Expressive Arts Therapies Books
Creative Dance and Movement in Groupwork: Second Edition
This invaluable resource for teachers and therapists continues to explore the link between movement and emotions presented in the first edition of this innovative book. It provides 180 practical... (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)
Art Therapy with Older Adults: Connected and Empowered
This book outlines a framework for art therapy with older adults rooted in a belief in the autonomy and self-efficacy of older adults, including those with dementia or other diseases of later life.... (more)
Turning Points in Play Therapy and the Emergence of Self: Applications of the Play Therapy Dimensions Model
Effective clinical practice requires a thorough understanding of how turning points surface in the play therapy process. These moments can indicate a change in a child's thought or behaviour. The... (more)
Tuning In Music Book: Sixty-Four Songs for Children with Complex Needs and Visual Impairment to Promote Language, Social Interaction and Wider Development
Containing 64 songs designed to promote language, social and musical development, this book accompanies the Tuning In Cards so you can perform the songs and integrate the activities into your own... (more)
Foundations of Art Therapy Supervision
Art therapists often find themselves supervising without any formal training; while supervisees may have similarly difficult experience if they don't know what to expect from the experience going in.... (more)
Emerging Perspectives in Art Therapy: Trends, Movements, and Developments
Emerging Perspectives in Art Therapy aims to document newly emerging trends in the field of art therapy and to offer a vision of the future practices. This exciting new volume contains a diverse... (more)
Dancing on Blood (PAL VHS video)
PAL VHS video. 'This video is particularly valuable in that it allows the viewer to witness the process of art therapy... I think this is a very valuable video for use as a teaching tool. It could be... (more)
Music in Therapeutic Practice: Using Rhythm to Bridge Communication Barriers
Music in Therapeutic Practice: Using Rhythm to Bridge Communication Barriers builds upon an emerging awareness in psychotherapy that music can create therapeutic rapport with patients. Music has been... (more)
Sambadrama: The Arena of Brazilian Psychodrama
There are more active practitioners and teachers of psychodrama in Brazil than anywhere else in the world, with their own strong sense of community, history and tradition. In selecting and... (more)
The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children
The first approach to focus exclusively on the importance of observing nonverbal expression, "The Dancing Dialogue" shows early childhood professionals how to assess the behavior and movement of... (more)
Musical Excellence - Strategies and Techniques to Enhance Performance:
Offers performers, teachers, and researchers, new perspectives and practical guidance for enhancing performance and managing the stress that typically accompanies performance situations. It draws... (more)
Art Heals: How Creativity Cures The Soul
Presents a wide range of activities aimed at reviving art's traditional healing function and illuminates some progressive views in the rapidly expanding field of art therapy, including the practice... (more)
Musical Identities:
Just as music can be a channel through which we express ourselves, it can also have a profound influence on our own developing sense of identity. This book explores the powerful effect that music can... (more)
Laban for All
Rudolf Laban is a theorist and practitioner of movement, and this basic "how-to" manual offers a simplified version of his system of movement. It introduces the terms and vocabulary, then moves on to... (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)
Play Therapy with Adults
This timely guide covers healing through the use of a variety of play therapy techniques and methods. Various client groups and treatment settings are given special attention, including working with... (more)
Creative force: Arts-based exercises for work with young people around issues of violence
"Creative Force" looks at key issues around young people and violence - verbal violence, bullying, peer pressure, sexist and racist violence, physical or non-physical violence, domestic violence.... (more)
Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go
Shaun McNiff offers ways of exercising the creative spirit with different art forms including painting, sculpture, and performance art. (more)