Full Description
This volume, the first of its kind, brings together current research, protocols, and methods within embodied art therapy from theoretical, clinical, and practical perspectives, for use by clinicians, educators, and students alike.
Bringing together the perspectives and experiences of practitioners and theorists in the emerging field of embodied art therapy, this book highlights the importance of the body in equitable, sustainable, and trauma-informed psychotherapy. The chapters in this book cover groundwork and theory, clinical practices, methods and materials, and supervision and pedagogy of embodied art therapy illustrated with case studies demonstrating its impact with diverse clients and their unique sensory and kinesthetics needs. Topics covered include neurobiology, trauma, attachment, somatic art therapy methods including Guided Drawing and yoga-based art therapy, working in nature, online, and in the transpersonal realm.
Training in body awareness allows clinicians to attune to all kinds of bodies. Allied professionals, students, educators and art therapists will all find this volume a necessary part of their professional development.
Contents
Introduction Part 1: Theoretical foundations for embodiment in art therapy 1. The intersection of art therapy, embodiment, and body-based therapies 2. Trauma, attachment, and the body: Implications for art therapy 3. Neuroscience in the service of art therapy: Transcending classic approaches and advancing our understanding through principles of embodiment 4. Haptic perception in art therapy Part 2: Clinical applications of embodied art therapy 5. Traditional body-based methods in art therapy: Guided imagery, body mapping, and body tracing 6. Embodied methods in art therapy 7. Sensorimotor therapy and sensory modulation applications within art therapy 8. Embodiment, energy therapy, and the transpersonal 9. Embodied methods in online art therapy Part 3: Diverse bodies, diverse needs: Applications in different clinical settings 10. Social dichotomies, the body, and the transgressive power of creativity in an acute psychiatric setting 11. Eating disorders: Working with the body and its image in art therapy 12. Gender affirming ethos in embodied art therapy 13. Intergenerational trauma and the embodied creative wisdom of Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples 14. Disability Art: Lessons for embodied, anti-oppressive art therapy 15. Grace in the broken parts: Embodied art therapy methods for working with chronic pain and medical trauma 16. Embodying grief, celebrating death: An art therapy approach Part 4: Embodied materials, methods, and settings 17. At home in one's body: Embodied art therapy spaces 18. The spirit of matter: An embodied approach to art materials 19. Environmental arts therapy: The body in nature 20. Integrative clinical practices: Art therapy, biofeedback, and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing 21. Integrating art therapy and yoga for an intentional, embodied practice Part 5: Training embodied art therapists 22. Teaching embodied methods to art therapy students 23. Cultivating resonance: The embodied supervision relationship in art therapy
