Creative Writing in Health and Social Care

by Fiona Sampson

Overview

This book is really a must-have for therapists and others in the creative arts, so that you can see how the workings of the human mind can be displayed through the arts. Even with serious illness, the mind can talk. And that is the point of the book'.

- Metapsychology Online Book Reviews

'The references cited at the end of each chapter are instructive and useful with some contributors drawing on memoirs and creative work and others on textbooks and papers. As Fiona points out in her introduction, those with an interest in the field - which includes clinicians, patients, arts managers, psychotherapists, writers, occupational therapists, teachers - I am sure you can add to the list - inevitably speak different languages, reflecting their different priorities. I agree with her argument that this contributes to a healthy diversity of practice that may offer "something for everyone" and we should resist narrow definitions. The challenge for those of us in the field is to locate ourselves on this strange and exciting map and to chart our own experiences in whatever languages are appropriate. Conferences, such as Strange Baggage and the increasingly popular Lapidus annual event provide an excellent opportunity to journey beyond our usual borders to exchange travellers' tales with our colleagues'.

- Lapidus

'An incisive collection of essays and case studies, where theory is applied to practical goals: working out methods for how to help and understand those with problems threatening their sanity or stability. Creative expression can contribute to personal and community health.'

- Writing in Education

'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

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781846420597
Publisher:	Kingsley, Jessica Publishers
Publication date:	03/15/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	939 KB

About the Author

Fiona Sampson has pioneered the development of writing in health care in the UK. Over the last fifteen years she has worked across the range of health authority care settings, with offenders and in social services community care. A prize-winning poet, she is currently AHRB Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at Oxford Brookes University. She is a founding member of Lapidus, the Association for the Literary Arts in Personal Development, and her publications in the field include The Self on the Page (1998), co-authored by Celia Hunt, also available from Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Fiona Sampson has pioneered the development of writing in healthcare in the UK. Over the last fifteen years she has worked across the range of health authority care settings with offenders and in social services community care. A prize-winning poet, she is currently AHRB Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at Oxford Brookes University. She is a founding member of LAPIDUS, the Association for the Literary Arts in Personal Development.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Christina Patterson, 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, University of Lund. 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, Artcare; 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, Sheffield Hallam University. 11. Evaluating Creative Writing in Health and Social Care: Some Principles, Fiona Sampson. References. Index.