Creative Family Therapy Techniques:
Play, Art & Expressive Activities to Engage Children in Family Sessions
by Augustus Y. Napier and Liana Lowenstein
Bringing together an array of highly creative contributors, this comprehensive resource presents a unique collection of assessment and treatment techniques. The contributors illustrate how play, art, drama, and other approaches can effectively engage families and help them resolve complex problems. Practitioners from divergent theoretical orientations, work settings, or client specialisations will find a plethora of stimulating and useable clinical interventions in this book.
by Cathy Malchiodi
Newly updated and revised, this authoritative guide shows you how to use art therapy to guide yourself and others on a special path of personal growth, insight, and transformation. Cathy A. Malchiodi, a leading expert in the field, gives you step-by-step instructions for stimulating creativity and interpreting the resulting art pieces. This encouraging and effective method can help you and others recover from pain and become whole again.
by Judith Aron Rubin
Along with the useful techniques and activities described, numerous case studies taken from Rubin's years of practice add a vital dimension to the text, exploring how art therapy works in the real world of children's experience. Original artwork from clients and the author illuminate the material throughout. Written by an internationally recognized art therapist, Child Art Therapy, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition is a comprehensive guide for learning about, practicing, and refining child art therapy.
by Marian Liebmann
Lieberman's book is in its 3rd printing for good reason: practitioners have found it to be immensely useful and practical. The first part contains discussions of the field of art therapy, stories and examples from practice, and extensive considerations on working with a wide range of groups, including psychiatric In- and Day patients, the elderly, staff groups, ex-offenders, mixed groups of children and adults, women's groups, and many others.
The second part is full of roll-up-your-sleeves ideas. They include activities and games for all kinds of groups (an entire chapter is devoted to group painting), considerations of media, and stimulating concepts to start things moving.
This bibliography is definitive and usefully grouped by chapter. Both sections of the book benefit from pictures of groups at work, as well as many examples of art made using the exercises in the book.
by Caroline Case and Tessa Dalley
"...an accessible and useful resource for any clinician who wants to know more about art therapy or who wants to better understand clients' artwork in treatment or therapy....The handbook covers the gamut of art therapy applications in a variety of settings. Readers are likely to find several chapters that correspond with their own interests....Handbook of Art Therapy is a welcome addition to the art therapy literature. It is a useful reference and a readable, intersting book to browse."--Psychiatric Services Review
by Caroline Case and Tessa Dalley
A collection of ten generously illustrated papers by experienced art therapists, each working within a specialized field but also as a part of professional team. Each paper shows how the art process, in a sensitive therapeutic relationship, can reveal both the inner world of the child and his or her experiences of the outer world, offering another language in which to express feelings about whatever has brought the child to therapy.
by Dr. Mitchell Gaynor
Uplifting melodies performed on keyboards, harmonium and thumb piano are blended with world percussion, Sanskrit chants and the healing sounds of Tibetan singing bowls. Listening and even chanting along with this inspiring recording will help you to create both inner and outer harmony as you connect with your own natural source of health, vitality and well being. Clinical studies demonstrate that sound and guided imagery meditation can boost the immune system, decrease stress hormones, lower heart rate and blood pressure, and induce alpha and theta brainwave patterns which are associated with the production of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers.
by Diane Waller
The first theoretical formulation of a model which integrates the change-enhancing factors of both group psychotherapy and art therapy. Shows how the model works in practice through a series of case examples.
by Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd
The impact of political violence, war, terrorism and oppressive regimes on the individuals involved can be extensive. Art therapy can provide an effective means of expressing the resulting experiences of fear, loss, separation, instability and disruption which, left unexplored, can have devastating effects. With contributions from Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Israel and South Africa, Art Therapy and Political Violence includes numerous clinical examples to vividly illustrate the main issues affecting art therapy with victims of conflict.
by Marian Liebmann
This book shows a collection of games, practical exercises and techniques to be used by people who work with clients who have a wide range of disorders. They are specifically designed to enhance an aspect of the client's personality.
