Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need

Helping Children to Develop Mindfulness, Spiritual Awareness and Self-Esteem

Diana Coholic

Paperback: £19.99 / $32.95

2010, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-001-2, BIC 2: JKSN JNH MQTC

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Art-based activities can develop resilience and self-esteem, enabling children in need to cope better with ongoing stress and loss. Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need offers interventions and exercises drawn from practice and research, for practitioners to use as a basis for their own arts-based groups or one-to-one sessions.

Holistic arts activities facilitate a spiritually sensitive approach. Mindfulness-based exercises underpin the approach, and include guided meditations in which a group imagines that they are clouds, or draw feelings and emotions while listening to music, to encourage awareness of the senses. The activities help the group to relax and become more self-aware, encourage an exploration of feelings, values and understanding and are beneficial for children not ready to embrace traditional therapies or counselling.

This book is accessible and suitable for helping, health and education practitioners and students from a variety of disciplines, such as social work, psychology and counselling.

Author information

• Diana Coholic

Subject areas

• Health, Social Work and Social Care

Keywords

• adolescence,
• adoption,
• alternative therapies,
• anger management,
• anxiety,
• arts therapies,
• attachment,
• challenging behaviour,
• child development,
• child protection,
• child psychiatry,
• child psychology,
• children,
• communication,
• counselling,
• creative therapies,
• creativity,
• depression,
• domestic abuse,
• educational psychology,
• emotions,
• expressive therapies,
• families,
• fostering,
• grief,
• group psychotherapy,
• health care,
• interdisciplinary arts therapies,
• looked after children,
• mental health,
• nursing,
• play,
• practical theology,
• psychoanalysis,
• psychology,
• psychotherapy,
• race,
• relationships,
• residential care,
• resilience,
• safeguarding children,
• self esteem,
• sex education,
• sexual abuse,
• social care,
• social work,
• spirituality,
• tai chi,
• teenagers,
• trauma,
• youthwork

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