The Creative Journal for Teens: Making Friends With Yourself [Paperback]

Lucia Capacchione (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 11, 2008

This book helps teenagers express their true feelings and thoughts in the safe, nonjudgmental atmosphere of personal journal-keeping. The author, a registered art therapist with degrees in art and psychology, offers teenagers easy techniques for journal writing that enables them to understand their inner most thoughts and express their real selves. They will be able to clarify their goals, visualize their future and achieve self-reliance.

This journal method strengthens self-identity and confidence while improving written communication and artistic skills. It is a creative, inspiring and powerful instrument for personal growth. Teens can use the techniques in this practical guide to get to know themselves, to solve everyday problems, and to make dreams come true.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: Career Press; 2nd edition (January 11, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564145727
• ISBN-13: 978-1564145727
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #295,564 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #21 in Books > Teens > Sports & Hobbies > Arts & Crafts
  • #71 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Personal Health > Teen Health > Mental Health

More About the Author

Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D., A.T.R., R.E.A.T., www.luciac.com


I am a Registered Art Therapist, Expressive Arts Therapist, workshop leader and best-selling author of 15 books. My innovative methods spark and nurture creativity in all areas of life. I originated:

* The Creative Journal Method, blending writing with drawing (The Creative Journal series of books for kids, teens, adults)
* Healing through writing and drawing with the non-dominant hand (The Power of Your Other Hand and The Art of Emotional Healing)
* The Visioning® process of life design through collage and journaling (Visioning)
* Inner Child/Inner Family healing through the expressive arts (Recovery of Your Inner Child)

I was originally a professional artist and Montessori-trained child development specialist, one of the first Head Start directors in the U.S. After successful careers in both art and education, I stumbled onto the healing power of art and of journaling with my non-dominant hand while struggling with a mysterious life-threatening illness. Journaling through drawing and writing with both hands opened my right hemisphere. It gave my emotions a means of full expression, helped me remember and work with dreams, develop my intuition and connect both hemispheres of my brain. My Creative Journal opened new worlds to me (internally and externally) and it paid huge dividends in terms of my health. My full recovery without medication led to a new career as an art therapist.

Methods which I developed for my own healing and refined in private practice with others are now being used worldwide for treating addictions, trauma, and childhood abuse. Many of my books are used as texts in courses on therapy, psychology, writing, art, career development and applied creativity. My work is being used in mental health and recovery programs, medical centers, school systems (kindergarten through college), prisons, health and healing programs, spiritual retreat centers, business, and industry. I have trained professionals word-wide in the Creative Journal Expressive Arts Certification Training, and consulted for corporations, community groups and schools throughout the U.S., Canada, Italy, the UK, Australia and Mexico.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Journals made fun, July 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Creative Journal for Teens: Making Friends With Yourself (Paperback)

This book is a great help in journaling for self-discovery. The exercises are easy but can lead to some really interesting insights. I really love how writing and drawing are mixed, and looking back at my drawings is really interesting. A few small complaints: the examples in here would look much better in full color instead of bad grayscale copies with a page layout that looks like something I would do for a school project; and the cost of this book, plus the sketchbook you'll need to get started, plus a good set of markers, is a tad expensive for people still dependent on allowance money. If you've got the cash, however, this is a fun way for a teen to develop her sense of identity and work through all the nasty issues teens face.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Decent Teaching Aid, May 8, 2007

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Aprille R. Tenorio "A. Tenorio" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Creative Journal for Teens: Making Friends With Yourself (Paperback)

As an English teacher, I use The Creative Journal for Teens: Making Friends With Yourself for journal topic ideas even though it seems to be meant as a teen's personal and private journal. Some of the topics are repetative and others I feel are too personal for me to be asking my students to write about. It has given me some great ideas nonetheless and I think a teen that likes to write or has shown interest in journaling would love this book. I know I would have thoroughly enjoyed this book as a teenager.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love This, August 27, 2010

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Venus Pandora (San Diego, Ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Creative Journal for Teens: Making Friends With Yourself (Paperback)

I've had a copy of this book since I was 10. I strongly recommend it for those who are starting journals, who are stuck in their journal writings, and for those who are beginning art therapists. It's wonderfully written. It's clear and well organized.
I was happy to have a chance to talk with Capacchione once about art therapy but I have to say, over the phone, she is a sales person all the way and couldn't talk to me as a future colleague (or a colleague as I am now completing a masters in art therapy).