Arts Therapies Principles and Practices

A Graphic Guide to Art Therapy

Amy Huxtable with Gaelynn P. Wolf Bordonaro and Libby Schmanke

What are the core concepts of art therapy? What can you learn from a drawing of a bird’s nest, a collage or some scribbles? Why become an art therapist and how do you do it? What happens in the therapy room?

In the style of a graphic novel, A Graphic Guide to Art Therapy answers these questions and more. Art therapy and its key concepts, theory and practice are introduced through illustrations and text. Beginning with an overview of art therapy as both a practice and a career, it shows the routes to becoming an art therapist and what the role entails. The essential approaches, frameworks, techniques and assessment styles of art therapy are visualised and discussed, making this book the perfect companion on your journey as an art therapist.

Sep 2021 | £16.99 | pb | ISbn-9781787753518

Art Therapy in Museums and Galleries

Reframing Practice Edited by Ali Coles and Helen Jury

Foreword by Jordan Potash.

This is the first book to explore and evaluate the potential of museum and gallery spaces and partnerships for art therapy.

Showcasing approaches by well-known art therapists, the edited collection contains descriptions of, and reflections on, art therapy in museums and galleries around the globe. Case studies encompass a broad range of client groups, including people with dementia, refugees and clients recovering from substance abuse, exploring the therapeutic skills required to work in these settings. The collection also establishes the context for art therapy in museums and galleries through reviewing key literature and engaging with the latest research, to consider wider perspectives on how these spaces inform therapeutic practice. Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction and Trauma

Edited by Patricia Quinn

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.

Dec 2020 | £24.99 | pb | ISbn-9781785927867

Art Therapy with Veterans

Edited by Rachel Mims

With both personal and professional insight from a range of contributors, this informative guide highlights the use of art therapy in a range of settings to support military veterans.

Chapters explore the use of art therapy in a range of different settings, including museum programs, open studio therapy and assisted living environments, as well as large group therapy at treatment facilities for active-duty service members. It also offers rare insight into the effectiveness of art therapy in supporting veterans who are processing military sexual trauma, moral injury and countertransference, filling essential gaps in knowledge within this area.

As demand for this practice continues to grow, Art Therapy with Veterans provides inspiration for future programs and therapists looking to support military communities.

Oct 2021 | £25.00 | pb | ISbn-9781787753334

Self-Expression through Art and Drumming

A Facilitator’s Guide to Using Art Therapy to Enhance Drum Circles Jen Mank

The first guide to the theory and practice of drumming for therapy and incorporating art therapy into drum circles.

This concise guide explains the theory behind drumming for therapy, as well as giving practical advice on facilitating and leading drum circles.

The book explains why drumming is therapeutic, offers hands-on guidance for using drums in group therapy and details specific techniques to lead to increased engagement. Incorporating art therapy into drum circles, it provides step-by-step instructions on making and painting a multi-tonal drum from scratch. Emphasis is also placed on how to create a therapeutic or safe place while conducting a drum circle and making art.

Dec 2020 | £19.99 | pb | ISbn-9781785927157

Arts Therapies and Sexual Offending

Edited by Simon Hastilow and Marian Liebmann

Foreword by Stanley Ruszczynski

A resource for arts therapists and other clinicians on working with people who have committed sexual offences.

There is a strong focus on the value of establishing a therapeutic relationship involving non-verbal media as a cornerstone, drawing upon current research and practice. Emphasis is placed on working with transference and countertransference, being trauma-informed, and making use of effective supervision.

This group of offenders can benefit hugely from the provision of arts therapies, and this book provides valuable experiences of working with people who have committed sexual offences.

Jan 2021 | £24.99 | pb | ISbn-9781787750647 Ecopoiesis

A New Perspective for The Expressive and Creative Arts Therapies In The 21st Century Edited by Stephen K. Levine and Alexander Kopytin

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Building on the concept of poiesis as the human creative function, this book seeks to stress the importance of humanity’s ecopoietic capacity, creating a more sustainable life for humans. It has been specifically created within the context of this most critical period of human existence, and acts as a forum for innovation based on the values of the environmental movement and its desire to address the extensive sociopsychological impact of the ecological crisis.

Jun 2022 | £30.00 | pb | ISbn-9781787759930

An Expressive Arts Approach to Healing Loss and Grief

Working Across the Spectrum of Loss with Individuals and Communities Irene Renzenbrink

Foreword by Stephen K. Levine

With personal and professional insight, Renzenbrink illuminates the healing and restorative power of creative arts therapies, as well as addressing the impact of communion with others and the role that expressive arts can play in community change. Covering a broad understanding of grief, the discussion incorporates migration and losing one’s home, chronic illness and natural disasters, highlighting the breadth of types of loss and widening our perceptions of this. Grief specialists are given imaginative and nourishing tools to incorporate into their practice and better support their clients.

