title: Women speak. Healing the wounds of homelessness through writing.
abstract: The Women Speak writing project explores the use of writing as a therapeutic process with homeless women at an urban drop-in center. The project was developed in response to the women's desire to give voice to their experiences. By speaking about and sharing the experiences of their lives, a sense of empowerment through expression began. Nursing students and faculty working at the drop-in center were challenged to re-think the traditional clinical site relationship which gives highest priority to meeting the needs of students and faculty.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goldfader
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lehan
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D005260:Female; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011209:Power, Psychological; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014932:Women's Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014956:Writing