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Most people are visual learners. Seeing their ideas in pictures gives them great impact and more meaning. "Interactive Art Therapy: No Talent Required Projects" presents a cutting-edge therapeutic technique founded on sound clinical principles, providing another practical tool any therapists or counsellor can use effectively without anyone having to be a da Vinci. The book clearly discusses the clinical rationale behind using standard drawing in therapy and demonstrates how the interactive nature of the approach helps. 158 pp.

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Photography is an activity that can be enjoyed by all ages whether as a valued leisure pursuit, a creative hobby or as an occasional holiday pastime. On a deeper level, however, photography shows us how to look at things from different perspectives, to reflect, to communicate and to express ourselves in a way that goes beyond words. The reflective qualities of this accessible arts medium make it an ideal tool to increase self-awareness and instigate change. This book shows how it can be used to encourage and support personal and pr... read more

Rubin's Child Art Therapy is the classic text for doing art therapy with children and was first published in 1978. Twenty-five years later, the book is still one of the most frequently referenced and used by art therapists and other mental health professionals who incorporate art therapy techniques in their practice. This enlightening work first looks at the context for doing art therapy and then includes techniques for using art in individual, group, and family therapy. The book also features helpful ideas for working with healthy... read more

This volume brings together the professional experiences of music therapists from Europe and the USA. It examines the origins and theory of Analytical Music Therapy (including a contribution on the subject from Mary Priestley), before exploring its uses in various contexts.

Music therapists have a diversity of approaches and methods, often developed with specific relevance to meet the needs of a certain client population. This work reflects the components of such diversity, and is a guide to accessing and understanding the ideas that are the foundations of this field.

Introduction to Art Therapy Research is a pragmatic text that introduces readers to the basics of research design in quantitative and qualitative methodology written in the language of art therapy, with particular attention to the field's unique aspects, current thinking, and exemplars from published art therapy research studies. This combination of a broad, standard approach to research design plus art therapy's particular perspective and major contributions to the subject make the text suitable for courses in introductory researc... read more

Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources and Resources, is the thoroughly updated and revised second edition of Judith Rubin's landmark 1999 text, the first to describe the history of art in both assessment and therapy, and to clarify the differences between artists or teachers who provide "therapeutic" art activities, psychologists or social workers who request drawings, and those who are trained as art therapists to do a kind of work which is similar, but qualitatively different. This new edition contains a DVD-ROM with over 400 stil... read more

The Art of Art Therapy, first published in 1984, was written primarily to help art therapists first define and then refine a way of thinking about their work.
This new edition contains thoroughly revised material that reflects the significant expansion of the field of art therapy in the period since the book was first written. Specifically, this second edition invites the reader to first consider closely the main elements of the discipline embodied in its name: The Art Part and The Therapy Part. Chapters dealing with each of ... read more

Art therapists use the creative process to help their clients increase insight and judgment and work through traumatic experiences. In this long-awaited revision of the definitive and best-selling text on art therapy, Harriet Wadeson, a pioneer in the field, addresses the clinical considerations, education, history, and application of art therapy. The new edition includes new chapters on trauma, multicultural considerations, and substance abuse. Art therapists are provided with more than two hundred illustrations appear in the text... read more

Presents a wide range of activities aimed at reviving art's traditional healing function and illuminates some progressive views in the rapidly expanding field of art therapy, including the practice of imagination as a force for transformation; the healing effects of group work; and total expression, which combines arts such as movement, storytellin

Music communicates where words fail, and music therapy has been proven to connect with those who were thought to be unreachable, making it an ideal medium for working with those who have suffered psychological trauma. This volume addresses the need for an exploration of current thinking on music and trauma. With chapters written by specialists in this area, music and trauma is approached from a wide range of perspectives, with contributions on the following: the neurology of trauma and music; music and trauma in general; social and... read more

Drawing on her extensive experience as a creative arts therapist, Martina Schnetz puts forward a new approach to the process of art in healing. She explores the dialogue between the internal world, external images, and words, shaping a new vocabulary for creative arts therapists. The Healing Flow is a theoretical and experiential account of the author's work with survivors of childhood trauma and post traumatic stress. Case studies are presented in this model. Through providing deeper insight into the creative processes, participan... read more

"Healing the Inner City Child" presents a diverse practical collection of creative arts therapies approaches that meet the ever-increasing mental health needs of inner city children, whose exposure to air and noise pollution, and relatively high instances of violence, crime and family pressures, is increasingly paving the way for depression and behavioural disorders. Drawing on their own professional experience in the disciplined use of music, art, drama and dance therapy, the contributors describe approaches that enable children t... read more

This resource comprises a collection of accessible, flexible, tried-and-tested activities for use with people in a range of care settings, to help them explore their knowledge of themselves and to make sense of their experiences. Among the issues addressed by the activities are exploring physical changes, emotional trauma, interpersonal problems and spiritual dilemmas. Featuring individual and group activities of varying difficulty, including card making, painting to music, meditation, and body mapping, it also includes real-life a... read more

"Art Therapy and Clinical Neuroscience" offers an authoritative introductory account of the latest developments in neuroscience and its impact on art therapy theory and practice. Contributors explore the complex relationship between art and creativity and neurological functions such as stress response, immune functioning, child developmental phases, gender difference, the processing of imagery, attachment, and trauma. It deciphers neuroscientific language and theory and provides concrete applications for art therapy practice and in... read more

Young people today need to be flexible, imaginative and resilient and to use their creativity holistically and appropriately. "Close Encounters" shows how creativity and the special relationships that facilitate it can be nurtured within education through dance. Dance Partners for Creativity, an intensive two-year qualitative research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, underpins this book. It shows that dance-based partnerships have a place in the kinds of education futures that will have to be made in the ... read more