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The Creative Journal for Teens: Making Friends With Yourself

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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.

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.

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).