Expressive Arts Therapies Books
Art Therapy and Creative Aging: Reclaiming Elderhood, Health and Wellbeing
Art Therapy and Creative Aging offers an integrated perspective on engaging with older people through the arts. Drawing from the author's clinical, research and teaching experiences, the book... (more)
Arts Therapies and the Mental Health of Children and Young People: Contemporary Research, Theory and Practice: Volume 1
Arts Therapies and The Mental Health of Children and Young People presents innovative research, theory and practice in the arts therapies. The different social, cultural and political contexts and... (more)
Somatic Art Therapy: Alleviating Pain and Trauma through Art
This book focuses on somatic art therapy for treating acute or chronic pain, especially resulting from physical and/or psychological trauma. It discusses the role of the psyche in physical healing... (more)
Clay Work and Body Image in Art Therapy: Using Metaphor and Symbolism to Heal
Clay Work and Body Image in Art Therapy provides an important addition to resources available in the field of clay work and art therapy, highlighting the unique sensory aspects of the medium and its... (more)
Integrating Arts Therapies into Education: A Collective Volume
This book offers a variety of effective, concrete ways to better assimilate arts therapies in the educational system.
Featuring leading art therapists and the models they have honed as a result... (more)
Solution-Focused Play Therapy: A Strengths-Based Clinical Approach to Play Therapy
Solution-Focused Play Therapy is an essential text that blends the process of play therapy with solution-focused therapy.
With a focus on child strengths and resources, this book identifies key... (more)
Asian Art Therapists: Navigating Art, Diversity, and Culture
This book explores Asian art therapist experiences in a predominantly white professional field, challenging readers with visceral, racial, and personalized stories that may push them far beyond their... (more)
Dance and Creativity within Dance Movement Therapy: International Perspectives
Dance and Creativity within Dance Movement Therapy discusses the core work and basic concepts in dance movement therapy (DMT), focusing on the centrality of dance, the creative process and their... (more)
Play Therapy Theories and Perspectives: A Collection of Thoughts in the Field
This book explores the multitude of thoughts, theories, opinions, methods, and approaches to play therapy in order to highlight the unity and diversity of theory and perspective in the... (more)
Attachment-Focused Family Play Therapy: An Intervention for Children and Adolescents after Trauma
Attachment-Focused Family Play Therapy presents an essential roadmap for therapists working with traumatized youth.
Exploring trauma and attachment through a neurobiological focus, the book lays... (more)
Art Therapy and Childbearing Issues: Birth, Death, and Rebirth
This text introduces readers to the diverse and unique ways art therapy is used with women who are undergoing various stages of the childbearing process, including conception, pregnancy, miscarriage,... (more)
Storybook Manual: An Introduction To Working With Storybooks Therapeutically And Creatively
This resource has been designed to support practitioners and caregivers with practical and creative ideas on how to use illustrated storybooks therapeutically with children. Whilst this book is also... (more)
Craft in Art Therapy: Diverse Approaches to the Transformative Power of Craft Materials and Methods
Craft in Art Therapy is the first book dedicated to illustrating the incorporation of craft materials and methods into art therapy theory and practice.
Contributing authors provide examples of... (more)
Equine-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy: Healing Through Horses
Equine-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy offers a comprehensive guide to the practice of working with equines in a psychotherapeutic setting.
Chapters provide a research-informed approach to... (more)
Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood
Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood explores the use of arts in relation to infertility, pregnancy, childbirth and new parenthood. It is the first book to bring all these subjects... (more)
Jungian Arts-Based Research and The Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico
Jungian Arts-Based Research and "The Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico" provides clear, accessible and in-depth guidance both for arts-based researchers using Jung's ideas and for Jungian scholars... (more)
Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies: When Words are Not Enough
Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies is a cross-professional book looking at current approaches to working therapeutically and socially with trauma in a creative and embodied way.
The... (more)
Digital Play Therapy: A Clinician's Guide to Comfort and Competence
Digital Play Therapy focuses on the responsible integration of technology into play therapy.
With a respect for the many different modalities and approaches under the play therapy umbrella, this... (more)
The Arts Therapies: A Revolution in Healthcare
The separate arts therapies - drama, art, music and dance - are becoming available to increasing numbers of clients as mental health professionals discover their potential to reach and help people.... (more)
Art Therapy, Dreams, and Healing: Beyond the Looking Glass
Art Therapy, Dreams, and Healing synthesizes methods to work with one's dreams through art therapy and introduces the reader to brief creative methods, Gestalt and Jungian experiential methods, and... (more)
Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process
From pioneering therapist Cathy A. Malchiodi, this book synthesizes the breadth of research on trauma and the brain and presents an innovative framework for treating trauma through the expressive... (more)
Infant Play Therapy: Foundations, Models, Programs, and Practice
Infant Play Therapy is a groundbreaking resource for practitioners interested in the varied play therapy theories, models, and programs available for the unique developmental needs of infants and... (more)
Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth: A Strengths-Based Approach to At-Promise Children and Adolescents
Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth highlights the paradigm shift to treating children and adolescents as "at-promise" rather than "at-risk." By utilizing a strength-based model that moves in... (more)
Healthy Mindsets for Little Kids: A Resilience Programme to Help Children Aged 5 – 9 with Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Body Image, Conflict, Discipline, Empathy and Self-Esteem
This flexible, early-intervention programme utilises hands-on activities and worksheets to address behaviour issues and teach core resilience skills in children aged 5-9. Based around ten guided... (more)
Creative Dance and Movement in Groupwork: Second Edition
This invaluable resource for teachers and therapists continues to explore the link between movement and emotions presented in the first edition of this innovative book. It provides 180 practical... (more)
Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity
Through the author's experiences, investigations and discussions with artists, art therapists and inmates from around the world, Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity... (more)
Art Therapy with Older Adults: Connected and Empowered
This book outlines a framework for art therapy with older adults rooted in a belief in the autonomy and self-efficacy of older adults, including those with dementia or other diseases of later life.... (more)
Turning Points in Play Therapy and the Emergence of Self: Applications of the Play Therapy Dimensions Model
Effective clinical practice requires a thorough understanding of how turning points surface in the play therapy process. These moments can indicate a change in a child's thought or behaviour. The... (more)
Tuning In Music Book: Sixty-Four Songs for Children with Complex Needs and Visual Impairment to Promote Language, Social Interaction and Wider Development
Containing 64 songs designed to promote language, social and musical development, this book accompanies the Tuning In Cards so you can perform the songs and integrate the activities into your own... (more)
Foundations of Art Therapy Supervision
Art therapists often find themselves supervising without any formal training; while supervisees may have similarly difficult experience if they don't know what to expect from the experience going in.... (more)