Expressive Arts Therapies Books
Art Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Art Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience combines theory, research, and practice with traumatized populations in a neuroscience framework. The classic edition includes a new preface from the author... (more)
Group Art Therapy: Practice and Research
Group Art Therapy: Practice and Research is the first textbook of its kind, taking into account practice-based evidence and using a transtheoretical approach to present a range of art therapy group... (more)
The Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-stress Art Therapy for Busy People
The bestselling adult colouring book! Working with your hands is one of the best ways to soothe anxiety and eliminate stress. This stunning, pocket-sized colouring book offers a practical exercise in... (more)
Dreams and Nightmares in Art Therapy: The Dream of the Jaguar
Dreams and Nightmares in Art Therapy draws on the author's extensive art psychotherapy practice and teaching to provide a wide range of creative writing and visual art methods for dreamwork. ... (more)
Becoming and Being a Play Therapist: Play Therapy in Practice
Becoming and Being a Play Therapist: Play Therapy in Practice presents a rich and illuminating account of current play therapy practice, with an emphasis on becoming and being a play therapist and on... (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)
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)
Drama, Creativity and Intersubjectivity: The Roots of Change in Dramatherapy
Drama, Creativity and Intersubjectivity presents a new theoretical approach to dramatherapy. The book examines the key concepts of creativity and intersubjectivity in detail, through a comparison of... (more)
Art-Based Supervision: Cultivating Therapeutic Insight Through Imagery
Art-Based Supervision is a unique text for graduate supervision classes and seminars as well as a resource for post-graduate supervisors and practitioners. It offers a new view of supervision, one... (more)
Challenges in the Theory and Practice of Play Therapy
Challenges in the Theory and Practice of Play Therapy provides an advanced and in-depth exploration of the issues and challenges relating to the training, theory and practice of Child-Centred Play... (more)
The Inner World Outside: Object Relations Theory and Psychodrama: Second Edition
First published in 1993, The Inner World Outside has become a classic in its field. Paul Holmes walks the reader through the 'inner world' of object relationships and the corresponding 'outside... (more)
Creative Supervision Across Modalities
Creative methods can bring depth and new perspectives to the supervision process. This book proposes that a firm understanding of supervision theory is the vital foundation to utilising the power of... (more)
Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship: Third Edition
Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship is a text for graduate-level counseling students in play therapy courses. It provides comprehensive and detailed information for creating therapeutic... (more)
Dramatherapy and Destructiveness: Creating the Evidence Base, Playing with Thanatos
Dramatherapy uses the healing aspects of drama and theatre as part of the therapeutic process and is increasingly required to supply evidence of its effectiveness. This book aims to provide an... (more)
Inspiring Creative Supervision
Supervision is most commonly practiced using conscious thought, questioning and verbal discussion. Yet creative supervision can be a stimulating and valuable alternative or adjunct to this, and is a... (more)
Supervision of Art Psychotherapy: A Theoretical and Practical Handbook
Supervision in Art Psychotherapy will be an inspiration for advanced practitioners and students in training. It is the first book to formulate a unique theoretical base to current practice in art... (more)
Understanding Children's Sandplay
Dr Margaret Lowenfeld was a pioneer of non-verbal communication, particularly with disturbed children. By using symbols meaningful to them she evolved techniques through which they could express... (more)
Something to draw on: Activities and interventions using an art therapy approach
Arising from concerns about children who are underachieving or presenting behavioural difficulties, this book documents a number of useful approaches for teachers and others to use with individuals,... (more)
Music therapy in context: Music, meaning and relationship
Addressing current debates in music therapy on the question of 'meaning', this text asks such questions as: Are words necessary in creative music therapy? How is clinical improvization distinct from... (more)
Old and New Horizons of Sandplay Therapy: Mindfulness and Neural Integration
This thoughtful and comprehensive book sheds new light on Sandplay Therapy, a method founded in the 1960s by Dora Kalff. It is based on the psychology of C.G. Jung and Margaret Lowenfeld, with... (more)
The Embodied Brain and Sandtray Therapy: Stories of Healing and Transformation
The Embodied Brain and Sandtray Therapy invites readers to absorb the magic and mystery of sandtray therapy through a collection of stories.
Woven throughout these pages is the neurobiological... (more)
Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children: Second Edition
A trusted, comprehensive resource, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Experts in play, art, music,... (more)
Somatic Art Therapy: Alleviating Pain and Trauma through Art
This book focuses on somatic art therapy for treating acute or chronic pain, especially resulting from physical and/or psychological trauma. It discusses the role of the psyche in physical healing... (more)
Art Therapy, Dreams, and Healing: Beyond the Looking Glass
Art Therapy, Dreams, and Healing synthesizes methods to work with one's dreams through art therapy and introduces the reader to brief creative methods, Gestalt and Jungian experiential methods, and... (more)
Healthy Mindsets for Little Kids: A Resilience Programme to Help Children Aged 5 – 9 with Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Body Image, Conflict, Discipline, Empathy and Self-Esteem
This flexible, early-intervention programme utilises hands-on activities and worksheets to address behaviour issues and teach core resilience skills in children aged 5-9. Based around ten guided... (more)
Arts Therapies with People with Physical Disabilities: An Archetypal Approach
For those with mobility and communication challenges, arts therapies can be especially significant and rewarding as a means of self-expression and engaging with others. This book provides practical... (more)
Integrating Yoga and Play Therapy: The Mind-Body Approach for Healing Adverse Childhood Experiences
This book presents the foundational knowledge to ethically and knowledgably integrate yoga into play therapy practice with children and families and create life-long change. The mind-body connection... (more)
Mentalizing in Group Art Therapy: Interventions for Emerging Adults
By creating a therapeutic outlet for processing and self-expression, art therapy is an especially effective way to help emerging adults to develop their mentalizing faculty. With an 8-week syllabus,... (more)
Art Therapy with Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
There is a distinct lack of art therapy literature on working with adults with autism spectrum disorders, and this book combats this dearth by looking at the theory and practice of working with this... (more)