{"product_id":"arts-therapies-and-progressive-illness-9780415219808","title":"Arts Therapies and Progressive Illness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eArts Therapies and Progressive Illness\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eThis book covers treatment such as art therapy, dance movement therapy and music therapy. In addition to dealing with a wide range of debilitating diseases, it focuses on the issue of the care and treatment of dementia and the effects on patients, carers and staff and the role of the arts therapies in improving the quality of life for the increasing number of patients who will sadly develop this distressing illness.\u003cbr\u003eThis broadly focused, multi-disciplinary book will be of great interest to arts therapists, arts therapy educators, medical, social work and other \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'By a number of measures, this is an important and wide-ranging book. Ostensibly about dementia and the contribution that arts therapists can make to relieving the 'nameless dread' that lies behind dementia's implacable tread, a cursory reading will quickly reveal that topics broached extend far beyond these ostensible limits.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eFrom the foreword by Robin Higgins, former lecturer at Goldsmith's College and the Laban Centre for Dance and Movement, London\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHiggins,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWaller,\u003c\/em\u003e Arts Therapies, Progressive Illness, Dementia - the Difficulty of Being. \u003cem\u003eEvans,\u003c\/em\u003e In the Waiting Room of the Grim Reaper. \u003cem\u003eBunce,\u003c\/em\u003e The Living Death: Dance Movement Therapy with Parkinson's Patients. \u003cem\u003eCossio,\u003c\/em\u003e Art Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Invalidating Conditions: From Parkinson's Disease to Alzheimer's. \u003cem\u003eMagee,\u003c\/em\u003e Case Studies in Huntington's Disease: Music Therapy Assessment and Treatment in the Early to Advanced Stages. \u003cem\u003eTyler,\u003c\/em\u003e Art Therapy with Older Adults Clinically Diagnosed as Having Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias. \u003cem\u003eEvans,\u003c\/em\u003e Real World or Fantasy? \u003cem\u003eWaller,\u003c\/em\u003e Living with Dementia: Interview with Neil McArthur. \u003cem\u003eFalk,\u003c\/em\u003e A Narrowed Sense of Space: An Art Therapy Group with Young Alzheimer's Sufferers. \u003cem\u003eWaller,\u003c\/em\u003e Evaluating the Use of Art Therapy for Older People with Dementia: A Control Group Study. \u003cem\u003eWaller,\u003c\/em\u003e Changing the Context of Care: Opening up the System; Interview with Kamal Beeharee. \u003cem\u003eTingey,\u003c\/em\u003e Art as a Therapy for Parkinson's. \u003cem\u003e Jerrome,\u003c\/em\u003e Circles of the Mind: The Use of Therapeutic Circle Dance with Older People with Dementia. \u003cem\u003eWaller,\u003c\/em\u003e Nameless Dread - A Carer's Story. \u003cstrong\u003eIndex.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402077413719,"sku":"9780415219808","price":131.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/arts-therapies-and-progressive-illness-9780415219808","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}