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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)

Analytical Music Therapy

Edited by Johannes Th. Eschen

This book brings together the work of analytical music therapists from Europe and the USA. The book examines the origins and theory of Analytical Music Therapy (AMT) before exploring its uses in... (more)

Printmaking as Therapy: Frameworks for Freedom

by Lucy Mueller White

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)

Profiles of Play: Assessing and Observing Structure and Process in Play

by Saralea Chazan

Written by a leading child psychologist, this clearly written and practical book provides a template for interpreting change and meaning in children's lives through their play activity. It shows how... (more)

Healing Arts Therapies and Person-Centered Dementia Care

by Anthea Innes, Karen Hatfield

One of the highly respected the Bradford Dementia Group Good Practice Guides. (more)

Playful Awakening: Releasing the Gift of Play in Your Life

by Di Gammage

Playfulness has the power to reconnect us with our sense of self, and help us achieve growth and self-fulfilment. The author of this wide-ranging book explores the universal significance of play in... (more)

New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy: The Play of Poiesis

Edited by Stephen K. Levine, Ellen Levine

This collection reflects on the theory and application of expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social and ecological change. Bringing the understanding of expressive arts into... (more)

Art Therapy Across Cultural and Race Boundaries: Working with Identity

by Lorette Dye

With an international focus, this book considers how race and culture can impact the practice of art therapy and how art therapists can work effectively with clients belonging to cultures different... (more)

A Practical Guide to Play Therapy in the Outdoors: Working in Nature

by Ali Chown

A Practical Guide to Play Therapy in the Outdoors responds to the significant and growing interest in the play therapy community of working in nature. Alison Chown provides practical ideas about why... (more)

Environmental Expressive Therapies: Nature-Assisted Theory and Practice

Edited by Alexander Kopytin, Madeline Rugh

Environmental Expressive Therapies contributes to the emerging phenomenon of eco-arts therapy by highlighting the work that international expressive arts therapists have accomplished to establish a... (more)

A Guide to Art Therapy Materials, Methods, and Applications: A Practical Step-by-Step Approach

by Ellen G. Horovitz

Written by a well-respected author and practitioner in the field of art therapy, A Guide to Art Therapy Materials, Methods, and Applications is an innovative, comprehensive text that guides readers... (more)

Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children

by P. Gussie Klorer

Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children offers students in training and professionals who work with children an array of sensitive and creative ways to help even their most challenging patients.... (more)

Advanced Methods of Music Therapy Practice

by Nicki S. Cohen

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)

The Clinician's Guide to Forensic Music Therapy: Treatment Manuals for Group Cognitive Analytic Music Therapy (G-CAMT) and Music Therapy Anger Management (MTAM)

by Stella Compton Dickinson, Laurien Hakvoort

The Clinician's Guide to Forensic Music Therapy provides information and advice on how to effectively and safely deliver two context-specific, systematic approaches in forensic music therapy. The... (more)

The Economics of Therapy: Caring for Clients, Colleagues, Commissioners and Cash-Flow in the Creative Arts Therapies

Edited by Daniel Thomas, Vicky Abad

When you think of arts therapy, you don't often associate the practice with profit; however, ethical economic models are essential in allowing clients the most access to arts therapy services. Art... (more)

Outsider Art and Art Therapy: Shared Histories, Current Issues and Future Identities

by Rachel Cohen

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)

Complicated Grief, Attachment and Art Therapy: Theory, Treatment and 14 Ready-to-Use Protocols

Edited by Briana MacWilliam

This wide-ranging book on art therapy and grief provides everything an art therapist needs to feel confident in creating an effective treatment plan. It features fourteen clear-cut protocols,... (more)

Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents in Crisis: Fourth Edition

Edited by Nancy Boyd-Webb

This widely used practitioner resource and course text, now significantly revised, is considered the most comprehensive guide to working with children who have experienced major losses, family... (more)

Art Therapy with Military Populations: History, Innovation, and Applications

Edited by Paula Howie

For decades, art therapy has proved to be practical treatment for veterans and other military populations suffering from trauma. Art Therapy with Military Populations provides an in-depth overview of... (more)

Art Therapy for Psychosis: Theory and Practice

Edited by Katherine Killick

Art Therapy for Psychosis presents innovative theoretical and clinical approaches to psychosis that have developed in the work of expert clinicians from around the world. It draws on insights that... (more)

Music Therapy Handbook: Second Edition

Edited by Michael Viega, Andeline dos Santos

Rich with case material, the second edition of this respected text has been thoroughly revised with many new contributing authors and 85% new material. The Handbook comprehensively explores music... (more)

Positive Psychology in Art Therapy: Integrating the Science of Wellbeing into Theory and Practice

by Gioia Chilton, Rebecca Wilkinson

As a growing movement, positive psychology has much to offer the art therapy profession, which in turn is uniquely poised to contribute to the study of optimal functioning. Positive Psychology in Art... (more)

Psychodrama with Children: Healing Children Through Their Own Creativity

by Hanna Kende

In this book, Hanna Kende uses her wealth of experience to explain how psychodrama can allow psychotherapists to fundamentally change their relationships with children presenting with psychosocial,... (more)

Implementing the Expressive Therapies Continuum: A Guide for Clinical Practice

by Sandra Graves-Alcorn, Christa Kagin

Implementing the Expressive Therapies Continuum aims to explore the use of the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) in the form of specific expressive therapy initiatives intended to be used in both... (more)

Collaboration and Assistance in Music Therapy Practice: Roles, Relationships, Challenges

Edited by John Strange, Helen Odell-Miller

Relating the innovative ways in which assistants and collaborators can become an integral part of a course of music therapy, this book explores how the involvement of a diverse range of individuals,... (more)

101 Mindful Arts-Based Activities to Get Children and Adolescents Talking: Working with Severe Trauma, Abuse and Neglect Using Found and Everyday Objects

by Dawn D'Amico

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)

Larger than Life: Six Women and their Battle with Obesity as seen through the Eyes of a Dramatherapist

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