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.

Table of Contents
Series Editor Note
Foreword
Preface
1.Expression and Reflection: Toward a New Paradigm
of Expressive Writing
2. Finding Your Shoobeedoo
3. The Journal Ladder
4. Journal Writing in the Counseling Relationship
5. Liberating Beauty: The Hynes and Hynes-Berry
Bibliotherapy Model
6. Engaging the Reluctant Writer
7. Poetry and Emotional Intelligence
8. Writing with Teens at Risk
9. Writing the Family Story
About the Authors
Acknowledgments