Expressive Arts Therapies Books
DBT-Informed Art Therapy: Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and the Creative Process
This book will help you understand DBT-informed art therapy, and how to apply it to your practice. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) treats problems with emotion regulation, and is especially... (more)
Music Therapy with Families: Therapeutic Approaches and Theoretical Perspectives
This comprehensive book describes well-defined models of music therapy for working with families in different clinical areas, ranging from families with special needs children or dying family members... (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)
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)
When Art Therapy Meets Sex Therapy: Creative Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Relationships
Appropriate for both sex therapists and art therapists, When Art Therapy Meets Sex Therapy explores sexuality and gender through the use of art making, connecting relevant theories and research from... (more)
Sandtray Therapy: A Practical Manual: Third Edition
Sandtray Therapy is an essential book for professionals and students interested in incorporating this unique modality into work with clients of all ages. The third edition includes information on... (more)
The Heart of the Matter: Music and Art in Family Therapy
The Heart of the Matter invites therapists from all disciplines to consider the use of music and art in their work with families. It introduces systemic music and art ideas, giving clinical examples... (more)
Sandtray: Playing to Heal, Recover, and Grow
Sandtray refers to psychotherapies that use sand, water, and miniatures in a tray of sand where clients create a three-dimensional world. This story-driven book is based in clinical practice and... (more)
Arts Therapists in Multidisciplinary Settings: Working Together for Better Outcomes
In a multidisciplinary setting or team, competing perspectives and principles can be challenging to negotiate, but supportive working relationships and effective collaboration can ultimately lead to... (more)
Creative Arts Therapies and Clients with Eating Disorders
Drawing on the expertise of leading creative arts therapists from around the world, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the role of the creative arts in the treatment of clients with... (more)
The CBT Art Activity Book: 100 Illustrated Handouts for Creative Therapeutic Work
Explore complex emotions and enhance self-awareness with these 100 ready-to-use creative activities. The intricate, attractive designs are illustrated in the popular zentangle style and are suitable... (more)
Music at the Edge: The Music Therapy Experiences of a Musician with AIDS: Second Edition
Music at the Edge invites the reader to experience a complete music therapy journey through the words and music of the client, and the therapist's reflections. Francis, a musician living with AIDS,... (more)
Routledge International Handbook of Dramatherapy
Routledge International Handbook of Dramatherapy is the first book of its kind to bring together leading professionals and academics from around the world to discuss their practice from a truly... (more)
Intercultural Arts Therapies Research: Issues and Methodologies
Intercultural Arts Therapies Research is the first overarching study on intercultural practice and research models in the arts therapies. It provides a new departure from traditional arts therapies... (more)
Approaches to Art Therapy: Theory and Technique: Third Edition
The third edition of Approaches to Art Therapy brings together varied theoretical approaches and provides a variety of solutions to the challenge of translating theory to technique. In each chapter,... (more)
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. Recognizing the importance of understanding both art therapy... (more)
Using Art Media in Psychotherapy: Bringing the Power of Creativity to Practice
Using Art Media in Psychotherapy makes a thoughtful and contextual argument for using graphic art materials in psychotherapy, providing historical context for art materials and their uses and... (more)
Drawing from Within: Using Art to Treat Eating Disorders
Drawing from Within is an introductory guide for those wanting to explore the use of art with clients with eating disorders. Art therapy is a particularly effective therapeutic intervention for this... (more)
Soul and Spirit in Dance Movement Psychotherapy: A Transpersonal Approach
Using a contemporary synthesis of Jungian and Post-Jungian imaginal perspectives, animate ecological phenomenology, somatics and recent scholarship in dance movement and progressive spiritualities,... (more)
Sandtray Play and Storymaking: A Hands-On Approach to Build Academic, Social, and Emotional Skills in Mainstream and Special Education
Introducing sandtray play and storying into mainstream and special education classrooms can have an extremely enriching impact on the learning experience. When used effectively, it creates the... (more)
Musical Encounters with Dying: Stories and Lessons
Music therapy can be a profound physical, emotional and spiritual support at the end of life. This book looks at a wide variety of cases, explaining how music therapy can be used effectively. It... (more)
Reflections of Body Image in Art Therapy: Exploring Self Through Metaphor and Multi-Media
Recognizing that problems with body image are often the lead cause of eating disorders, therapists are increasingly looking for innovative and effective ways to address these issues with clients.... (more)
The Healing Forest in Post-Crisis Work with Children: A Nature Therapy and Expressive Arts Program for Groups
Nature Therapy is an innovative approach for working with children who have experienced stress or trauma. For the first time in the English language, this book presents the theory behind the approach... (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 Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy: Life is Dance
This second edition of The Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy offers a broad understanding of dance/movement therapy as well as an in-depth exploration of how and where it can be used to... (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)
Therapeutic Songwriting: Developments in Theory, Methods and Practice
Over the past ten years songwriting has emerged as a popular method for many clinicians in a therapy context. This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the contemporary methods and... (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)