Expressive Arts Therapies Books
Play Therapy Supervision: A Practical Guide to Models and Best Practices
Play therapy is one of the fastest-growing specialty areas in mental health. Understanding the skills, knowledge, and strategies that make play therapy supervision effective is essential in... (more)
Dynamic Play and Creative Movement: Powering Body and Brain
Dynamic Play and Creative Movement offers effective and accessible methods to supplement elementary education for young children using dance, movement, and play.
Imagination, physical energy,... (more)
Art as Therapy
This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and therapeutic. Through practical... (more)
Asian Art Therapists: Navigating Art, Diversity, and Culture
This book explores Asian art therapist experiences in a predominantly white professional field, challenging readers with visceral, racial, and personalized stories that may push them far beyond their... (more)
Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process
From pioneering therapist Cathy A. Malchiodi, this book synthesizes the breadth of research on trauma and the brain and presents an innovative framework for treating trauma through the expressive... (more)
Music healing in cultural contexts:
The essays in this volume explore how people use music to heal themselves and whether the healing powers of music are universal or culturally specific. The contributors approach the topic from... (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)
The Study of Music Therapy: Current Issues and Concepts
This book addresses the issues in music therapy that are central to understanding it in its scholarly dimensions, how it is evolving, and how it connects to related academic disciplines. It draws on... (more)
The Practitioner's Guide to Child Art Therapy: Fostering Creativity and Relational Growth
Even in the face of challenging conditions, art therapy treatment offers meaningful opportunities for growth. It's not always easy, though, to navigate the complex interplay of art processes,... (more)
International Dictionary of Music Therapy
The therapeutic uses of music can vary greatly from one part of a country to the next, from one therapist to the next and across national and continental lines. This groundbreaking work is the first... (more)
Art Education Beyond the Classroom: Pondering the Outsider and Other Sites of Learning
The subjects of this book belong to a population that is marginalized and isolated. They are children and adults with disabilities - artists who make art in special classrooms, prisons, rural back... (more)
The Music Effect: Music Physiology and Clinical Applications
Explains what "music" is, how it is processed by and affects the body, and how it can be applied in a range of physiological and psychological conditions. This book explores rhythm, melody, harmony,... (more)
Music Therapy
Drawing on their own experience, the authors examine a range of clinical situations and give examples of working with children and adults with a range of needs, including autism, learning... (more)
Spirituality and Art Therapy: Living the Connection
This is an exploration of the ways in which the spiritual can be used in therapy. The contributor explain how their own spiritual and creative influences interact, finding expression in the use of... (more)
Art Therapy Practice: Innovative Approaches
This text covers all treatment settings in which art therapy is used. With the use of case examples and client artwork to illustrate, the book offers instruction on both the classic and contemporary... (more)
Trust and Power: Taking Care of Ourselves Through Drama
This text stems from a Drama Workshop Project based on self-esteem and child protection issues, and seeks to show the value of using drama as a vehicle for learning. It is intended for teachers,... (more)
The play's the thing: Exploring text in drama and therapy
A text which integrates therapeutic practice with literature. Influenced by Winnicott and Klein, the author lays bear the dynamics of relationships and plots, showing their use in helping us to... (more)
Trauma-Informed Art Activities for Early Childhood: Using Process Art to Repair Trauma and Help Children Thrive
Covering the fundamental principles of art therapy informed activities, this easy-to-use resource delves into the importance and usefulness of art in early childhood development to heal trauma. ... (more)
Dance/Movement Therapy for Infants and Young Children with Medical Illness: Treating Somatic and Psychic Distress
This book presents dance/movement therapy as a window into the emotional and internal experience of a baby with a medical illness, within the context of treating the whole family system and using the... (more)
Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community: Research and Practice that Brings us Home
Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community champions several diverse and innovative approaches in the professional engagement with the creative body as a catalyst for change in therapy,... (more)
Dramatherapy with Elders and People with Dementia: Enabling Developmental Wellbeing
Dramatherapy with Elders and People with Dementia illuminates how targeted sessions of dramatherapy can improve the quality of life of elderly people with dementia.
The book takes the reader... (more)
Art and Social Interaction: A Guide for College Internships Serving Correctional, Rehabilitation and Human Service Needs
* This book has two goals: to introduce a relevant interactive experience for undergraduate students involving the visual arts and community service, and to provide an instructional how-to for social... (more)
Virtual Art Therapy: Research and Practice
This book provides a practical and research-based exploration of virtual art psychotherapy, and how its innovations are breaking new ground in the mental health field.
With seventeen chapters... (more)