* The only textbook on poetry therapy available * The theoretical base for poetry therapy is expanded to include new developments in narrative therapy, schema focused cognitive therapy, and positive psychology * Additional modalities and techniques added including use of hip hop, spoken word, and other lyrical approaches including reverse poem, storytelling, photovoice and cartoons/comics

* The only textbook on poetry therapy available * The theoretical base for poetry therapy is expanded to include new developments in narrative therapy, schema focused cognitive therapy, and positive psychology * Additional modalities and techniques added including use of hip hop, spoken word, and other lyrical approaches including reverse poem, storytelling, photovoice and cartoons/comics

As serious research in and around expressive therapies flourishes as never before, this four-volume set from Routledge's new Major Themes in Mental Health series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. Edited by a leading scholar, the collection assembles foundational and canonical work, together with innovative and cutting-edge applications and interventions. For novices, the collection will be particularly useful as an essential database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. And, for more advanced scholars and practitioners, it will be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar-and sometimes overlooked-texts. For both, Expressive Therapies will be valued as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

This text gathers together the most efficient and effective tools to ease the pain of grief and promote the natural process of bereavement. The purpose of the text is fourfold. Firstly, to provide a theoretical bridge between two fields by providing conceptual terminology, such as defining both "normal" versus "dysfunctional bereavement" and the meaning and range of death-related PTSD. Secondly, the volume confirms and illustrates the identical patterns of reactions between those who survive the death of a loved one and other traumatic events. Next, the text applies the most useful theoretical models to the bereavement experience, and in turn acknowledeges the utility of generalizing bereavement models to other traumatic experiences. The volume's final purpose is to identify and apply the most useful and effective approaches in traumatology literature to the study, diagnosis, and treatment of traumatic stressors other than death.