing the ethical concerns of children can assist care providers, such as parents, clinicians, and other healthcare professionals, in making care and discharge planning relevant to and reflective of what children need to flourish

(2022). Dissertation Abstracts. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 135-139.

ABSTRACT Using a metaphor of welcome, respite, and healing – a storm home – readers will be encouraged to consider variations of the metaphor for grief and bereavement care. Limited commentary, research or theory are offered for this practice-focused article so that readers can simply ponder bibliotherapeutic practices for the care of others facing personal, familial or community losses. Think of this

ABSTRACT There had been a great deal of concern about lack of interest with poor attitude and behaviour being exhibited towards reading by secondary school students. This study examined bibliotherapy – the use of books to heal as a remedy for tackling aliteracy among secondary school students in Ilesa, Southwest, Nigeria. Pre-test–post-test control group quasi-experimental design was used and the data

(2022). Dissertation Abstracts. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 63-68.

(2022). Hold on/let go. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 133-133.

ABSTRACT Throughout human history, poetry has enjoyed a coveted place at the high table among tools to communicate one's feelings. Now, poetry writing is considered a useful method to teach sophisticated affective skills like empathy. Empathy has been found to decrease in medical students as they progress through the medical school. SSeveral reviews and studies in past have revealed that empathy training

(2022). The blue dragonfly: healing through poetry. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 131-132.

(2022). Finished. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 134-134.

(2022). Long Shadows of Practice: Poems. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 55-56.

(2022). Poetry. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 57-60.

(2022). A sentimental locked ward poem. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 61-62.

ABSTRACT While scholarship suggests Black and Brown youth disproportionately experience stressors that can disrupt cognitive and emotional regulatory processes, the recognize the resilience and innovation that Black and Brown youth have demonstrated amidst exposure to systemic stressors. Given this reality, school counselors are responsible for adopting strategies that center Black and Brown youth’s

ABSTRACT This article presents the core ideas of bibliotherapy as an integrative psychotherapeutic channel, exploring the ways in which it integrates new meanings into psychotherapeutic modalities, concepts, and principles. The unique aspect of the bibliotherapeutic relationship is that it is based on a triangular mode of therapist-text-patient. It supplements this with the creative processes of reading

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate whether and in what respects creative interactive bibliotherapy can affect the mental and social well-being of women with postpartum mental illness. Four women with mental illness after childbirth read and discussed fiction in a reading circle for ten weeks, under the guidance of a licensed psychologist. The participants were observed during the

ABSTRACT The death of a loved one can create a tear in the fabric of meaning. Grieving involves remaking meaning. In therapy, events can be emplotted into stories, which can return some sense of coherence to the bereaved. In this paper, I present a way of narrating loss through a narrative therapy approach of retelling. This involved writing found poems, known as rescued speech poems, from the conversations

ABSTRACT Poetry therapy research is examined in a clinical, community and developmental setting, where the various researchers conducted their study from a medical model perspective of disability. The author looked at twelve articles and analysed nine of them from the social model perspective of disability. It was found that people with disabilities are excluded from poetry therapy research. As such

ABSTRACT While Dr. Joseph Lister was beginning to implement his practices of sterile surgery and antiseptic treatment, William Ernest Henley, the poet who would become the model for Long John Silver, was fighting to retain his remaining leg from amputation under Lister’s care, and encouraging his recovery by writing poetry. The poems he wrote both describe the practices of Lister, and are influenced

(2021). Dissertation Abstracts. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 208-212.

(2021). Write a Poem, Save Your Life: A Guide for Teens, Teachers, and Writers of All Ages. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 268-269.

(2021). A meaningful path. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 267-267.

ABSTRACT In July 2013, I lost my father to a drug overdose. He was 45 years old and had been using cocaine and prescription painkillers for as long as I could remember. My debut poetry collection, More than you were (2017), was written as a way to cope with, explore and represent the impact of addiction on my family as well as consider how loving and losing an addict parent led me to experience disenfranchised

ABSTRACT This article concerns the therapeutic potential of metaphor in group poetry therapy, concentrating on the poetry therapy process of people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The data was collected in a one-year poetry therapy group. The main questions were: (1) What kind of therapeutic potential can metaphors offer in group poetry therapy? (2) What are the personal meanings and evaluations that

(2021). Calcutta, Crow and other fragments. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 270-273.

ABSTRACT Creative writing is a known valuable aid for reflection on one’s life and involves the human being in a holistic way. This article has a caring science perspective and focuses on the understanding of life when creative writing is used to tackle unforeseen change. The unsolicited narratives of three authors were analysed in a study. The included texts were published autobiographical works and

ABSTRACT The article is a reading of an educational initiative from the late 1960s through the lens of Jacques Derrida’s différance. Students of a school in Germany performed Peter Handke’s poem Weissagung (Prophecy) on the school’s anniversary, initiating an ongoing process of decoding and recoding the word (“prophecy”) and the(ir) social (world), as well as tracing alternatives to the hegemony of

ABSTRACT During the global lockdown imposed by governments on people due to the outbreak of coronavirus – COVID-19, human beings were forced to stay home and follow tough restrictions; they turned to poetry for self-recollection and introspection as it provides them with an escape from their panic and anxiety. Approaching poetry was a panacea against the fatality of the disease; it had an enormous

