Reading and Expressive Writing with Traumatised Children, Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Unpack My Heart with Words

Contents

• Foreword by Sheila Melzak. Introduction.
• Part 1 . Terror and Telling: Entering the Young Asylum Seeker's World.
• 1. War trauma, abuse, and the interrupted narrative.
• 2. Linking external and internal worlds.
• 3. Self-narration and identity: therapeutic writing that reconstructs and connects.
• 4. 'I am neither here nor there': living in two cultures.
• Part 2 . Mapping the Terrain.
• 5. Healing words have history.
• 6. Approaches.
• 7. Processes.
• 8. The key: selecting books.
• 9. Core competencies: training and organisations.
• 10. Ethics and good practice.
• Part 3 . Derring-do: Entering the Symbolic World.
• 11. Trauma and word-play.
• 12. Accessing trauma through images, symbols, and metaphors.
• 13. Dreams and fantasies in trauma.
• 14. Fairy tales and myths: therapeutically 'storied pain'.
• 15. Using poems and stories in developmental reading/writing.
• Part 4 . Social Dynamics.
• 16. The value of commonality and community.
• 17. Group skills.
• Part 5 . Brain Works: Putting your Mind to It.
• 18. The creative brain: trauma, memory, and narrative.
• 19. The brain, literature and trauma.
• Part 6 . Mapping the Research: the Efficacy of Writing on Trauma: an Evaluation.
• 20. Controlled laboratory studies and 'real world' projects.
• 21. Interapy: therapy online, future research.