Full Description
With illustrations and graphic narratives throughout, this edited book reveals the potential benefits of using graphic novels, zines, and comics in art therapy practice, education, creative engagement, and social advocacy.
Organised into three parts, the book begins by exploring the meaningfulness of comics and graphic novels. Part Two demonstrates how art therapists have used graphic novels and art therapy in practice, discussing process and structure to support you to integrate graphic novels and comic books in your own practice. Lastly, Part Three presents five short comics chronicling art therapist's experiences as a form of reflective practice.
Contents
Part One: The meaningfulness of comics and graphic novels
1.Graphic novels and comics for therapy and education by Natalie Rae Carlton
2.Graphic Novels as Social Justice by Djuna Carlton
3.How Symbols are Made by Natalie Rae Carlton
Part Two: Demonstrations of comics and graphic novels in art therapy practice: Process and structure
4.Disrupting the Trauma Narrative: Deconstructing Comic Books and DBT by Jessica Massino Drass
5.Embodied Impacts of Trauma by Katharine Houpt
6.Use of Therapeutic Graphic Montage to Address Loneliness by Jonas Ginsburg
Part Three: Using comics and graphic novels in autobiographical and artistic response practices as art therapists
7.Being here is hard (scary/bullsh*t/easy/hell/stupid/better than home/why i'm alive) by Quinn Rivenburgh
8.exit: Buried Underneath by Alex Wright
9.Unspoken kinship within the therapeutic relationship by Naimah Thomas
10.Hope and Despair: Images from the hospital by Deborah John
11.Media Evocation by Natalie Rae Carlton
