Poetry as therapy

Tm, Raghuram

doi:10.4103/0019-5545.37377

Indian J Psychiatry

2007

DOI: 10.4103/0019-5545.37377

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Poetry as therapy

Raghuram Tm¹

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Poetry in youth mutual aid groups for recovery in rural and semi-urban environments

Agudelo-Hernández,

Guapacha Montoya

2023

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Poetry in youth mutual aid groups for recovery in rural and semi-urban environments

Agudelo-Hernández,

Guapacha Montoya

2023

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Using Poetry as a Psychotherapeutic Tool: Theoretical Approaches, Techniques and Methods

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2024

Herald of Polotsk State University. Series E. Pedagogical scien

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The article considers the problems of a new modern direction of psychotherapy and psychology – poetry therapy, which is a type of art therapy and a direction of bibliotherapy. Poetry therapy is one of the effective means of psychological and psychotherapeutic assistance using poetry. Against the background of the growing importance of various types of creativity and art in alleviating people's experience of increasing stress, an intensifying existential crisis, poetry therapy is actively spreading among practicing psychologists, but continues to remain a poorly developed area in the theoretical aspect, there is a shortage of publications on the problem, substantive and analytical, generalizing and systematizing nature, the absence of a bank of methods for the work of poetry therapists with clients and their special training. The article theoretically generalizes and systematizes approaches to the use of poetry (and its forms and genres) as a psychotherapeutic tool, offers the author's developments.

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Quality of Life and Hope Assessment in Women with Breast Cancer After Poetry Therapy as a Psychotherapy Method: A 6-Month Follow-Up Study

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Background: Quality of life in patients with cancer is an important issue. It affects different aspects of the patients' life. Supportive group therapy helps the majority of women with breast cancer to treat their disease and decrease the recurrence of the disease. Group poetry therapy, as a safe method, can be used to increase the quality of life of patients. Objectives: We designed this study to evaluate the effect of poetry therapy on the quality of life of patients with cancer. Methods: A total of 91 participants were divided into the poetry therapy group (n = 31) and the control group (n = 60). Six sessions of weekly poetry therapy were held. Miller Hope scale, Quality-of-Life Questionnaire Core 30 (QLQ-C30), and Quality of Life Questionnaires-Breast 23 (QLQ-BR23) were fulfilled by patients before, 1 week, and 2 and 6 months after the intervention. Results: Poetry therapy increased hope based on Miller Hope scale 1 week, 8 weeks, and 6 months after the intervention (P = 0.001). The improvement of the functional item of QLQ-BR23 and QLQ-C30 was significant in poetry therapy in comparison with the control group at the end of the study (P = 0.001). The change of side effect items does not differ over the course of the study (P > 0.05). Conclusions: Group poetry therapy can be a good psychotherapy way to increase the quality of life of patients with breast cancer.

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Poetry as therapy

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Poetry in youth mutual aid groups for recovery in rural and semi-urban environments

Poetry in youth mutual aid groups for recovery in rural and semi-urban environments

Using Poetry as a Psychotherapeutic Tool: Theoretical Approaches, Techniques and Methods

Quality of Life and Hope Assessment in Women with Breast Cancer After Poetry Therapy as a Psychotherapy Method: A 6-Month Follow-Up Study

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