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.

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.

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