Art Therapy
The Arts Therapies: A Revolution in Healthcare
Our Price: £27.99 (with free UK delivery)
This comprehensive overview will be an essential text for students and practitioners of the arts therapies. It is international in scope, fully up-to-date with innovations in the field and will be relevant to new practitioners and those looking to deepen their understanding.
Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies: When Words Are Not Enough
Our Price: £26.99 (with free UK delivery)
Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies is a cross-professional book looking at current approaches to working therapeutically and socially with trauma in a creative and embodied way.
Conversations with a Blank Canvas: From Nowhere to Somewhere
Our Price: £19.50 (with free UK delivery)
As an author, therapist and artist, Isa L Levy, shares an honest, detailed and thought provoking self-assessment of her life journey. The book is reflective in so many ways which invite the reader to engage more consciously with their own personal journey. Using clear and apt word painting, the words are poetic in that they evoke a reaction of all our senses.
Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy
Our Price: £35.99 (with free UK delivery)
From pioneering therapist Cathy A. Malchiodi, this book synthesizes the breadth of research on trauma and the brain and presents an innovative framework for treating trauma through the expressive arts.
The Story Within – Myth and Fairy Tale in Therapy
Our Price: £20.49 (with free UK delivery)
The Story Within is a creative arts therapies approach which uses myth and fairy tale to help clients work with difficult personal material.
Art Therapy with Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Our Price: £19.99 (with free UK delivery)
There is a distinct lack of art therapy literature on working with adults with autism spectrum disorders, and this book combats this dearth by looking at the theory and practice of working with this client group.
Arts Therapies and New Challenges in Psychiatry
Our Price: £36.99 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £32.50 (with free UK delivery)
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.
Quick and Creative Art Projects for Creative Therapists with (Very) Limited Budgets
Our Price: £14.75 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £31.99 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £24.99 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £18.50 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £106.99 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £21.99 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £24.64 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £40.99 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £22.95 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £22.99 (with free UK delivery)
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.
Portrait Therapy: Resolving Self-Identity Disruption in Clients With Life-Threatening and Chronic Illnesses
Our Price: £13.49 (with free UK delivery)
Portrait therapy reverses the traditional roles in art therapy, utilising Edith Kramer’s concept of the art therapist’s ‘third hand’ to collaboratively design and paint their clients’ portraits. It addresses ‘disrupted’ self-identity, which is common in serious illness and characterised by statements like ‘I don’t know who I am anymore’ and ‘I’m not the person I used to be’.
Art Therapy and Substance Abuse: Enabling Recovery from Alcohol and Other Drug Addiction
Our Price: £21.99 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £34.99 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £36.79 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £39.55 (with free UK delivery)
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
Our Price: £17.50 (with free UK delivery)
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.