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Environmental Expressive Therapies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Environmental Expressive Therapies

Environmental Expressive Therapies contributes to the emerging phenomenon of eco-arts therapy by highlighting the work that international expressive arts therapists have accomplished to establish a framework for incorporating nature as a partner in creative/expressive arts therapy practices. Each of the contributors explores a particular specialization and outlines the implementation of multi-professional and multi-modal "earth-based" creative/expressive interventions that practitioners can use in their daily work with patients with various clinical needs. Different forms of creative/expressive practices—such as creative writing, play therapy techniques, visual arts, expressive music, dramatic performances, and their combinations with wilderness and animal-assisted therapy—are included in order to maximize the spectrum of treatment options. Environmental Expressive Therapies represents a variety of practical approaches and tools for therapists to use to achieve multiple treatment goals and promote sustainable lifestyles for individuals, families, and communities.

Ecopoiesis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Ecopoiesis

This book emphasises ecological, nature-assisted expressive and creative arts and art therapies within the context of the current ecological crises. Rich in fresh theoretical perspectives, this timely compendium of theory, research, and practice also provides methods and tools that can help the reader understand and incorporate new eco perspectives into their work. Building on the concept of poiesis as the human creative function, this book seeks to stress the importance of humanity's ecopoietic capacity, creating a more sustainable life for humans. It has been specifically created within the context of this most critical period of human existence, and acts as a forum for innovation based on the values of the environmental movement and its desire to address the extensive sociopsychological impact of the ecological crisis.

  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

"Green Studio"

This collection of articles embraces theoretical and practical issues related to the emerging phenomenon of 'nature-based creative arts therapies', or 'eco-arts therapies/environmental arts therapies'. Due to the negative effects of some aspects of technological development upon various social and environmental processes, the relationship between human beings and nature has received more recognition. The growing field of eco-psychology reflects this attitude in its developing social-therapeutic environmental philosophy, claiming that reconnection with nature is essential not only for the maintenance of the physical world, but for people's well-being and happiness. Many writers have written a...

The Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

The Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-06-21
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Art can be an invaluable means of communication. It can bypass language and impairment and allow for the expression of thoughts or feelings too difficult to communicate with words. In The Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story, Rawley Silver draws on her years of experience using therapeutic art with hearing-impaired children, stroke patients, and others with learning disabilities or emotional disturbances. The book’s original art assessments use stimulus drawings to elicit responses that provide access to a patient’s emotions and attitudes toward themselves and others, while also testing for the ability to solve problems and convey ideas. Offering tools to assess cognitive skills that oft...

Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book provides a foundation in phototherapy and therapeutic photography. It provides overviews from different approaches and contexts, including phototherapy, re-enactment phototherapy, community phototherapy, self-portraiture.

Exposing Difference
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 86

Exposing Difference

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Aggression and Depression Assessed Through Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Aggression and Depression Assessed Through Art

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book investigates the connections between a child's expression through drawing and their violent behavior. It also explores the potential of the Draw a Story Test for use as an early identifier of children and adolescents at risk for depression.

Abstract Book of the 5th European Arts Therapies Conference
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Abstract Book of the 5th European Arts Therapies Conference

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Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 151

Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-03-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Popular interest in body image issues has grown dramatically in recent years, due to an emphasis on individual responsibility and self-determination in contemporary society as well as the seemingly limitless capacities of modern medicine; however body image as a separate field of academic inquiry is still relatively young. The contributors of Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies explore the complex social, political and aesthetic interconnections between body image and identity. It is an in-depth study that allows for new perspectives in the analysis of contemporary visual art and literature but also reflects on how these social constructs inform clinical treatment. Sukhanova an...

Art as Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Art as Language

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Through the use of case studies and more than 150 illustrations of patient artwork, this book summarizes findings of cognitive development and art therapy practices.