Expressive Arts Therapies Books
Aggression in Play Therapy: A Neurobiological Approach for Integrating Intensity
This book offers a way to work with aggressive play that allows children to learn how to integrate the intensity they are experiencing from their thoughts, emotions and sensations while... (more)
Thera-Build (R) with LEGO (R): A Playful Therapeutic Approach for Promoting Emotional Well-Being in Children
'Thera-Build' is a LEGO (R)-based therapeutic approach for improving children's emotional well-being. Participation in Thera-Build groups can help to boost self-esteem, address common issues such as... (more)
Therapeutic Adventures with Autistic Children: Connecting through Movement, Play and Creativity
A vivid exploration of working with autistic children using empowering techniques from a range of creative therapies. Each chapter in this heartening book is the story of a child with autism and how... (more)
Art-Making with Refugees and Survivors: Creative and Transformative Responses to Trauma After Natural Disasters War and Other Crises
This timely book reveals the therapeutic effect group art projects can have when working with survivors and refugees of war, natural disaster, poverty, pandemic and genocide. (more)
Fun Games and Physical Activities to Help Heal Children Who Hurt: Get On Your Feet!
Develop children's brains and bonds with this collection of no-tech, physical games, strategies and activities. Ideal for children who have experienced neglect, abuse and trauma, these "real-world"... (more)
Doing Play Therapy: From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change
Covering the process of therapy from beginning to end, this engaging text helps students and practitioners use play confidently and effectively with children, adolescents, and adults struggling with... (more)
Dramatherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Empowering and Nurturing people through Creativity
Dramatherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Empowering and Nurturing People Through Creativity demonstrates how dramatherapy can empower those individuals struggling to live with borderline... (more)
Art, Play, and Narrative Therapy: Using Metaphor to Enrich Your Clinical Practice
Art, Play, and Narrative Therapy shows mental health professionals how the blending of expressive arts, psychotherapy, and metaphorical communication can both support and enhance clinical practice.... (more)
Counseling for Artists Performers and Other Creative Individuals: A Guide For Clinicians
Informed by clinical case studies, scientific research, and relevant theories, Counseling for Artists, Performers, and Other Creative Individuals takes an in-depth look at the ways creative traits,... (more)
Art Therapy and Psychology: A Clinical Guide
This book offers a thorough and well-rounded clinical guide to utilising the depth of the unconsciousness through art when working with clients in psychotherapy. As a psychologist and art therapist,... (more)
Parent-Child Art Psychotherapy
Parent-Child Art Psychotherapy presents a working model of ways to incorporate parents into a child's art therapy sessions, drawing on the relational-psychoanalytic notion of mentalization in the... (more)
Art Therapy Research: A Practical Guide
Research in Art Therapy is a clear and intuitive guide for educators, students and practitioners on the procedures for conducting art therapy research. Presented using a balanced view of paradigms... (more)
Play-Based Interventions for Childhood Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias
Illustrating the power of play for helping children overcome a wide variety of worries, fears, and phobias, this book provides a toolkit of play therapy approaches and techniques. Coverage... (more)
Art Therapy in Private Practice
As perspectives on private art therapy practice evolve, this book provides an overview of the range of approaches, clinical settings, ethical issues and professional considerations when working... (more)
Creative Storytelling with Children at Risk: Second Edition
This second edition is fully updated and addresses ways in which we can apply stories and storytelling with children who are troubled. Stories can empower children to take action and ask for help,... (more)
Creative Play with Children at Risk: Second Edition
This second edition is fully updated with the latest good practice in play. Based on an understanding of 'Neuro-Dramatic-Play', the book shows that play is an essential part of children's healthy... (more)
Handbook of Arts-Based Research
Bringing together interdisciplinary leaders in methodology and arts-based research (ABR), this comprehensive handbook explores the synergies between artistic and research practices and addresses... (more)
Art Therapy with Military Veterans: Trauma and the Image
Art Therapy with Military Veterans: Trauma and the Image provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and applying art therapy with former and serving armed forces personnel who have Post... (more)
The Art Therapist's Guide to Social Media: Connection, Community, and Creativity
The Art Therapist's Guide to Social Media offers the art therapy community a guide that addresses content related to social media use, its growing influence, and the impact social networking has on... (more)
Introduction to Dramatherapy: Person and Threshold
DIntroduction to Dramatherapy provides a theoretical framework for the practice of dramatherapy, and examines the relationship between the 'self' and the 'other'; the understanding of which, the... (more)
Writing Cures: An Introductory Handbook of Writing in Counselling and Therapy
Writing Cures demonstrates the power of expressive and reflective writing in the context of therapy, whether online or text-based, enabling counsellors and psychotherapists to undertake writing... (more)
Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis: Dramatherapy amd Psychodrama with People Who Hear Voices
Explores the use of drama and theatre in the challenging area of working with people who hear voices, focusing especially on survivors of abuse and those diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia. In... (more)
Contemporary Psychodrama: New Approaches to Theory and Technique
"Contemporary Psychodrama" presents the original concepts of a leading light of the Brazilian psychodrama movement. Previously unavailable in the English language, the book is divided into clear... (more)
Art Therapy for Groups: A Handbook of Themes, Games and Exercises: Second Edition
Contents: Part 1: Art Therapy Groups. Art Therapy and Groupwork. Running a Group. Recording, Evaluation and Evidence-based Practice. Learning from Problems in Groups. An Example in Detail: The... (more)
Creative Therapies with Traumatized Children
Anne Bannister shows how in 'the space between' children and their therapists, the child and adult can each use their creative skills to aid developmental processes, reverse negative brain patterns... (more)
Moves: A sourcebook of ideas for body awareness and creative movement
The aim of this publication is to deepen awareness of the body and the self through meditative movement and dance, rekindle the imagination by developing greater self-awareness, and to provide... (more)
Groups in Music: Strategies from Music Therapy
In recent years there has been increasing interest in the implementation of group music therapy. Literature to analyse, guide and further this practice is long overdue, so in this book Mercédès... (more)
Drama Therapy and storymaking in special education
Many aspects of drama therapy make it an ideal technique to use with students with special learning needs. This practical resource book for professionals covers the broad spectrum of students... (more)
The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy
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... (more)