Full Description
Social Work and the Arts: Expanding Horizons is a collection of writings that explores how expressive methods are used in social work education, practice, research, and community action. Edited by Shelley Cohen Konrad and Michal Sela-Amit, the book aims to answer the question: What do the arts offer social work education, research, and practice?
This query is woven throughout the four sections of the book: first, on the various ways the arts are used in social work education; second, an examination of art-based social work research; third, a compilation of narratives by social workers who are artists in their own right; and finally, the future of the social work profession and its relationship to the arts.
Written by authors from diverse backgrounds, each with a unique perspective on the benefits of the arts in their respective areas of expertise, Social Work and the Arts is a must-read for anyone interested in the arts and social work and for those who are just beginning to explore its relevance in the field.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Art & Education: Its Many Forms
Chapter 1: Worth a Thousand Words: A Bio-cognitive-spiritual Framework for Arts in Social Work Education
Peter Szto
Chapter 2: Art in Translation: Addressing Challenging Emotions from Classroom to Practice
Shelley Cohen Konrad & Michal Sela-Amit
Chapter 3: Expressive Arts Within a Liberation Psychology Framework in Field Education
Rafael Angulo
Chapter 4: Creative Arts in Social Work Education: 'Good Ideas', Domains, and Activities
Lori Power
Chapter 5: Social Work & the Arts: Through the Student Lens
Emily Frumkin, Brianna Lear, Jennifer Schoch, Sydney Siegel, Shefali Dutt, & Max Deeb
Part II. Arts & Research: Learning With and From Each Other
Chapter 6: A Vision for Arts-Based Social Work Research
Rogério M. Pinto, Ephrat Huss, & Mimi V. Chapman
Chapter 7: Affinity between the Aims of Social Work and the Mechanisms of Arts-Based Research
Ephrat Huss
Chapter 8: Conducting Online Research in the Era of COVID: Theater-Based Methods to Study HIV-Stigma
Marc Arthur & Rogério M. Pinto
Part III. Practice In Community: The Arts & Social Work
Chapter 9: Creating Comics on the Curb
Katy Finch
Chapter 10: Coming Fully into the Present: How the Arts Have Shaped My Social Work Practice
Clay Graybeal
Chapter 11: A Vision for Engaging the Arts in Social Work Practice
Brian L. Kelly, Carrie Lanza, Raphael Travis, & Taylor Ellis
Chapter 12: Building and Repairing through the Arts
Nesrien Abu Ghazaleh, Osvaldo Heredia, Eltje Bos
Chapter 13: "When I Hold the Door for You"
Maya Williams
Part IV: Foresightful Epilogue
Chapter 14: Four Ways the Arts Can Help Social Work Be More Future Ready and Future-Engaged
Laura Nissen
Continuing the Conversation: An Epilogue
Shelley Cohen Konrad & Michal Sela-Amit
Addenda
Realm of the Dead: An Installation Performance
Rogério M. Pinto
The Calling Commentary and Script
Clay Graybeal
