Art Therapy
The Story Within – Myth and Fairy Tale in Therapy
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The Story Within is a creative arts therapies approach which uses myth and fairy tale to help clients work with difficult personal material.
Arts Therapies and New Challenges in Psychiatry
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Despite their increasing popularity and reported effectiveness, there is a dearth of evidence-based research on the practices that fall under the umbrella of “the arts therapies”. The successful treatment of a variety of psychiatric illnesses through the application of the arts therapies has long been recognized in many countries around the world, including psychosis, schizophrenia, depression and borderline symptoms.
Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body
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Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body offers worldwide perspectives on gender in arts therapies practice and provides understandings of gender and arts therapies in a variety of global contexts. Bringing together leading researchers and lesser-known voices, it contains an eclectic mix of viewpoints, and includes detailed case studies of arts therapies practice in an array of social settings and with different populations.
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Quick and Creative Art Projects for Creative Therapists with (Very) Limited Budgets
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Do you need ideas for low budget, therapeutic art activities? This book provides all you need to create fun and engaging activities for your clients at little to no cost.
Presented with simple ‘how to’ instructions, each art project is accompanied with guidance on suggested client populations and variations of materials and design to accommodate the limitations, budgetary and otherwise, that therapists frequently face.
Art, Play, and Narrative Therapy: Using Metaphor to Enrich Your Clinical Practice
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This book illuminates the ways in which metaphorical representations form who we are, how we interact, and how we understand our larger environment.
The Handbook of Art Therapy and Digital Technology
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This book provides an authoritative overview of the applications of digital art therapy with different client groups and considers the implications for practice.
Creative Approaches to CBT: Art Activities for Every Stage of the CBT Process
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Expanding the therapist’s toolkit, this book provides creative activities and exercises for every stage of the cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) process, from initial diagnosis through to relapse prevention.
Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression
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Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression is a comprehensive compilation of expert knowledge on arts therapies’ potential in successfully addressing depression. The book identifies best possible ways of addressing the condition in therapy sessions, shares experience of tools and approaches which seem to work best and guides towards a conscious and confident evidence-based practice.
Art Therapy Cards for Children: Creative Prompts to Explore Feelings, Self-Esteem, Relationships and More
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These 22 colorful cards provide creative ideas for art therapy with children aged 4 – 11. Each card gives a different prompt – from “draw yourself as a superhero” to “paint freely with your fingers” – and is brightly illustrated to help stimulate the child’s imagination.Applicable for a wide range of group and individual therapeutic settings, the activities are grouped into four themes: feelings, relationships, the body, and imagination.
Art-Making with Refugees and Survivors: Creative and Transformative Responses to Trauma After Natural Disasters, War and Other Crises
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This book explores how creativity and the expressive arts can be therapeutic for refugees and survivors of natural disasters, poverty, war, pandemic and genocide.
Jungian Art Therapy: Images, Dreams, and Analytical Psychology
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The book provides several methods, which illustrate how to work with the numerous images originating from the unconscious and glean understanding from them. Throughout the text readers will enjoy clinical vignettes to support each chapter and illuminate important lessons.
Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy: Integrating the Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy
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Responding to the increased interest in the integration of expressive arts and ecotherapy, this book presents a nature based approach to expressive arts work.
Art Therapy in Private Practice: Theory, Practice and Research in Changing Contexts
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As perspectives on private art therapy practice evolve, this book provides an overview of the range of approaches, clinical settings, ethical issues and professional considerations when working outside of the formal structures of publically-funded services.
Art Therapy and Substance Abuse: Enabling Recovery from Alcohol and Other Drug Addiction
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Art therapy is an effective treatment for individuals with addictions. Working with this unique and often difficult clinical population, however, requires special therapist awareness and knowledge. This handbook provides everything art therapists need to know about working with these clients.
A Guide to Art Therapy Materials, Methods, and Applications: A Practical Step-by-Step Approach
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Written by a well-respected author and practitioner in the field of art therapy, A Guide to Art Therapy Materials, Methods, and Applications is an innovative, comprehensive text that guides readers in how to use basic to advanced art materials and methods in a wide range of clinical settings.
Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations
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Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations offers an in-depth insight into cross-modality and transdisciplinary practice in the arts therapies.
An Introduction to Art Therapy Research
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This revised and expanded edition pays particular attention to the field’s unique and compelling questions, most current literature, and emerging trends in research, while guiding readers through the basics of qualitative, quantitative, and art-based research design.
Art Therapy Across Cultural and Race Boundaries: Working with Identity
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With an international focus, this book considers how race and culture can impact the practice of art therapy and how art therapists can work effectively with clients belonging to cultures different to their own.
New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy: The Play of Poiesis
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This collection reflects on the theory and application of expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social and ecological change. Bringing the understanding of expressive arts into its contemporary theoretical framework, the book reveals the expansion of the field from its initial focus on therapy alone into a diverse range of other areas of interest to therapists, educators, researchers and those interested in working for social and ecological change.
Art Therapy with Military Populations
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Art Therapy with Military Populations provides an in-depth overview of both the theoretical and historical bases of art therapy with these groups while also chronicling the latest trends in treatment and the continued expansion of treatment settings.
The Economics of Therapy: Caring for Clients, Colleagues, Commissioners and Cash-Flow in the Creative Arts Therapies
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This book offers the fundamentals of micro and macro economics that apply to creating a sustainable and ethical business model that supports the development of the arts therapies profession worldwide.
Complicated Grief, Attachment and Art Therapy: Theory, Treatment and 14 Ready-to-Use Protocols
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This wide-ranging book on art therapy and grief provides everything an art therapist needs to feel confident in creating an effective treatment plan.
Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma: Helping Children and Families in Foster Care, Kinship Care or Adoption
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Written by contributors working at the cutting edge of delivering effective therapeutic interventions, this innovative book describes models for working with children in foster care, kinship care or adoption. Covering how to assess needs and contextual considerations for working with children and families, this book presents a range of creative therapeutic approaches spanning art psychotherapy, music therapy and dance therapy.
Art Therapy for Psychosis
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Art Therapy for Psychosis presents innovative theoretical and clinical approaches to psychosis that have developed in the work of expert clinicians from around the world. It draws on insights that have emerged from decades of clinical practice to explain why and how specialised forms of art therapy constitute a particularly appropriate psychotherapeutic approach to psychosis.