Expressive Arts Therapies Books
Authentic Movement: Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow
'Authentic Movement' approaches dance and movement therapy from a Jungian perspective. The basic concepts of Authentic Movement are expressed in this volume, through interviews and conversations with... (more)
Psychodrama and Systemic Therapy
It is now increasingly recognized that psychodrama provides a valid and useful tool in many different contexts; equally, practitioners in a wide variety of fields are acknowledging the benefits that... (more)
Reflections on Therapeutic Storymaking: The Use of Stories in Groups
This text examines the practice of therapeutic storymaking. In particular, it considers the ideas behind the method. Theoretical reflections are interspersed with storytelling. Topics dealt with... (more)
A Multi-Modal Approach to Creative Art Therapy
A further development of the multi-modal appraoch. Topics covered include: the importance of the creative process, the development of the art therapist's personal resources, issues of identity, and... (more)
Handbook of Expressive Arts Therapy
This authoritative and comprehensive volume explains how to integrate movement, sound, art, play, imagery, drama, and other multisensory practices into psychotherapy. Cathy A. Malchiodi and other... (more)
Trauma-Informed Music Therapy: Theory and Practice
Trauma-Informed Music Therapy is a timely volume that combines theoretical perspectives on trauma-informed practice with real-life applications in music therapy practice.
Board-certified music... (more)
Art Therapy with Special Education Students
Art Therapy with Special Education Students is a practical and innovative book that details the best suitable ways to work in the field of art therapy with special education students.
This book... (more)
Bridging the Creative Arts Therapies and Arts in Health: Toward Inspirational Practice
Case studies and perspectives from around the globe illustrate examples of effective collaborations between clinical creative arts therapists and arts in health practitioners. Reaching beyond silos,... (more)
Ecopoiesis: A New Perspective for The Expressive and Creative Arts Therapies In The 21st Century
This book is an innovative forum of tools, theory, and methods that nurture the reader's understanding of new eco perspectives and nature-assisted expressive arts and art therapies. (more)
Digital Play Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide to Comfort and Competence: Second Edition
The newly updated Digital Play Therapy focuses on the responsible integration of technology into play therapy during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
With respect for the many different... (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)
Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity
Through the author's experiences, investigations and discussions with artists, art therapists and inmates from around the world, Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity... (more)
Creative Therapy for Children in New Families:
The aim of this book is to encourage creativity in therapy with children who have changed families, for example through fostering or adoption. It contains a broad range of activities designed to help... (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)
Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body
Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body offers worldwide perspectives on gender in arts therapies practice and provides understandings of gender and arts therapies in a... (more)
Dance Movement Therapy
This is a concise, practical introduction to a form of therapy which has the body-mind relationship at its core. Movement, with both its physical and metaphorical potential, provides a unique medium... (more)
Printmaking as Therapy: Frameworks for Freedom
The process of printmaking can be useful to art therapists in a wide range of settings, from groupwork to work with physically challenged clients. The author explores these therapeutic advantages of... (more)
Advanced Methods of Music Therapy Practice
The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, Analytical Music Therapy, and Vocal Psychotherapy are commonly studied and in conjunction with music therapy. This book... (more)
Outsider Art and Art Therapy: Shared Histories, Current Issues and Future Identities
Outsider art, traditionally the work of psychiatric patients, offenders and minority groups, and art therapy have shared histories of art created in psychiatric care. As the two fields grow, this... (more)
101 Mindful Arts-Based Activities to Get Children and Adolescents Talking: Working with Severe Trauma, Abuse and Neglect Using Found and Everyday Objects
Many children who have experienced serious trauma are withdrawn and closed off, making it difficult to engage with them in therapy effectively. This book offers a compendium of therapeutic activities... (more)
Rhythm to Recovery: A Practical Guide to Using Rhythmic Music, Voice and Movement for Social and Emotional Development
Combining rhythmic music and movement with cognitive reflection and mindfulness, this comprehensive handbook shows how drumming and other rhythm-based exercises can have a powerful effect in... (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)
Dramatherapy and Autism
Using extensive examples from practice with a range of client groups, Dramatherapy and Autism confronts the assumption that people with autism are not able to function within the metaphorical realms... (more)
Music Technology in Therapeutic and Health Settings
There is a rapidly emerging and developing area of music therapy practice that uses electronic music technologies in a range of therapeutic and clinical settings to help clients with complex needs.... (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)
A Guide to Evaluation for Arts Therapists and Arts and Health Practitioners
Evaluation has become a crucial tool in the development of arts and health and arts therapy professions. This guide provides foundational frameworks for designing, planning and implementing bespoke... (more)
Art Therapy: Second Edition
This bestselling introduction to art therapy brings theory to life through case material and examples of real artwork produced during therapy sessions. Practising art therapist, Dave Edwards,... (more)
Art on Trial: Art Therapy in Capital Murder Cases
A man kidnaps his two children, murders one, and attempts to kill the other. At his trial, the prosecution seeks the death penalty, while the defense exhausts all available resources to avoid the... (more)
Creative Activities for Group Therapy
Leading a group is a delicate balancing act of tasks and dynamic group and individual factors, and the group leader's expertise and skill are fundamental to maintaining this balance. However, no... (more)