Pub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2023.2174678
Noor Hassline Mohamed, Amoneeta Beckstein, G. Winship, Tanjina Ashraf Khan Mou, N. Pang, Dennis Relojo-Howell
ABSTRACT Expressive writing is a therapeutic intervention which requires people to write about stressful life events and their emotional responses to those experiences. This study examined the effects of self-expressive writing in assuaging stress among university students. 166 university students first completed the Perceived Stress Scale and the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale. Participants were then assigned expressive written tasks whereby they spent 10–15 min daily for seven days evaluating aspects of their daily stress, stress related emotions, and possible ways to cope. The questionnaires were then re-administered. The before and after scores were compared. The results revealed that participants showed significantly decreased stress from pre- to post-intervention. Furthermore, the findings indicated that participants reported significant therapeutic relief and improved well-being. Expressive writing may be a promising therapeutic option to reduce stress and improve well-being among moderately stressed university students. Furthermore, it seems to have potential implications for therapeutic treatment methods.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-02DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2023.2169890
America S Revere
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Pub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2023.2170718
Neha Hejaz, Rajni Singh
ABSTRACT This article examines how Briony, the central protagonist of Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement comes to terms with her guilt for the wrong she had done as a 13-year-old. Her guilt turns into a traumatic memory which she attempts to overcome by adopting the therapeutic exercise of writing, i.e. scriptotherapy.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-04DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2022.2162198
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan
ABSTRACT The juggling roles of doctoral student mothers have worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the whole world. While researchers have been focusing on how faculty mothers are burdened by and cope with the “new normal”, little attention has been paid to the situation of doctoral student mothers. This autoethnographic poetic inquiry presents a series of poems written when I was experiencing mother guilt for not spending enough time with my two young children during the social distancing time while trying to work on my doctoral research project. Through my autoethnographic poetry, a picture of emotions will be presented, through which I aim to connect my personal responses to a wider audience, including female doctoral students who have children and share similar experiences of being both guilty as a mother and stigmatised as a graduate student amidst the global health crisis.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2022.2161753
D. MacKenzie
ABSTRACT This article is an a/r/tographic (artist/researcher/teacher) study through autobiographical close readings of several poems as a means to understand death within what the author calls eternal poetic time. Moving beyond the author’s childhood’s static image of death, the paper suggests that the ephemeral nature of life is not something to fear, but makes living more beautiful and eternal through the making and sharing of poetry and art. This paper is the first part of a three-paper study, which includes original poetry by the author.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2022.2161756
A. M. Rolfs
ABSTRACT This article, drawn from the author’s keynote address presented at the National Association for Poetry Therapy annual conference on 29 April 2022, provides a professional and personal perspective on the benefits of poetry therapy in promoting unity and facilitating healthy transitions. The power of poetry therapy lies in its effectiveness in both helping clients through painful or difficult emotions, and in helping them find wonder and beauty and renewed vitality. The search for unity is considered in the context of unity with others, within the self, and with Nature. Important transitions are considered both as expectable developmental changes, such as aging, and as responses to unexpected or external events. The paper emphasizes the importance of hope and the role of imagination in poetry therapy and also suggests a wide range of appropriate literature, including both published poetry, and a number of the author’s own poems.
{"title":"Needed words: poetry therapy and the circle of hope","authors":"A. M. Rolfs","doi":"10.1080/08893675.2022.2161756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08893675.2022.2161756","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article, drawn from the author’s keynote address presented at the National Association for Poetry Therapy annual conference on 29 April 2022, provides a professional and personal perspective on the benefits of poetry therapy in promoting unity and facilitating healthy transitions. The power of poetry therapy lies in its effectiveness in both helping clients through painful or difficult emotions, and in helping them find wonder and beauty and renewed vitality. The search for unity is considered in the context of unity with others, within the self, and with Nature. Important transitions are considered both as expectable developmental changes, such as aging, and as responses to unexpected or external events. The paper emphasizes the importance of hope and the role of imagination in poetry therapy and also suggests a wide range of appropriate literature, including both published poetry, and a number of the author’s own poems.","PeriodicalId":16967,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Poetry Therapy","volume":"36 1","pages":"1 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46119207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2022.2161752
S. Rojcewicz
{"title":"But I still have my fingerprints","authors":"S. Rojcewicz","doi":"10.1080/08893675.2022.2161752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08893675.2022.2161752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16967,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Poetry Therapy","volume":"36 1","pages":"85 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46877867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2022.2161755
A. Rahman
ABSTRACT “One Furnace Three Stones” refers to religious tolerance practices among Indigenous Papuan tribes at FakFak, West Papua, Indonesia. The present poem has been inspired by my engagement with FakFak people during a community service program in 2013. During the program, I witnessed how the local people heedlessly practised religious tolerance long before the West introduced the concept of tolerance and multiculturalism. The poem tells us a story of a father and his son who have a different faith but living peacefully within their family. Through this poem, I tried to reflect on the nature of the religious tolerance among the Papuan indigenous people through some values that they hold. Finally, this poem is dedicated to sufferers of some intolerant attacks in Indonesia and worldwide. I hope the messages of religious tolerance from the Indigenous Papuan people represented in this poem contribute to creating a better and safer world.
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