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Swank, Jacqueline M.; Lenes, Emi A. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2013
A sandtray group experience is a creative intervention that counselors may want to incorporate into their work with adolescents. This qualitative inquiry explored the experiences of adolescent females who participated in a sandtray group while attending an alternative school. The researchers identified five themes that emerged from the data: (a)…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Creativity, Intervention, Adolescents
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Wiseman, Angela M. – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2010
This paper describes how adolescent students responded to a poetry workshop in an English classroom where the content was derived from their knowledge from their various life experiences and understanding of world events. Informed by theories of New Literacy Studies, ethnographic methods of participant-observation were used to document an eighth…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Poetry, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement
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Soliday, Elizabeth; Garofalo, John P.; Rogers, Debra – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2004
The effects of a widely used expressive writing intervention on adolescents' somatic symptoms, distress, and positive psychological functioning were evaluated. Eighth-grade (n = 106) students were randomly assigned to write about either an emotional or a neutral topic for 3 consecutive days. Students completed measures of somatic symptoms, medical…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Psychological Patterns, Essays, Adolescents