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Columbia University Press Art on Trial
Trade ReviewArt on Trial is a testament to the potent power of art as evidence. David Gussak's masterful presentation of the case, the client, and the art explains the role and value of art therapy in a court of law. His book is a triumph for art as evidence, expounding the value of art therapists as expert witnesses in legal proceedings as well as the advantages that art therapy offers. -- Marcia Liebman, Drexel University David Gussak has written a fascinating and important first-person account demonstrating the value of art therapy in the courtroom. His book represents an extraordinary interdisciplinary effort and will surely become a must-read for professionals in the fields of art therapy, criminology, and abnormal psychology. -- Jack Levin, Northeastern University, author of Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers: Up Close and Personal and, with Gordana Rabrenovic, Why We HateTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Assessments, Art Therapy, and Forensics Part I. Art and the Murderer: A Case Study 1. How It Began 2. The Jailhouse Meeting 3. More Art and the Follow-up Part II. Defending the Art 4. The Deposition 5. The Testimony Part III. Analysis and Implications 6. The Case Study: Summary, Reflections, and Ethics 7. Art Therapists as Expert Witnesses: Three More Capital Cases 8. Forensic Art Therapy Revisited References
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WW Norton & Co Play and Creativity in Psychotherapy
Book SynopsisDistinguished clinicians demonstrate how play and creativity have everything to do with the deepest healing, growth and personal transformation.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Sound Changes Improvisation and Transcultural
Book SynopsisResponds to a need in improvisation studies for more work that addresses the diversity of global improvisatory practices and argues that by beginning to understand the particular, material experiences of sonic realities that are different from our own, we can address the host of other factors that are imparted or sublimated in performance.
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University of British Columbia Press ContactUnload
Book SynopsisThis book is a call to action to address the sometimes difficult transition many soldiers face when returning to civilian life. It explores the development, performance, and reception of Contact!Unload, a play that brings to life the personal stories of veterans returning from deployment overseas.The play presents an arts-based therapeutic approach to dealing with trauma. Researchers in theatre and group counselling collaborated with military veterans through a series of workshops to create and perform the work. Based on the lives of military veterans, it depicts ways of overcoming stress injuries encountered during service. The book, which includes the full script of the play, offers academic, artistic, personal, and theoretical perspectives from people directly involved in the performances of Contact!Unload as well as those who witnessed the work as audience members. The play and book serve as a model for using arts-based approaches to mental health care aTable of ContentsIntroduction / Graham W. Lea and George BelliveauPart 1: Researching, Developing, and Creating1 Staging War: Historical Contexts of Theatre and Social Health Initiatives with Veterans / Michael Balfour2 Contact!Unload: The Cauldron / Chuck MacKinnon3 Facilitating Therapeutic Change through Theatre Performance / Alistair G. Gordon, Marv Westwood, and Carson A. Kivari4 A Soldier’s Tale: “Nobody Understood What I’d Done” / Britney Dennison5 Listening through Stories: Insights into Writing Contact!Unload / Graham W. Lea6 Suicides to Sydney / Foster Eastman7 Coming Home / Tim Laidler8 Reconnaissance and Reclamation: Learning to Talk about the War / Anna Keefe9 Impact on Veteran Performers / George Belliveau, Blair McLean, and Christopher Cook10 Holding on to the Script / Phillip LoprestiContact!Unload: Annotated Playscript Part 2: Performing, Witnessing, and Evaluating11 Finding My Truth / Timothy Garthside12 Unpacking Contact!Unload Using Relational-Cultural Theory / Candace Marshall with Graham W. Lea13 Contact!Unload Revisited: Degrees of Separation / Lynn Fels14 Remembering / Carl Leggo15 A Poet(h)ic Reflection on Contact!Unload: Voices of Women Through War/ Heather Duff16 Soldiers Lead the Way in the Fight for Mental Health among Men / John S. Ogrodniczuk17 Audience Experience of Vicarious Witnessing in Performing War / Marion Porath, Marla Buchanan, and Elizabeth Banister18 Understanding the Impacts of Contact!Unload on Audiences / Jennica Nichols, Susan M. Cox, and George Belliveau19 Vulnerable Strength Seen / JS Valdez and Jennica NicholsConclusion / George Belliveau and Graham W. LeaContributors; Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Music, Medicine and Religion at the Ospedale di
Book SynopsisExplores the use of music as therapy and shows how it operated in the hospital's institutional, social and historical contexts, undergoing change in response to broader cultural and religious movements. This book explores connections between the physical care of the sick based on the study of medicine, concepts of healing founded on religious thought, and the practice of music at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito (Hospital of the Holy Spirit) in Rome. The hospital was a unique institution that was regulated by the Roman Catholic Church but simultaneously reflected the significant shifts in scientific thought emerging during the period that coincided with post-Tridentine reforms in the church. The volume discusses the hospital's foundation, architecture and links with the papacy. It also reflects on the then acceptable "ways of knowing" informed by religious concerns and medical traditions. The tripartite relationship between religion, medicine and music within the institution was complex. At times they existed side-by-side, at others they intersected. Drawing on extensive archival research such as financial records, decrees, records of apostolic visits and inventories as well as surviving musical sources (printed and manuscript), the book makes connections between intellectual beliefs about music and actual musical practices. It explores the early use of music as therapy and investigates the musical ideals and practices of the monastic regime which ran the hospital. In a wider sense, the book shows how music operated in the hospital's institutional, social and historical contexts, and how it underwent change over time in response to broader cultural and religious movements. NAOMI J. Barker is Senior Lecturer in Music at the Open University. She is the author of various articles on late-sixteenth and seventeenth-century music. This is her first book.