Full Description
This book explores the effectiveness of art therapy as treatment for cumulative trauma survivors.
Bringing together case studies, research, and the author's clinical and personal experience, it outlines different clinical approaches as well as numerous art therapy interventions that are processed through somatic, metaverbal, and narrative means. It further aims to answer the question of "how art therapy works," by pairing aspects of Lusebrink's Expressive Therapies Continuum with Perry's four functional domains (from the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics) to demonstrate how these practices may increase relational capacity and the patient's access to higher level functioning, in turn, decreasing trauma responses.
Foregrounding a person-centered and multi-dimensional approach to trauma repair and creative interventions, this book will appeal to postgraduate students in art therapy and counselling, as well as professionals and researchers in somatic work and trauma specialties.
Contents
PART 1: Laying the groundwork 1. Introduction 2. Terminology 3. Connecting the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) and the Four Functional Domains (from NMT) PART 2: Exploration of Art Therapy Approaches 4. Directive versus Nondirective 5. Collaborative Approach to Media and/or Directives PART 3: Integration and Regulation 6. Engaging Sensory Integration and the Kinesthetic/ Sensory Levels of the Expressive Therapies Continuum 7. Engaging Emotional Regulation and Perceptual/ Affective Levels of the Expressive Therapies Continuum PART 4. Building the Therapeutic Alliance and Relational Capacity 8. Art Media and Art Interventions that Will Enhance the Therapeutic Alliance 9. The Artwork as Container: Defining Safety and Creating Safety PART 5. Embracing the Cognitive/ Symbolic and the Creative Levels 10. Bridging the Bottom-Up and the Top-Down through Oscillation and Metaphoric Meaning Making 11. The Creative and The Imagination Network 12. Survival Responses and Adaptive Options PART 6. Conclusion
