Dramatherapy
Dramatherapy and Learning Disabilities: Developing Emotional Growth, Autonomy and Self-Worth
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This book will be a significant resource for trainee dramatherapists, arts therapists and professionals interested in incorporating creative methods into their practice. It also provides examples of burgeoning arts therapies research within the field and lays the foundations for future projects.
Dramatherapy With Elders and People With Dementia: Enabling Developmental Wellbeing
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The book takes the reader through the dramatherapy experience of a group of people who display a ‘feeling intelligence’; a quality that softens distress at vanishing words and clouded memories. Unique in its approach, not only to dramatherapy with elders and people with dementia, it presents an essential validation of older people’s life stage development.
An Introduction to Psychotherapeutic Playback Theater: Hall of Mirrors on Stage
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This book will be of great interest to dramatherapy students, trainees and professionals, and group therapists who wish to reflect upon their practice through the mirror of Psychotherapeutic Playback Theatre as well as facilitators and actors working with Playback Theater or other improvised genres.
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Arts Therapies in International Practice: Informed by Neuroscience and Research
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Arts Therapies in International Practice: Informed by Neuroscience and Research brings together practice and research in the arts therapies and in neuroscience. The authors are all arts therapists who have reviewed their practice through the lens of modern neuroscience. Neuroscience confirms the importance of embodiment, choice, and creativity in therapy with a range of clients. Arts therapies directly provide these.
Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Creative Arts Therapies: A Case-Based Approach
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Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Creative Arts Therapies uses a case-based approach to provide practical guidance for practitioners on the skillful application of ethical decision-making in art therapy.
Dramatherapy: The Nature of Interruption
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This book investigates the nature and phenomena of interruption in ways that have relevance for contemporary dramatherapy practice. It is a timely contribution amidst an ‘age of interruption’ and examines how dramatherapists might respond with agency and discernment in personal, professional and cultural contexts.
The Drama Therapy Decision Tree: Connecting Drama Therapy Interventions to Treatment
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The Drama Therapy Decision Tree provides an integrated model for therapeutic decision-making by deconstructing the processes of choosing drama therapy interventions.
Arts Therapies and Sexual Offending
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This book provides valuable experiences of working with people who have committed sexual offences.
Child Agency and Voice in Therapy: New Ways of Working in the Arts Therapies
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Child Agency and Voice in Therapy offers innovatory ways of thinking about, and working with, children in therapy.
Using the Expressive Arts with Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Loss: A Pocket Guide
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Perfectly crafted to spark communication around a difficult topic, this is an invaluable tool for practitioners, educators, parents, and anybody else looking to support a child or young person through loss or bereavement.
The Girl Who Lost the Light in Her Eyes: A Storybook to Support Children and Young People Who Experience Loss
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This beautifully illustrated and sensitively written storybook has been created to be used therapeutically with children experiencing loss. It has been produced to accompany the title ‘Using the Expressive Arts with Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Loss’ shown above.
The Arts Therapies: A Revolution in Healthcare
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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
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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.
Find Your Way: A Story and Drama Resource to Promote Mental Well-being in Young People
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Stories are an invaluable tool for connecting with people, especially those reluctant to engage with more direct approaches. This powerful resource presents ten original, emotive and illustrated short stories designed to guide therapeutic work with adolescents and young adults in the classroom or consulting room by promoting emotional resilience and independent thinking.
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.
Acting For Real: Drama Therapy Process, Technique, And Performance
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This second edition takes the reader further into the heart of using drama for healing. Dr. Emunah offers an expanded understanding of her Integrative Five Phase model, a foundational approach that embraces the wide spectrum of possibilities within the playing field of drama therapy. Grounded by compassionate clinical examples, including ones that reach over time into deep-seated issues, the book offers tools for action-oriented treatment, embodied therapeutic interventions, and creatively engaging a wide variety of clients.
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.
Using Drama with Children on the Autism Spectrum: A Resource for Practitioners in Education and Health
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The second edition of Using Drama with Children on the Autism Spectrumtakes the perspective that support for the learning and development of children should have the purpose of giving them the freedom to be more fully who they are and able to function more effectively as themselves in a wider range of contexts. The focus of this new edition is on learning outcomes as expressed by autistic people, for example, to develop better understandings about the social world and to know how to manage everyday situations more successfully.
Improvisation in the Expressive and Performing Arts: The Relationship Between Shaping and Letting-Go
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This book explores the process of improvisation and outlines the ideal conditions for an inspirational creative state. Examining her own process as an artist and drawing on interviews with peers, the author considers how the forces of shaping (intellect-driven decisions) and letting-go (more intuitive moves) interact in improvisation.
Learning as a Creative and Developmental Process in Higher Education: A Therapeutic Arts Approach and its Wider Application
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Much has been written about the importance of creativity in learning and education over the last few decades. This unique book extends beyond the usual focus on implementing creative methods in learning, teaching and assessing within higher education, to an examination of creativity as central to a learning process which is transformational for the student.
Dramatherapy and Psychiatry
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The book is intended to be practical throughout and keeps jargon to a minimum. It is not written for professional or student dramatherapists alone, but is aimed as much at occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, psychiatrists and psychologists who are all involved in rehabilitation of people with mental illness.
Collaborations within and between Dramatherapy and Music Therapy: Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities in Clinical and Training Contexts
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In this insightful book, Oldfield and Carr draw together persuasive arguments for combining aspects of music therapy and dramatherapy, whilst retaining their unique facets.
Dramatherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Empowering and Nurturing people through Creativity
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Dramatherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Empowering and Nurturing People Through Creativity demonstrates how dramatherapy can empower those individuals struggling to live with Borderline Personality Disorder, and help them embrace and control the emotional inner chaos they experience.
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.