Event Title
Writing as Therapy: Using Fiction in the Classroom to Process Trauma
Start Date
5-2-2021 8:30 AM
End Date
5-2-2021 10:00 AM
Date of Publication
February 2021
Document Type
Presentation
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to show how bibliotherapy (De Vries, Brennan, Lankin, Morse, Rix, & Beck, 2017), with the YA novel The Bridge Home (Venkatraman, 2019), and writing (Feldman, 2011) can be used in the classroom to help students in processing their trauma through the lens of trauma theory. The author of The Bridge Home (2019), Dr. Padma Venkatraman, chose to write through her trauma to process what happened in her past and to heal (P. Venkatraman, personal communication, July 14, 2020). The author has also used the same method to process through her own trauma and emotions resulting from the massacre at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007.
Persistent Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/2829
Writing as Therapy: Using Fiction in the Classroom to Process Trauma
The purpose of this article is to show how bibliotherapy (De Vries, Brennan, Lankin, Morse, Rix, & Beck, 2017), with the YA novel The Bridge Home (Venkatraman, 2019), and writing (Feldman, 2011) can be used in the classroom to help students in processing their trauma through the lens of trauma theory. The author of The Bridge Home (2019), Dr. Padma Venkatraman, chose to write through her trauma to process what happened in her past and to heal (P. Venkatraman, personal communication, July 14, 2020). The author has also used the same method to process through her own trauma and emotions resulting from the massacre at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007.