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Summary:

Unpack my Heart with Words explores how literature can be used to help young victims cope with their experiences. The process of reading, discussing and rewriting carefully selected texts can have a significant therapeutic impact, as the young person identifies his or her own experience in the narrative. This book guides readers through all aspects of implementing biblio/narrative therapy with children and adolescents, from the importance of cultural sensitivity and understanding the psychological needs of the child to providing more practical information on how to choose the right text and encourage expression through the spoken and written word. It includes exercises for use in sessions, an analysis of the importance of symbol when working therapeutically with children, and a complete account of the ethics of good practice. Drawing on the author's innovative work with young asylum seekers and refugees, and with an overview of the latest research in creativity, language and memory, the book provides a comprehensive and practical resource on the use of literature to help young victims regain their dignity and overcome the overwhelmed hurt self. This book will be of immeasurable value to students and practitioners world-wide in arts and health care who work with traumatised young people, including counsellors, clinical psychologists, educational psychologists, teachers, psychotherapists and social workers.

Table of Contents:

• Part 1 Terror and the Telling: Entering the Young Asylum Seeker’s World. War trauma, abuse and the interrupted narrative
• Linking external and internal worlds: forming a relationship
• Self-narration and identity: therapeutic writing that reconstructs and reconnects
• Living in two cultures: 'I am neither here nor there'
• Part 2 Mapping the Terrain. Healing words have a history
• Approaches
• Processes
• Transformative books: a key to unlocking trauma
• Core competencies: training and organisations
• Aims, ethics and good practice
• Part 3 Derring-do: Entering the Symbolic World. Trauma and word-play
• Accessing trauma through images, symbols and metaphors
• Writing traumatic dreams and fantasies
• The therapeutic use of fairy tales and myths: fantasising empowerment
• Using poems and fiction for developmental listening/reading/writing
• Part 4 Social Dynamics. The value of commonality and community
• The facilitator's group skills
• Part 5 Brain Works: Putting the Mind to It. Trauma, memory, narrative: the creative brain
• The brain, literature and trauma
• Part 6 Mapping the Research: The Efficacy of Writing on Trauma: An Evaluation. Controlled laboratory studies and 'real-world' projects

• Interapy: therapy online, future research.

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Author/Creator:

Baraitser, Marion , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Main Work:

Reading and expressive writing with traumatised children, young refugees and asylum seekers: unpack my heart with words [by Baraitser, M.]

Related Series:

Writing for therapy or personal development series

Subjects:

Bibliotherapy for children

Narrative therapy

Creative writing — Therapeutic use

Psychic trauma in children — Treatment

Refugee children — Mental health services

Creative writing

Psychic trauma in children

Refugee children

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed October 05, 2017).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-275) and indexes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

RJ505.B5 B373 2014eb

OCLC Numbers:

882778497

Other Control Numbers:

3388298 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP3388298/ctiv