Know Your Spectrum!
Finn Monahan has put together a creative writing workbook to encourage teenagers with autism to draw their own personal conclusions about what autism means for…
Tag: poetry
Tales from the Music Therapy Room – Extract
Tales from the Music Therapy Room, Edited by Claire Molyneux is the result of a collaboration between New Zealand music therapists. It is an invitation to…
Geoff Mead on loss, the grieving process and Gone in the Morning
Geoff Mead took some time to reflect on the grieving process and some of the themes of his new book Watch the full 28 minute…
Read the poem about a foster family that won the National Poetry Slam
Unorthodox Beginnings is an uplifting poem by rapper-poet Solomon OB about his foster family. In 2016, his performance of the poem at the Royal Albert…
Anti Bullying Week: Using Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing – Pooky Knightsmith
Poetry can prove a great way into difficult conversations in therapeutic, classroom or family settings. In this chapter from Using Poetry to Promote Talking and…
An interview with Marian Partington – author of If You Sit Very Still
Marian Partington’s sister Lucy was kidnapped by Fred and Rose West in 1973. In 1994, 21 years later, her remains were found in their basement.…
Pooky Knightsmith: Three good reasons to write bad poetry
You don’t need to be a poet to write poetry, and you don’t need to write ‘good’ poetry to get a lot out of it. …
Download a therapeutic resource from Pooky Knightsmith’s new book ‘Using Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing’
There are five poems in this extract from Pooky Knightsmith’s new book Using Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing. Each poem, written by Pooky, is…
Request a free copy of the new Art Therapy catalogue
Sign up to request your free copy of our latest brochure of new and bestselling books on Art Therapy. This includes information on our new…
My Journal Journey – An Article by Kate Thompson, author of Therapeutic Journal Writing
“I wrote this book because this was a book I would have liked when I was training as a counsellor. At that time I had no idea that you could (‘were allowed to’) use journal writing as a therapeutic medium with clients. But I did know that it worked for me so it seemed natural to want to try. This book would have legitimized my instincts and given me the confidence to do it openly.”