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Editorial conventions and notes Abbreviations 1. The Hospital of Santo Spirito: history, architecture, administration 2. Music and medicine in the early modern world 3. The harmonious soul 4. Bernardino da Cirillo: the impact of humanism and reform 5. Music in the Church of Santo Spirito in the Seventeenth Century 6. Music for body and soul 7. Stefano Vai: The 1644 decree and retrospective reforms Appendix A. Virgilio Spada, 'Discorso sopra la musica della Chiesa' Appendix B. Stefano Vai, 'Decreta Observanda in Ecclesia S. Spiritus circa Sacras Functiones' Appendix C. Rubrica della chiesa collegiale e parocchiale di S. Spirito in Sassia di Roma Bibliography Index
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Emerald Publishing Limited Singing
Book SynopsisWe are 'hard-wired' to sing - singing has defined our evolution. Through singing we express our feelings, communicate and connect with others. We are all singers: singing is part of us and defines cultures worldwide. Singing also, importantly, makes us feel better: it is, undoubtedly, good for us. This book provides an important overview of current research showing the benefits of singing on our health and wellbeing. Case studies illustrate its power - for example, how singing helps hospitalised children and a man living with Parkinson's. The book also discusses potential barriers for singing and useful strategies needed to overcome them. An example of a community singing group is also demonstrated, alongside practical advice on facilitating community singing groups for health and wellbeing. The book will be valuable to professionals working in health and social care settings, to practitioners and educators interested in engaging in singing for health promotion, and individuals looking to find out more about the benefits and practicalities of singing.Trade Review'Singing is about participation. It is about being in the world. It is about wellbeing, everyday life, help and comfort. It is not for one minute about whether you have a "good" voice. It is not only about choir singing, pop music or opera. It is about taking part with your voice. This lovely book makes these points loud and clear.' -- Professor Tia DeNora‘This book on singing is very pleasurable and easy to read, and is written in an engaged, straight-forward, and competent manner. The book will provide an interesting and easily-understandable introduction to laypeople with no prior knowledge on singing and the “arts for health” movement, and will also be relevant and useful reading for health practitioners, singing and music professionals, and even experienced researchers.’ -- Mette KaasgaardTable of ContentsChapter 1: Why Singing?Chapter 2: Singing to Survive Chapter 3: Case Examples of Singing as Recovery Chapter 4: Overcoming Barriers to Singing Chapter 5: Engaging with Singing
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Creative Therapy 2: Working with Parents
Book SynopsisThis practical book outlines ways of working with parents, gaining rapport and creating useful resource materials for use in therapy sessions. Example activities, worksheets and handouts are provided, covering a wide range of children's problems and how parents can help them.Trade Review‘Clearly written, well-organized and informative.’ – Dr. Andrew Tolmie, Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde, UK Review of Creative Therapy: Activities with Children and Adolescents: ‘As a handbook of useful techniques which can be added to the therapeutic armoury of the eclectic therapist, this book is invaluable.’ – Young Minds magazineTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Creating Rapport. . 2. Assessment. . 3. Sharing Information. . 4. Making Progress. . 5. Developing a Plan. . 6. Creating autonomy. . 7. Parents with different needs or circumstances. . 8. Conclusion. . 9. Appendix I - activities. . 10. Appendix II - information sheets. . 11. Appendix III - Record charts. References. Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Dealing with Difficulities in Rational Emotive
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the manifold difficulties that both client and therapist bring to Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). It offers ways of tackling difficulties that will assist their resolution and thereby help to build a productive and less stressful therapeutic relationship.Table of ContentsClient Difficulties. Buidling a Therapeutic Alliance. Accepting The abc Model. Establishing Goals. Carrying out Tasks. A Process-orientated View of client Difficulties. Therapist Difficulties. Forming and Maintaining a therapeutic Alliance. Teaching or Accepting The ABC Model. Therapist Tasks. A compendium of Therapist Problems. A Process-orientated View of Therapist difficulties.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Promoting Health Through Creativity: For
