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9781853020582: Art Therapy in Practice

Synopsis

In the last few years the number of art therapists has grown significantly and the ranges of different contexts where their skills are valued has broadened enormously. This has brought art therapists into contact with many members of the other caring professions, who need and want to know more about art therapy and its benefits for their clients.

There is increasing interest in the use of the arts generally, with disadvantaged people of all kinds. This may include joining in arts activities and also the more personal process of art therapy. The benefits to the people involved may be far-reaching, increasing a sense of self-worth and the ability to communicate. New ways of working are being developed all the time, and art therapists are pushing out the boundaries as they do this. This book describe what actually happens in art therapy in a variety of contexts, as practised by particular art therapists.

The contributors to this volume all work and live in the same geographical region and have evolved their aims as a group. Between them they cover a wide variety of client groups: acute and long-term psychiatric patients, psychogeriatric patients, mentally handicapped people with psychiatric problems, children with psychological problems, offenders in the community and homeless people.

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À propos de l'auteur

Marian Liebmann (has worked in education, art therapy, victim support and probation, and has been involved in community, victim-offender and schools mediation. For eight years she worked for Mediation UK, the umbrella organisation for mediation, as director and projects adviser. She has written/edited seven books in the fields of art therapy, mediation and conflict resolution, and contributed chapters to many others. She currently divides her time between freelance mediation training, art therapy, supervision and writing. John Ford is Head Art Therapist at Glenside Hospital where he has worked for the last ten years. Roy Thornton is Senior Art Therapist at Barrow Hospital. Claire Skailes has, for the last fifteen years, worked as Art Therapist at Coney Hill Psychiatric Hospital, Gloucester, where she is now Head of Department. Sarah Lewis is a community-based art therapist in adult psychiatry for the Northern Sector of Southmead Health District in Bristol. Karen Drucker works in a community out-patient unit in Southmead Health Authority. Tish Feilden has a private psychotherapy practice and runs art therapy groups as a separate part of this. Edward Kuczaj is Senior Art Therapist at Hortham Hospital, Southmead Health Authority. Clare Swainson is a worker with Bristol's Inner City Mental Health Project and has developed art therapy with homeless people.

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9781853020575: Art Therapy in Practice

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ISBN 10 :  1853020575 ISBN 13 :  9781853020575
Editeur : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1989
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