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When guided effectively, the relationship between adolescents and music can offer powerful opportunities for expression and release. This book provides music therapists with the complete 'how to' of working with teenage clients. more »
April 2010, Paperback: £22.99/ $36.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-019-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 304pp
Keywords: adolescence, challenging behaviour, creative therapies, expressive therapies, music therapy, teenagers
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. more »
2010, Paperback: £19.99/ $32.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-001-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
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
As arts therapists are increasingly working in schools, there is growing interest in identifying applicable therapeutic approaches and expanding on relevant research evidence. This book outlines the potential uses of music, art, drama and dance movement therapies in educational settings, and the contribution they have to make to the emotional and social development of children and adolescents. more »
2009, Paperback: £24.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-633-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp
Keywords: art therapy, arts therapies, creative therapies, creative writing as therapy, dance and movement therapy, dramatherapy, educational psychology, expressive therapies, music therapy, special education
Stephen K. Levine's new book explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives and resist the temptation to assume the role of the victim. Among the many concerns that the book... more »
2009, Paperback: £18.99/ $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-512-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp
Keywords: aesthetics, arts therapies, counselling, expressive therapies, psychotherapy, trauma
Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions combines theory, research and activities to produce practical suggestions for enhancing client participation in the therapy process. It surveys the literature on art therapy; somatic approaches; emotion-activating models; use of music, writing and dreamwork; and the implications of the new findings in neuroscience. more »
2009, Paperback: £19.99/ $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-031-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 320pp
Keywords: arts therapies, counselling, creative therapies, expressive therapies, interdisciplinary arts therapies, psychology, psychotherapy, social work
An award-winning psychologist and professional photographer co-author this unique creative guide to exploring and understanding your life: who you are, what you value, and what you wish to achieve.
A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life brims with imaginative exercises and examples that use the power of photography, art, and writing as tools for self-discovery. It provides... more »
2008, Paperback: £17.99/ $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-892-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
Keywords: art therapy, child protection, counselling, creative therapies, education, expressive therapies, interdisciplinary arts therapies, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, storymaking
"A state-of-the-art book, filled with creative practical techniques, thoughtful advice and lessons from excellent case examples that all healthcare practitioners-physicians and allied healthcare professionals alike-can apply for the therapeutic and health-promoting benefits for their patients and clients."
- from the Foreword by Gene D. Cohen MD PhD, Director of the Center on Aging,... more »
2007, Paperback: £17.99/ $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-861-0, 279.4mm x 216mm / 11in x 8.5in, 216pp
Keywords: arts therapies, counselling, expressive therapies, health care, interdisciplinary arts therapies, parenting, social care, social work, special education
Expressive and Creative Arts Methods for Trauma Survivors demonstrates how play, art, and music therapies, as well as sandplay, psychodrama and storytelling, can be used to aid the recovery of trauma victims. more »
2006, Paperback: £19.99/ $33.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-386-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Keywords: arts therapies, counselling, creative therapies, expressive therapies, interdisciplinary arts therapies, music therapy, psychoanalysis, psychodrama, psychotherapy, trauma
Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) benefit from a positive, affirming support of their individuality. This forward-looking book focuses on building individual strengths and resilience, rather than modifying perceived weaknesses, through individualized therapy within a group context. more »
2005, Paperback: £13.99/ $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-812-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp
Keywords: adolescence, arts therapies, Asperger syndrome, autism, child psychology, creative therapies, expressive therapies, inclusive classroom, interdisciplinary arts therapies, occupational therapy, social skills, special education
Challenging traditional therapeutic approaches to the arts in which art is often secondary to a psychological model, Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy provides a coherent theoretical framework for an expressive arts therapy practice that places the process of art-making and the art work itself at the center. more »
2004, Paperback: £19.99/ $32.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-039-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 264pp
Keywords: arts therapies, expressive therapies, interdisciplinary arts therapies, psychology
Drawing on her extensive experience in expressive arts therapy, Daria Halprin presents a unique approach to healing through movement and art. She describes the body as the container of one's entire life experience and movement as a language which expresses and reveals our deepest struggles and creative potentials. Interweaving artistic and psychological processes, she offers a philosophy... more »
2002, Paperback: £19.99/ $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-737-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp
Keywords: dance and movement therapy, expressive therapies, interdisciplinary arts therapies, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy
This book brings together the professional experiences of eminent analytical music therapists from Europe and the USA. The book examines the origins and theory of AMT (including a contribution on the subject from Mary Priestley), before exploring its uses in various contexts. Chapters cover AMT in counselling and rehabilitation, with adults and children and with nonverbal clients. A... more »
2002, Paperback: £22.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-058-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Keywords: expressive therapies, music therapy, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy
This engaging and practical book shows how older people who are disoriented or depressed or socially excluded by the process of ageing can experience a renewed sense of connectedness and life-affirmation through the expressive arts and arts therapies. more »
2001, Paperback: £24.99/ $42.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-819-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
Keywords: arts therapies, expressive therapies, interdisciplinary arts therapies, older people, palliative care, psychoanalysis, social work
Computer technology holds exciting possibilities for art therapists. Drawing, painting and photo software offer a new medium for work with clients, and the Internet is changing the way that therapeutic sessions, supervision, training, conferencing and information transfer are conducted. But with the vast array of hardware and software packages available, and the speed of cyber developments,... more »
2000, Paperback: £18.99/ $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-922-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp
Keywords: art therapy, expressive therapies
Supervision is growing in importance in all professions as a means of focusing on the personal and vocational skills of the supervisee, as well as a means of supporting them in their work. In this book Mooli Lahad argues that the most effective method of supervision uses both right and left hemispheres of the brain, the intuitive and logical. He encourages the use of metaphors, images and... more »
2000, Paperback: £15.99/ $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-828-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 128pp
Keywords: counselling, dramatherapy, expressive therapies, psychodrama, social work