Book SynopsisThis book is about redefining the value to health of creativity. Creativity derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is needed for survival. The successful use of creativity generates feelings of pleasure and self-esteem that are beneficial to health. In particular, it can help depression. Current values do not give adequate importance to creativity, and the author challenges these values in this book. The book contains contributed chapters on a theory of creativity as an innate capacity, the therapeutic benefits of creativity, factors that encourage or inhibit creativity and current research on these, and accounts of creativity both as individual projects and as groupwork.Table of ContentsContributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1 Promoting Health Through Creativity - an Introduction. (Therese Schmid). Chapter 2 A Theory of creativity - an Innate Capacity. (Therese Schmid). Chapter 3 Occupational Genesis - Creativity and Health. (Estelle B. Breines). Chapter 4 The Therapeutic Benefits of Creativity. (Jennifer Creek). Chapter 5 Factors That Encourage or Inhibit creativity. (Frances Reynolds). Chapter 6 The Effects of Creativity on Physical and Psychological Well-being. (Frances Reynolds). Chapter 7 Individual Accounts on The Effect of Creative Activity on health and well-being. (Compiled and edited by Therese Schmid). Chapter 8 Integrating The firelight of Creativity. Sally Denshire). Chapter 9 Group Projects - Experiences and Outcomes of creativity. (Compiled and edited by Therese Schmid). Chapter 10 What is to be Done? (Therese Schmid). Index.
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Sensory World Songames for Sensory Processing: 25
Book SynopsisProvides musical activities for improving fine and gross motor skills, muscle strength, and rhythmicity. These 25 therapist created Songames offer a world of developmental play activities. Plus, the 53 page companion booklet explains how to use music to enhance specific skills, provides a comprehensive list of resources, and triples the number of therapeutic ways to use the games!
£22.46
Taylor & Francis The Clinic of Donald W. Winnicott
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Taylor & Francis The Clinic of Donald W. Winnicott
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Creative Therapist in Practice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Epiphanies Individuation and Human Flourishing
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance Volume Two Brazil West Africa South and South East Asia United Kingdom and the Arab World Routledge Companions
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Taylor & Francis Teachers in Early Modern English Drama Pedagogy and Authority Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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Taylor & Francis Addressing Issues of Mental Health in Schools through the Arts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Archetypal Artist
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Life and Legacy of Robert Ault Art Therapy Pioneer
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jana Sanskriti
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jana Sanskriti
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Life and Legacy of Robert Ault Art Therapy Pioneer
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Experiential Action Methods and Tools for Healing Grief and LossRelated Trauma Life Death and Transformation
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Taylor & Francis Psychoanalysis Intersubjective Writing and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind I Woke Up Dead Art Creativity and Psychoanalysis Book Series
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Taylor & Francis How Music Empowers Listening to Modern Rap and Metal
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Taylor & Francis Applying Body Mapping in Research An ArtsBased Method
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Outdoor Therapies
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Taylor & Francis On Access in Applied Theatre and Drama Education
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Arts Therapies and New Challenges in Psychiatry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd SolutionFocused Play Therapy A StrengthsBased Clinical Approach to Play Therapy
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Taylor & Francis Juvenile Justice and Expressive Arts
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Taylor & Francis Music as Care Artistry in the Hospital Environment CMS Emerging Fields in Music
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Play Therapy Theories and Perspectives
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Play Therapy Theories and Perspectives
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Taylor & Francis Dancing Across Borders
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Art Therapy Dreams and Healing Beyond the Looking Glass
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Art Therapy and Career Counseling
Book SynopsisArt Therapy and Career Counseling is a comprehensive career development guide that offers creative approaches for understanding, assessing, and supporting ethical career development strategies.This book expands on traditional approaches by adding a robust art therapy lens to topics such as career development theories, relational approaches, career resource identification, multicultural concerns, and ethical practices. Additionally, research and practice findings of art therapists, counselors, psychologists, educators, and students are utilized as sources for career-centered art-based strategies.Art therapy educators, art therapists, counselors, and psychologists will appreciate creative approaches to teaching and applying career development through the lifespan.Trade Review"Drs. Parker-Bell and Osborn provide readers with a meticulously organized book that promotes art therapy and career counseling collaborations. This book is timely and inspiring for practitioners wishing to creatively engage students or clients in career exploration."Patricia D. Isis, PhD, LMHC-QS, ATR-BC, ATCS, certified mindful self-compassion teacher"Many of us have clients who get stuck in the logical side of the brain when