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Handbook of Inquiry in the Arts Therapies

One River, Many Currents

Edited by Helen Payne
Foreword by John Rowan

Paperback: £25.00 / $41.95

1993, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-153-4, BIC 2: MQTC

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Foreword, John Rowan. Preface: What are the arts therapies? PART I: Introduction: 1. Introduction to inquiry in the arts therapies, Helen Payne. 2. `Why don't arts therapists do research?' David Edwards. 3. From practitioner to researcher: research as a learning process, Helen Payne. PART II: Application: Dramatherapy. 4. The active witness: the acquisition of meaning in dramatherapy, Phil Jones. 5. Research into dramatherapy theory and practice: some implications for training, Lucilia Valente and David Fontana. 6. On `being the thing I am': An inquiry into the therapeutic aspects of Shakespeare's `As You Like It', Brenda Meldrum. 7. Dramatherapy across Europe - Cultural contradictions: An inquiry into the parameters of British training and practice, Ditty Dokter. PART II: Art Therapy. 8. The retrospective review of pictures: Data for research in art therapy, Joy Schaverien. 9. The art of science with clients: Beginning collaborative inquiry in process work, art therapy and acute states, Sheila McClelland and collaborators. PART II: Dance Movement Therapy.10. Research as an act of creation, Bonnie Meekums. 11. Movement assessment in schizophrenia, Laurence Higgins. 12. New paradigm methodology in dance movement therapy research: a way forward, Bonnie Meekums and Helen Payne. PART II: Music Therapy. 13. The feeling of sound: The effect of music and low frequency sound in reducing anxiety and challenging behaviour in clients with learning difficulties, Tony Wigram. 14. Research in music therapy with sexually abused clients, Penny Rogers. 15. Permission to play: The search for self through music therapy research with children presenting with communication difficulties, Alison Levinge. PART III: Directory Of Arts Therapies Research.

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