Art Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience
Art Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience combines theory, research, and practice with traumatized populations in a neuroscience framework. Recognizing the importance of understanding both art therapy and trauma studies as brain-based interventions, s...
Conscious Creativity cards
Craving more moments of intentional creative clarity and fun? These inspiring prompt cards are a joyful reminder to slow down, be mindful and embrace the random beauty and synchronicity in the everyday. Portable, interactive, multi-purpose, calmin...
Den strandade båten : en inre resa med bilder utförda i bildpsykoterapi
Eva Hällnert Blom vill lyfta fram bilden som en kraft, ett eget språk i kombination med orden, det verbala språket. Båda aspekterna är av vikt, det finns ett ömsesidigt beroende dem emellan.Det är bildens förmåga att skapa en bro mellan den...
The Handbook of Music Therapy
Music therapists work with children and adults of all ages with wide-ranging health-care needs. This handbook traces the history of recent developments in music therapy and the range of current applications and outlines practical requirements for ...
The Expressive Arts Activity Book, 2nd edition
This resource comprises a collection of accessible, flexible, tried-and-tested activities for use with people in a range of care and therapy settings, to help them explore their knowledge of themselves and to make sense of their experiences....
Exhale
More energy, less stress, better sleep, happier lives. Isn't that what we all wish we had more of? Well, the solution is, quite literally, under your nose: your breath. From leading Breathwork practitioner, Richie Bostock, comes Exhale - a guide t...
Art Psychotherapy
The long-awaited new edition of the landmark text defining art therapy Art therapists use the creative process and the issues that surface during art therapy to help their clients increase insight and judgment, cope with stress, work through traum...
A Therapeutic Library
There are about 130 million books in the world and they are being added to at a rate of 4 million a year or so. Which ones, therefore, should we really read? What are the books that count? Which ones are going to make a real difference to us in th...
How to Draw Anything
As children, when we learn to write, we gain an important life skill - a practical means of communicating that we end up using almost every day of our lives, if only to jot down a shopping list or dash out an email. As children, we also know insti...
Creativity
____________________________We can all be more creative. John Cleese shows us how.Creativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess. John Cleese begs to differ, and in this short, immensely practical and often very ...
Craft in Art Therapy
Craft in Art Therapy is the first book dedicated to illustrating the incorporation of craft materials and methods into art therapy theory and practice. Contributing authors provide examples of how they have used a range of crafts including pottery...
Planning Process Drama
Process drama is now firmly established, internationally, as a powerful and dynamic pedagogy. This clear and accessible book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to the planning of process drama. Grounded in theory and illustrated in practice,...
Art Therapy Cards for Children
These 22 colorful cards and accompanying booklet provide creative ideas for art therapy with children aged 4 - 11. Each card gives a different prompt - from "draw yourself as a superhero" to "paint freely with your finge...
How to Play the Piano
Learn to play one of Bach's most exquisite preludes in just 6 weeks, even if you have never played the piano before.An accessible and inspiring book by the pianist and international bestselling writer James Rhodes, who promises that it gives anyon...
Creative Engagement in Palliative Care
This book offers an extensive range of ideas and practical developing service users' creativity including songmaking, drama, dance, creative writing, music, video and visual arts. It promotes innovation and encourages a fresh and enthusia...
Music for Special Kids
Music is a powerful means of engaging children with developmental disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorders, Down's Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy. This lively music activity book shows how music can be an effective and enjoyable way to enhance ...
Drama and Social Justice
"e;This text offers a cohesive framework for exploring social justice through drama and drama from a social justice perspective. Research based examples of practice from a range of international contexts link theory and practice. Connectin...
Meaning in the Making
Become inspired, find your voice, and create work that matters.Why are human beings driven to make?It's as if we collectively intuited, long before science gave us the language, that the universe bends toward entropy, and every act of creation on ...
Play Therapy
Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship is the newest incarnation of Garry Landreths comprehensive text on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play. It details the Child-Centered Play Therapy model, which stresses the import...
Communing with Music
Through the ages, music has proven to be one of the few common links that connects humanity despite language barriers or cultural influences. The purpose of music could then be considered a medium of communication that has evolved into an art form...
