Kathleen Adams MA, LPC is one of the leading voices in the field of expressive and therapeutic writing. A psychotherapist and registered poetry/journal therapist, she founded the Center for Journal Therapy in 1988. She is the author/editor of ten books on expressive writing and the series editor for the It's Easy to W.R.I.T.E. Expressive Writing Series for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

About the Expressive Writing Series
It's Easy to W.R.I.T.E.
Foreword
Preface, Kathleen Adams
Section 1: Classroom
1.Stories and Storytelling: Good for the Heart and Mind, Mary Hynes-Berry
2. "Recipe for Me": Using Poetry to Support the Social-Emotional Health of Youth in Special Education, Mary Tinucci
3.Through Students' Eyes: Using "Photovoice" to Help Youth Make Sense of School, Kristien Zenkov and James Harmon
4. Extended Metaphor:Exploring Personal Odyssey through Expressive Writing, Diane Richard-Allerdyce
5. Breaking the Cycle of Writing Anxiety: Empowering Teachers to Write, Catherine Quick
6. The Teacher's Journal: Expressive Writing and Teacher Self-Care, Marisé Barreiro
Section 2: Classroom and Community
7. Toward an Ethics of Writing Instruction:The Role of Institutional Context in the Uses of Personal Writing, Robb Jackson
Section 3: Community
8. Seeing the World the Way It Is: Transformative Language Arts as Calling and Practice, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
9. Hip-Hop: Pen of the People, David Shanks and Randy Tonge
10. The Limits of (Critical) Expressive Writing in Prisons and Jails, Lauren Alessi and Tobi Jacobi
11. The Muse Works a Crowd: The Joys and Benefits of Writing in Community, Judy Reeves
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
 

Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. This volume offers practical advice on how to teach writing in a way that is respectful, insightful, and that helps the writer explore and celebrate his or her life story.