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Moon, Bruce L.
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615.85156
Publication Date
2002
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Working With Images: The Art of Art Therapists is an effort to give voice to the artist aspect of our identity as art therapists. This book is about how the artists work, how they learned to do it, why they do it. This book will give you glimpses of the memories, and perhaps the scars, of the artists. Be honored. The artists in this book know that it is good to make art and they make good art. Through their work they demonstrate their faith in the product and the process. For some of them, art making is their anchor, in the turbulent world of helping professions. For some, images come in respo.
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Arrington, Doris Banowsky.
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616.891656
Publication Date
2007
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This important new text demonstrates how art therapy can make a major contribution to the treatment of children who are seriously ill, in foster care, physically and emotionally traumatized, as well as deviant and addicted adolescents, young adults, and with the aftermath of a spouse's suicide. The first three chapters of this book set the framework providing established developmental structure, holistic interactions of mind/body and attachment essentials for human beings. In the following chapters authors that are experts in facilitating art as healing with people of different ages and in dif.
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Killick, John, 1936-
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616.83 22
Publication Date
2011
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Providing people with dementia with opportunities to engage in creative activity can play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing communication, and in reinforcing personhood and identity. This thoughtful book describes how people with dementia, and the people who work with and care for them, can foster and develop a creative approach, and provides rich and varied ideas for creative activities. The authors explore the concept of creativity - what exactly it is, its particular relevance for people with dementia and how to get into the creative 'flow'. They introduce a range of creative art forms, including poetry and story-telling, collage, drama, music-making, photography, textiles and working with wood and metal, and suggest possibilities for employing them in a range of settings, and with people of all abilities. Consideration is given to the practicalities of facilitating such creative work, including how to organise and run sessions, how to involve people with dementia and their carers, and how to reflect upon the experience. Practice examples are included throughout the book, as well as the comments and observations of people with dementia, and many examples of the artwork and poetry the authors have created with people with dementia over the years. Brimming with ideas, suggestions and helpful guidance, this is an essential resource for all those who work with people with dementia, and an inspiring read for people with dementia and their families.
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Brooke, Stephanie L.
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616.891656
Publication Date
2007
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This book is a useful reference for anyone seeking to provide therapy to survivors of sexual abuse. The approach represented here is a holistic one that utilizes various approaches to heal the various manifestations of sexual abuse trauma. Since the acts associated with such abuse are often so difficult to discuss, this book presents several methods of communicating these unspeakable horrors nonverbally, allowing the survivor to express their trauma with less difficulty. This approach seeks to use the actions of the body to heal the mind. This text contains information relevant to treatment fo.
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Rees, Mair, 1960-
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616.8569065156 22
Publication Date
1998
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Drawing on Difference reveals how art therapy can support and validate the emotional and mental health needs of people with learning difficulties. Case studies present work with adults and children with differing degrees of difficulty.
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Horovitz, Ellen G.
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615.85156
Publication Date
2005
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In this treatise, Doctor Horovitz shares a wealth of therapeutic tales and techniques. At the end of each chapter, Doctor Horovitz offers practical suggestions in exercise format. This is followed by a section where the reader can respond, via art making, journaling, and/or discussion. It will be of special interest to professional art therapists, educators, counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, speech language therapists, social workers, and students. Witnessing the restoration of the client's spiritual, emotional, and developmental issues is pinnacle for recovery. At the end of each para.
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Junge, Maxine Borowsky, editor of compilation.
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616.891656 23
Publication Date
2014
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This book is an attempt to give art therapy identity the front and center position it deserves. Despite efforts toward clarity, there will nevertheless remain many contradictory notions, often paradoxically existing at the same time. This is the nature of identity and of art therapy's identity. ""Art therapy"" is neither a form of artist nor a form of therapist, but rather a whole new field - a separate and special profession with core values and attributes of its own that must lead to a special and separate identity. Chapter 1 is the "Introduction" to this book. In Chapter 2, "Images of Identity," the basic groundwork is laid describing definitions of personal and professional identity and discussion of the concept of "intersectionality." Chapter 3, "Living in the Real World," discusses some unique problems faced by art therapists as they strive to achieve personal and professional identity and credibility. Chapter 4, "Essays on Identity by Art Therapists," contains 22 essays by prominent art therapists who were invited to contribute their ideas. These essays can be considered different "readings" of what identity is in the art therapy field. Chapter 5, "Identity Initiative, Steps Toward a New Definition: An Action Plan," describes a two-year process, including all segments of the art therapy community, to achieve and promulgate a shared public professional identity. Chapter 6 underscores "Conclusions" to discover some baseline information about identity for students entering graduate art therapy programs. A brief questionnaire was given to three art therapy master's program directors to conduct this survey with their entering students in the fall 2012. An important and essential discussion of the nuances of identity by the art therapy community is a significant intention of the book. Identity and Art Therapy is primarily written for art therapists-both experienced and novice. It is for people who teach now and for those thinking about entering the field in the future.
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Rea, Kathleen (Psychotherapist)
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616.891656
Publication Date
2013
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After years of struggling with an eating disorder and the unforgiving world of ballet, Kathleen Rea found solace and healing in artistic expression that honestly communicated who she was without censor. She learned to see her body as a source of wisdom rather than something that needed to be controlled. This inspired her to develop a style of expressive arts therapy in which sensation takes the lead in the creative process, enabling the wisdom of one's body to guide recovery. The Healing Dance outlines Rea's therapeutic approach, animated with details from her powerful life story and examples.
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Brooke, Stephanie L.
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618.928582230651 22
Publication Date
2008
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The Use of the Creative Therapies with Survivors of Domestic Violence is a comprehensive work that examines the use of art, play, music, dance/movement, drama, and supervision with respect to treatment issues relating to family violence. The author's primary purpose is to examine treatment approaches that cover the broad spectrum of the creative art therapies. The collection of chapters is written by renowned, well-credentialed, and professional creative art therapists in the areas of art, play, music, dance/movement, and drama. In addition, some of the chapters are complimented with photograp.
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