Dramatherapy: Theory and Practice 2
Dramatherapy: Theory and Practice 2 provides both clinician and theatre artist with a basic overview of recent developments in dramatherapy. The international contributors, all practising dramatherapists or psychotherapists, offer a wide variety o...
Handbook of Arts-Based Research
Bringing together interdisciplinary leaders in methodology and arts-based research (ABR), this comprehensive handbook explores the synergies between artistic and research practices and addresses issues in designing, implementing, evaluating, and p...
Little Windows into Art Therapy
Newly qualified art therapists often feel daunted by the challenge of actually being face-to-face with a client and are unsure how to progress after the first image has been created. In this honest and encouraging book, Deborah Schroder explains h...
Drawing the Line
This resourceful guide presents art therapy techniques for difficult clients where the typical therapist-client interaction can often be distant, demanding, and frustrating. Offering practical and theoretical information from a wide variety of tre...
Art Therapy with Physical Conditions
As the emotional components of physical illnesses become more recognised, there is a renewed interest in the potential of art therapy to help patients come to terms with injury, pain and terminal and life-long conditions.A wide range of experience...
Positive Art Therapy Theory and Practice
Positive Art Therapy Theory and Practice outlines a clear, systematic approach for combining positive psychology with art therapy s capacity to mobilize client strengths; induce engagement, flow and positive emotions; transform perceptions; build ...
Using Art Therapy with Diverse Populations
Whether working in urban areas with high levels of cultural diversity, providing art therapy to 'unique' populations such as prisoners or asylum seekers, or introducing art therapy programs to parts of the world in which it is no...
Exhale
More energy, less stress, better sleep, happier lives. Isn't that what we all wish we had more of? Well, the solution is, quite literally, under your nose: your breath. From leading Breathwork practitioner, Richie Bostock, comes Exhale - a guide t...
Singing
We 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, mak...
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Widening Field
This is a handbook for working in the creative arts, with an emphasis on imagination and receptivity: to our bodies, surroundings, materials, and to what we create. It puts particular emphasis upon the sensing, feeling, moving body as a basis for ...
Good Dog
Celebratory, joyous and moving, this is a book about the profoundly healing, curative qualities of dogs - and how we need dogs in our lives more than ever. The dog-human bond is the most extraordinary cross-species friendship on the planet. Dogs g...
Happiness Journal
From the publishers of the bestselling The Wellbeing Journal comes the follow-up, The Happiness Journal. Filled with empowering quotes and affirmations along with practical exercises and tips, this journal will encourage you to reflect upon the mo...
Empirical Musicology
This book provides a practical guide to empirical approaches that are ready for incorporation in the contemporary musicologist's toolkit, including perspectives from music theory, computational musicology, thnomusicology, and the psychology and so...
Empirical Musicology
This book provides a practical guide to empirical approaches that are ready for incorporation in the contemporary musicologist's toolkit, including perspectives from music theory, computational musicology, ethnomusicology, and the psychology and s...
Therapy Chickens
Find encouragement and inspiration with 50 bits of wisdom from adorable, charming, and fluffy therapy chickens. Life can be profound but also funny, exasperating, and downright weird-much like living with a flock of hens. Drawing inspiration from her own flock, author Tedra Hamel's charming chicken art will make you laugh and teach you to be a good companion. With 50 bits of wisdom throughout this beautifully illustrated book, you will learn how to explore curiosity, embrace your true self, and let go of what holds you back. Some bits of wisdom from these adorable chickens include: Even if you can't fly, don't be afraid to stretch your wings. You may just get off the ground after all! Listen to the squawk of others. There really may be a hawk flying overhead. You don't have to have a huge house and lots of possessions to be happy. Your small coop is adorable, comfortable, and a wonderful home. Don't be afraid to put yourself out there. Connect with others and find your flock. Organized by season, these bits of wisdom will teach life lessons all year round. Embrace the advice from Therapy Chickens, and learn to be a little happier every day.
Pocket Scavenger
Welcome to the highly inspirational world of Keri Smith. Within the pages of The Pocket Scavenger, readers will be instructed to collect a spectrum of quirky items: something that is miniature, a stain that is green, something from the year you we...
Marion Milner
This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better--and what they have to do with one another. The British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1996) thought deeply about how reading, drawing, and getting better related t...