Identifying the mechanisms of poetry therapy and associated effects on participants: A synthesised review of empirical literature

A Alfrey, V Field, I Xenophontes, S Holttum - The Arts in Psychotherapy, 2021 - Elsevier
Poetry therapy is a promising but heterogeneous and under-evidenced form of creative arts
therapy. Theories of change have been proffered but are model-specific and poorly …

Reading and rewriting poetry on life to survive the COVID-19 pandemic

D Sharma - Journal of Poetry Therapy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The pandemic COVID-19 has changed every aspect of human life. Lockdowns have halted
the ever-throbbing heart of humanity. As we become prisoners in our homes, the age-old …

Using developmental bibliotherapy design to improve self-management skills of post-graduate students

D Sharma - Journal of Poetry Therapy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Students come to schools and college to not only learn academic subjects but also gain
personal effectiveness skills for life. During the developmental and transition phase of …

The lawlessness of loss: Poetry and autoethnographic writing as therapy in grief and loss

ML Williams - OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study seeks to locate and evaluate 'poetry therapy'as a form of therapeutic method for
use by practitioners of humanistic psychotherapy especially when used in responding to the …

Demonstrating the therapeutic values of poetry in doctoral research: autoethnographic steps from the enchanted forest to a PhD by publication path

S Lazarus - Methodological innovations, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
We rarely acknowledge the achievements of doctoral candidates who fought with all they
had but still lost the battle and dropped out–we know so little about what becomes of them …

A poetic autoethnography of when poetry became my synergistic approach for pedagogy and andragogy

S Anand - Teacher well-being in English language teaching, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
From the perspectives of an international student-teacher and Teaching English to speakers
of other languages scholar studying and researching in the context of US higher education, I …

“Her voice is proud”: Exploring the intersections of writing, gender, and mental health

MC Schreuder - Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the wake of the Covid‐19 pandemic, challenges with adolescent mental health are on the
rise, making the need for spaces where teens share their emotions and experiences all the …

Writing poems: A waste of time or a savior of life–an autoethnographic exploration

D Sharma - Journal of Poetry Therapy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The act of writing poetry in the personal space has therapeutic effects, however, beyond the
personal space, is there a utility of poetry? When the society is proclaiming poetry to be …

Poetry writing as a hope-building tool during the COVID-19 pandemic

D Sharma - Journal of Poetry Therapy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In difficult times, people turn to poetry, reading, and writing for solace and peace. In
emotionally intense and traumatic times, people use poetry to process and understand the …

The poetry of forgiveness: Poetic inquiry, forgiveness and autoethnography in the context of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) recovery

IJ Gildea - Journal of spirituality in mental health, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual wounding caused by childhood sexual
abuse (CSA) and the ways in which one dimension of the trauma impacts another is …