by Phil Jones
The separate arts therapies--drama, art, music and dance--are becoming available to increasing numbers of clients, as mental health professionals discover the potential of the arts therapies to reach and help people. But what are the arts therapies, and what do they offer clients? The Arts Therapies provides in one volume a guide to the different disciplines and their current practice and thinking. It presents:
* A clear analysis of the relationship between therapist, client and art form
* Exploration of the practice and key contributions made to the field by practitioners internationally and within
many different contexts
* Discussion of how the arts therapies relate to established health services
by Susan I. Buchalter
It can be difficult to be spontaneous during every art therapy group. It is helpful to have a resource full of creative and inspiring ideas that can be utilized as needed. This broad-ranging collection of projects injects variety into art therapy sessions. A Practical Art Therapy is written in an easy-to-read format that is filled with practical creative experiences for therapists to use with individuals and groups. Chapters cover various media and methods, including murals, collages, sculpture and drawing, making it easily accessible for even the busiest therapist. Susan Buchalter includes practical art projects using everyday objects, and follows them through with a list of materials needed, a procedure plan and aims of the project. The creative exercises draw on situations and ideas that children and adults can relate to - for example, drawing wishes and goals, sculpting their own stress and creating a collage self-portrait. The author suggests ways of expanding art-making activities, such as drawing to music and creating personal logos. This book is suitable for those new to the arts therapies field, practising art therapists, counselors and social workers.
by Diane Waller
Arts Therapies and Progressive Illness is a guide to the use of arts therapies in the treatment of patients with diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. In the last few years arts therapies have been used in an increasingly wide range of applications with new groups of patients, such as patients in palliative care, or with learning disabilities - Diane Waller has been a driving force behind this expansion. Together with an impressive array of contributors, Waller covers treatments such as art therapy, dance movement therapy and music therapy.
by Jenny Murphy
Dealing with the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse remains one of the major issues in child and adolescent mental health. Yet, until now, little has been written for art therapists and related professionals involved in this sensitive field. Art Therapy with Young Survivors of Sexual Abuse is a guide to practice with this group. Containing a range of illustrative case material from both individual and group therapy, the book addresses the important issues faced by professionals, including: Assessment using art therapy; Male therapist countertransference; The therapist's relationship with the client's family and wider networks; Using other art materials such as sand and water; The value of art therapy with groups.
by Judith Aron Rubin
Brings together the foundations and the practice of art therapy. Illustrates how various approaches to psychotherapy are applied in art therapy and presents therapeutic possibilities and an understanding of theoretical constructs. Includes new chapters and commentary on object relations. Previous edition: c1987.
by Joy Schaverien
Desire and the Female Therapist is an exploration of desire in the transference and countertransference in clinical practice, particularly the erotic transference experienced between the female therapist and the male client. While this transference is frequently understood as a maternal response to the infantile origins of the transference, author Joy Schaverien acknowledges that adult sexual feelings are often central in the dynamic as well. If these feelings are left unacknowledged, there is potential for unconscious acting out and resulting sexual abuse.
The countertransference effects of the meeting of gazes of artist/picture/therapist are investigated, drawing on psychoanalytic and aesthetic theory, particularly Lacan, Winnicott and Jung. This leads to a significant new approach to pictures in therapy through the development of the "aesthetic countertransference." Richly illustrated with pictures, as well as clinical vignettes, Desire and the Female Therapist follows on from Schaverien's innovative book The Revealing Image. It connects psychotherapy and art therapy theory and offers a new contribution to both.
by Liesl Silverstone
This text demonstrates that by bringing the person-centred facilitative approach to art therapy, healing and integration can occur for all clients. Following a class of students through a year-long course on the person-centred approach, it provides a guide to this therapeutic method.
by Helen B. Landgarten
An integrated guide to the entire range of clinical art therapy. Its scope is immense, covering every age range in a variety of settings from schools and outpatient clinics to psychiatric hospitals and private treatment. Of special value are the extensive case studies and 148 illustrations.