Full Description
Arts Therapies in International Practice: Informed by Neuroscience and Research brings together practice and research in the arts therapies and in neuroscience. The authors are all arts therapists who have reviewed their practice through the lens of modern neuroscience. Neuroscience confirms the importance of embodiment, choice, and creativity in therapy with a range of clients. Arts therapies directly provide these.
The authors demonstrate how the arts therapies can be adapted creatively to work in different social and ethnic communities, with different ages and with different states of health or ill health. Although there is diversity in their practice and country of practice, they reaffirm key concepts of the arts therapies, such as the importance of the therapeutic relationship, and the key role played by the arts modality with its effects on the brain and nervous system.
This book will appeal to a wide readership, including arts therapists, expressive arts therapists, a range of other psychotherapists and counsellors, students and their teachers, and those interested in the neuroscience of human development.
Contents
Part One: Setting the Scene. Introduction 1. Arts Therapies: Recent Advances Part Two: Arts Therapies in Practice 2. Metaphor and Implicit Memory (Jonah and the missing heart: A story of attachment and dramatherapy) 3. Narradrama as a Three-Act Play: Transformation, Neurobiology, and Discovery 4. Dramatherapy with Adolescents in Malaysia: Be 5. A Multimodal, Multitheoretical Arts-Psychotherapy Approach to Trauma and Depression 6. We are Here Together for A while: Art Therapy Initiatives within a Hospice Setting in Singapore 7. Imagination and Art Therapy: A Bridge to Transformation for Traumatised Clients 8. Singing all Together in the CeleBRation Choir: A Music Therapist's Perspective on Community Singing for Adults who have Neurogenic Communication Difficulties 9. Music therapy for autistic children- responding to contemporary understandings with new research approaches 10.In Circle: The Benefits of Dance as a Community Practice 11. Mind and Movement: Using the Universality of Neuroscience in Dance Movement Therapy Part Three: Reflections and Review 12. Reflections13. Future Development.
