Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions (eBook)

Theory and Practice

Mark Pearson, Helen Wilson (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
320 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-85700-189-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book combines theory, research and activities to produce practical suggestions for enhancing client participation in the therapy process. It surveys the literature on art therapy; somatic approaches; emotion-activating models; use of music, writing and dreamwork; and the implications of the new findings in neuroscience.

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Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions combines theory, research and activities to produce practical suggestions for enhancing client participation in the therapy process. It surveys the literature on art therapy; somatic approaches; emotion-activating models; use of music, writing and dreamwork; and the implications of the new findings in neuroscience. The book includes step-by-step instructions for implementing expressive therapies techniques, and contains a wide range of experiential activities that integrate playful yet powerful tools that work in harmony with the client's innate ability for self-healing. The authors discuss transpersonal influences along with the practical implications of both emotion-focused and attachment theories. Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions is an essential guide to integrating creative arts-based activities into counselling and psychotherapy and will be a useful manual for practitioners, academics and student counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers and creative arts therapists.

Autor

Mark Pearson is Director of the Expressive Therapies Institute of Australia and a lecturer in Counselling at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle, Western Australia. Mark is currently completing PhD research on the benefits of using arts-based programs for wellbeing in schools. He is the author of Emotional Healing & Self-Esteem - Inner-Life Skills for Children & Adolescents and co-author of Emotional Release For Children. Helen Wilson is also a lecturer in Counselling at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and an expressive therapist in private practice.

Inhalt

Introduction: After we've Talked – What Then? Chapter One: Evolution and Practice of Expressive Therapies. Chapter Two: Towards Freedom, Choice and Empowerment – Evolution of Theory. Chapter Three: Attachment, Integration and Renewal. Chapter Four: Emotions and our Body – Working with Somatic Awareness. Chapter Five: Emotional Focussed Processes. Chapter Six: Expressive Writing as Emotional First-Aid. Chapter Seven: Exploring Art as Therapy. Chapter Eight: Use of Music in Emotion Therapy. Chapter Nine: Dreamwork. Chapter Ten: Transpersonal Influences – Spirituality and Counselling. References. Options for Training. Index of Activities. Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2009
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Attachment • Counselling • Creative Writing • Dreamwork • emotion-activating • Neuroscience • psychotherapy • self-healing • social workers • Somatic approaches • therapy • Transpersonal • Trauma • use of music • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-85700-189-2 / 0857001892
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85700-189-4 / 9780857001894