Art Therapy and Learning Disabilities

Don't guess my happiness

Stephanie Bull, Kevin O'Farrell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2012
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-58324-4 (ISBN)

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In this book Stephanie Bull and Kevin O’Farrell bring together practising clinicians who provide an insight into using contemporary art therapy with people with learning disabilities. The authentic voice of people who have learning disabilities is central to the book, and case examples, snapshots of thoughts, dialogue, photographs and artwork are included to ensure that the subjects' voices are heard.

The book covers:

having a learning disability

loss and bereavement

attachment and separation

infantilisation

fear

powerlessness

self and identity.

This accessible and thought-provoking book is essential reading for anyone involved with people with learning disabilities including art therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors, students and carers.

Stephanie Bull, Kevin O’Farrell

Sinason, Foreword. O’Farrell, Introduction. Bull, Personalisation and a New Landscape for Learning Disability Services. Part I: Having a Learning Disability. Caven, The Question of What to Say and How to Say it? Part II: Loss. Dee, Loss, Bereavement and Learning Disabilities – A Theoretical Overview. Dee, Shaping Loss. Bull and Shallcross, Leila’s Shunt: "If I Did Not Have the Shunt in My Head I Would Have Been OK". Part III: Attachment and Separation. Storey, Skating in the Dark. Part IV: Infantilisation. Goody, Stuck in Childhood? Part V: Fear. Ashby, The Long Fingers of Fear. Part VI: Powerlessness. Bruckland, "It Makes Me Jump When I Fall Over". Part VII: Self and Identity. Bull, "The Beast Can Scream". O’Farrell, Conclusion.

Zusatzinfo	4 Halftones, color; 2 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, color; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	370 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-58324-1 / 0415583241
ISBN-13	978-0-415-58324-4 / 9780415583244
Zustand	Neuware