considering careers. Art therapy interventions have the power to push them into the creative side where inspiration lives. This book explores many career theories through the lens of art and creativity." Lisa Severy, PhD, NCDA, certified career counselor"This book is a definite YES for career counseling courses and will be a wonderful resource for both practitioners and students. A shining example of interdisciplinary collaboration, this remarkable synthesis of career counseling and art therapy will aid clients to visualize their career path, goals, and obstacles more clearly." Gail Rule, MEd, ATR-BC, LPC-S, LICDC-S, professor at Ursuline CollegeTable of Contents1. Introduction: Art Therapy and Career Counseling: Harnessing Creative Strategies to Promote Career Exploration, Career Satisfaction, and Mental Health 2. Main Theories of Career Counseling and the Integration of Art Therapy Theories and Practices 3. Ethical Issues in Art Therapy and Career Counseling 4. The Role of Assessment in Art Therapy and Career Counseling 5. Relational Development and Processes in Art Therapy and Career Counseling 6. Diversity and Social Justice in Career Counseling and Art Therapy 7. School-Based Career Counseling and Art Therapy 8. Positive Psychology in Career Development and Art Therapy: Emphasizing Strengths 9. Career Decision-Making 10. Using Creativity to Support the Client Job Search Process 11. Exploring and Supporting Clients’ Use of Resources and Information 12. Exploring and Supporting Career Development with People Living with Disabilities 13. Using Creativity to Understand and Support Career Transitions 14. Art Therapy and Career Counseling Program Design and Evaluation 15. Art Therapist/Career Counselor Self-Assessment: Am I Ready for Practice? Appendix: Career Counseling Art-Based Interventions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Art Therapy and Career Counseling
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Applied Theatre in Paediatrics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Applied Theatre in Paediatrics
Book SynopsisThis book explores applied theatre practice for children in environments of illness and cure and how it can powerfully normalise children's hospitalisation experience. It is an essential tool for making meaning of children's illness, putting it into a fictional context and developing better control of their clinical experiences. It can be central to raising the standards of care and quality of life during illness. Taken from the author's research and participatory bedside theatre practice in hospitals before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, this book demonstrates new learning about aesthetics, ethics, emotions, stories, puppetry, digital arts and research methodologies about children's health and wellbeing. It provides a selection of ten unique stories told by children inspired by applied theatre practice in paediatrics, cardiac, oncology, neurosurgery, burns units and complex and intensive care wards. Stories aid in understanding the language of children's paiTrade Review“Applied Theatre in Paediatrics, Stories, Children and Synergies of Emotions" by Professor Persephone Sextou is a singular triumph in the realm of paediatric theatre and emotional healing. It underscores the critical importance of nurturing emotional well-being in our youngest generation and leaves readers deeply inspired to embark on their own transformative journeys. Highly recommended for anyone looking to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children through the potent combination of creativity and empathy.Stelios KiossesPsychotherapistInstructor and Faculty, Harvard University Extension SchoolTable of Contents1. Hospitalised children’s stories in applied theatre 2. Applied theatre and digital assets on the wards 3. Sick Children’s stories: from patients to story-makers 4. Applied performance, puppetry and hospital tuition 5. Caring enough is never enough: Training actors on emotional Skills 6. The Future: questions and recommendations Appendix A: ‘Rocket-Arts’ or "Simba, the Therapy Dog". The script. Appendix B: "Simba, the Therapy Dog". A digital adaptation. Appendix C: "Lollie the rough collie and the magic kiss". The story.
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Taylor & Francis Understanding the Dream Sociogram Transformational Patterns of Intrasocial Preference
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Educating Musicians for Sustainability
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Experience The Theatre of Marina Carr and Contemporary Psychology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Experience
Book SynopsisThe Art of Experience provides an interdisciplinary analysis of selected plays from Ireland's premier female playwright, Marina Carr.Dagmara Gizlo explores the transformative impact of a theatrical experience in which interdisciplinary boundaries must be crossed. This book demonstrates that theatre is therapeutic and therapy is theatrical. The role of emotions, cognitions, and empathy in the theatrical experience is investigated throughout. Dagmara Gizlo utilises the methodological tools stemming from modern empirically grounded psychology (such as cognitive-behavioural therapy or CBT) to the study of theatre's transformative potential.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, performance, and literature, and will be a fascinating read for those at the intersection of cognitive studies and the humanities.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Crossing the disciplinary boundaries: the cognitive turn in drama, theatre, and performance research 2. Theatre and psychotherapy 3. Emotions, cognition, and empathy in the theatrical experience 4. The theatre of Marina Carr: an interdisciplinary study
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Teaching Drama With Without and About Gender
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Teaching Drama With Without and About Gender
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