Full Description
This book examines the benefits and uses of art therapy in the treatment of addiction and trauma, highlighting its effectiveness at revealing underlying causes and relapse triggers, as well as treating co-occurring conditions that impair learning and recovery.
This book also focuses on art therapy for trauma within specific populations, including incarcerated individuals, military personnel and survivors of commercial sexual exploitation. Quinn discusses how art therapy is often carried out alongside combined approaches, such as CBT and DBT, and how it can help those with cognitive issues to learn through treatment. Furthermore, this book explores the benefits art therapy has for people with co-morbid conditions, such as dementia, emotional disorders and traumatic and acquired brain injuries.
With co-authored chapters from leading researchers in art therapy, the book demonstrates how art therapy can help to uncover triggers, process trauma and find a means of self-expression whilst working towards a sustained recovery.
Contents
1. The Paradigmatic Shift in Addiction Treatment
2. Art Therapy in Addiction Treatment
3. Trauma, Addiction and Art
4. The Evolution of Trauma Therapy and its Relevance to Art Therapy
5. Healing Addiction and Trauma with the Expressive Therapies Continuum and a Neurosequential Art Approach
6. Jungian Interventions to Center, Explore and Recover
7. Speaking Out: Art Therapy for Trauma, Eating Disorders and Substance Use Disorders
8. Gestalt Art Therapy with Family Constellation in Addiction Treatment
9. Psychoanalytic Theory as Used in Art Therapy for Addiction and Trauma
10. An Archetypal Journey Through Transitional Space: Art Therapy with an Alcoholic Man in Mid-Life
11. Art Therapy with Military Veteran Populations: Navigating Self and System
12. Art Therapy in the Forensic Setting
13. Freedom from Addiction and Captivity: Art Therapy for the CSE
