Expressive Arts Therapies Books
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)
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)
Experiential Treatment for PTSD: The Therapeutic Spiral Model
This work presents The Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM), a systematic modification of psychodrama, for therapists working with people who are suffering from severe trauma and post-traumatic stress... (more)
Handbook of Music Therapy
This volume is richly illustrated with many case studies and clinical examples throughout, placed within a variety of different theoretical and philosophical perspectives. It will be invaluable to... (more)
Arts Therapies and Progressive Illness: Nameless Dread
Covering treatments such as art therapy, dance movement therapy and music therapy,this is a guide to the use of such therapies in
The Story So Far: Play therapy narratives
This book demonstrates how play therapy can be very appropriate way of facilitating this kind of expression. The work of nine play therapists is detailed, supported by the narratives of children... (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)