ABSTRACT This article poses the research question of how readers of poetry react to the phenomenon of “corona poetry” by assessing their attitude toward poems on Covid-19, especially focusing on the specific arguments these readers put to the fore. These arguments are interpreted in light of the opposition between autonomous and heteronomous poetry, thus revealing whether readers of poetry primarily

ABSTRACT The pandemic COVID-19 has changed every aspect of human life. Lockdowns have halted the ever-throbbing heart of humanity. As we become prisoners in our homes, the age-old habit of looking at life, inside and outside, has changed. As humans, globally and collectively, suffered the zoo-like caging for the first time in the history of humankind, Nature, in the absence of her biggest polluter

ABSTRACT Through poetic inquiry, I retell Willow’s story, a self-identified “ex”-Mormon woman with a gay son whom she respects and loves more than anything in the world. Willow has left Mormonism by the wayside to offer her full love and support to her son. She credits her son with saving her from herself and lessening the hold religion had over her. In representing Willow’s story, I focused on how

ABSTRACT The article presents an overview of the therapeutic values of hip-hop works and indicates a method of diagnostic analysis of original texts useful in therapy and education. The results of the analysis are helpful for educators and therapists who use music therapy in working with adolescents with socialization deficits. The source material for the research has been based on original hip-hop

(2021). Contradictions. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 131-132.

(2021). Dissertation Abstracts. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 133-137.

ABSTRACT As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the whole world, every aspect of people’s daily life has been turned topsy-turvy. In an effort to stem the spread of the virus, most people in the U.S. are living under relatively restrictive conditions of quarantine. This autoethnographic poetic inquiry presents a series of poems written within quarantine as dialogic healing responses to the pandemic. I aim

ABSTRACT The article presents a narrative qualitative study that included analysis of 54 texts written and published online by 22 women aged 20–40 who had been sexually abused in childhood. The study found that personal writing by victims of childhood sexual abuse fosters rehabilitation of the damaged witness function within the post-traumatic mind by self-testimony processes that occur in various

ABSTRACT This paper discusses the father absence and/or misattachment with depleting effects psychologically, personally and collectively on the daughter. The concept unfolds through a series of a woman’s dreams along with the poetry and dreams of Sylvia Plath, an American poetess from the mid-twentieth century. The perspective of Jungian analytical psychology is complimented by that of French psychoanalyst

ABSTRACT Poetic depiction of problems and complex thoughts is an innovative approach that facilitates introspective thinking and the building of self-identity. This study aimed at providing nursing students with in-depth knowledge about mental health through free poetic production. A qualitative, descriptive research approach, of sociopoetic inspiration involving 96 undergraduate nursing students,

(2021). Dissertation Abstracts. Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 61-65.

This poetic narrative autoethnographic inquiry explores lived experiences of a transracial adoptee Asian American coming to terms with his identity through the examination of the complexities of hi...

This qualitative research paper discusses the importance of experiential learning in the creative writing process, the cognitive processing of difficult emotions that can result from writing creati...

Creative writing might support recovery and wellbeing of patients with mental distress. Writing activities often take place in communities, social service facilities, or outpatient care, including ...

This study aims to analyze a case study of the Digi-Stars Science Film Club, which focused on using poetry, and digital media to improve upper elementary African Americans’ science learning. Fourth...

This article discusses a poetic autoethnography inquiry about living with Others-illness. I show how the relation is established between the self and society, culture and personality. I want to sho...

Rare sunlight-streaked and autumn-ceilinged dawn on this frail-skinned globe— it’s apt a frame for these so ancient harbingers of grief and hope: they toll above the olive groves where stones drag ...

COVID-19 has thrown community, nation and world into a collective state of grief and mourning. We search for answers as to how this crisis unfolded and question why so many lives were lost. Many of...

(2021). Podstawy współczesnej biblioterapii: Podręcznik akademicki, Wydanie II [Foundations of contemporary bibliotherapy: an academic handbook, Second Edition] Journal of Poetry Therapy: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 58-60.

ABSTRACT This article contributes to understanding the relationship between the concept of Poetry Therapy (PT) and its application in practice. The article examines the benefits of a Creative Interactive Poetry Therapy Model (CIPT) within a group-based intervention program for empowerment and well-being. The article reflects data of four studies in different school settings that practiced the natural

ABSTRACT “Bridge to the Spirit World” is a poem based on my first undergraduate research experience performing archival and oral history research with the LGBTQ History of Monterey County Archiving Project. Through this work, I look to unify my identities as both poet and researcher, as I retell and reflect on the impact engaging with queer ancestors and elders had on my understanding of self and personal

ABSTRACT Staller (2015) presented the challenge to qualitative researchers of valuing data that already exists and using it as a starting point to explore “whether there are questions which can be asked and answered using that evidence” (p. 732) as opposed to the traditional approach of beginning with research questions. A class of social work doctoral students learning qualitative methods assumed

Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry is an inspiring edited volume on how poetry and imaginative writing can be experienced and realized in a variety of ways with a simultaneous unifying intentio...