An invaluable resource to expand understanding of grief and explore the power of expressive arts to heal both communities and individuals.

Jun 2021 | £24.99 | pb | ISbn-9781787752788

Art Psychotherapy and Innovation

New Territories, Techniques and Technologies Edited by Helen Jury & Ali Coles

Foreword by Girija Kaimal

Art Psychotherapy and Innovation captures the range of activity at the vanguard of practice and research in the field.

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Reflecting the sector’s increasing focus on ways of fostering psychological health, wellbeing and social engagement in a wider context, it examines how to adapt to an increasing demand for therapeutic interventions worldwide. This includes collaboration with arts and health practitioners to ensure evidence-based practice with safe and ethical therapeutic boundaries and which draws on art psychotherapists’ intensive clinical training.

Jul 2022 | £30.00 | pb | ISbn-9781787757080

Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies

Edited by Jessica Collier & Corrina Eastwood

Foreword by Savneet K. Talwar

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Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies advocates for contextualising of clinical thinking and experience within a social and political framework that acknowledges the importance of intersectionality. Bringing reflections on their own identity and their professional knowledge to the work, creative therapists address both practical work with clients and the theory behind these therapeutic practices. A call to reflexivity allows the reader to consider their own position as a practitioner.

These chapters will challenge and develop thinking on intersectional identities. Beyond the individual, the book demonstrates the need to embed knowledge of intersectionality in the profession at large.

Experienced practitioners write from diverse perspectives across the arts psychotherapies, exploring how structures of power, privilege and prejudice influence practice and outcomes. Cultural Humility in Art Therapy

Applications for Practice, Research, Social Justice, Self-Care, and Pedagogy Louvenia C. Jackson, PhD, MFT, ATR-BC

Foreword by Dr Melanie Tervalon

Introducing the concept of cultural humility, this guide offers a new perspective to the field of art therapy practice and theory. It explores cultural humility in art therapy research and assessment, clinical and community-based practice, social justice, self-care and pedagogy.

The notion of cultural humility addresses the power differential and encourages individuals and institutions to examine privilege within social constructs. It emphasizes self-reflection and the ability of knowing one’s self in order to allow the art therapist to appropriately interact with their client, whilst being mindful of their own bias, assumptions and beliefs. Each chapter ends with a reflective exercise.

Feb 2020 | £22.99 | pb | ISbn-9781785926433

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Art Therapy

Dr Amy Backos

This book focusses on art therapy as a treatment of PTSD in both theory and practice. It includes an in-depth look at what PTSD is, how it develops, and how art therapists should approach and treat it, with a focus on furthering social justice.

The chapters cover a wide variety of contexts, including adults at a rape crisis centre, veterans, children in group homes and patients at substance use facilities. The second section of the book includes invaluable practical strategies and interventions based on the author’s decades of experience in the field. It also discusses more complex concepts, including the impact of avoidance in maintaining symptoms of PTSD, and considers how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can guide art therapy interventions.

Jan 2021 | £24.99 | pb | ISbn-9781787752047

Art Therapy in Response to Natural Disasters, Mass Violence, and Crises

Edited by Joseph Scarce

With contributions from a range of expert voices within the field, this book explores the use of art therapy as a response to traumatic events. Offering rare insight into ways in which art therapists have responded to recent crises, this is a unique resource for art therapists looking to coordinate interventions for large-scale disaster and resulting trauma.

Chapters address a range of environmental and manmade disasters around the world, including hurricanes, typhoons, wildfires, mass shootings and forced migration, highlighting the impact of an art therapy approach in dealing with widespread trauma. Covering both community and individual cases, it provides an in-depth view into the challenges of working in these settings, including the effects on the therapist themselves, and offers practical information on how to coordinate, fund and maintain responses in these environments.

Dec 2021 | £28.99 | pb | ISbn-9781787754065

Special Interests in Art Therapy with Autistic People

An Art Therapy Approach to Empower and Engage Participants Jessica Woolhiser Stallings

Introducing the Special Interest Communication Theory (SICT) Facilitative Framework, this guide will help you to support autistic clients and meet their needs through special interests and pop culture.

Turning away from a culture that has often sought to suppress autistic special interests, Stallings asks that therapists meet autistic children and adults on their own terms. Creating an autism positive environment and engaging with special interests - from video games to K-Pop - builds rapport and helps identify therapeutic goals. From a perspective that respects autistic self-advocacy and the role of art therapy in supporting individual emotional health, this guide offers tools to address anxiety, social interaction, communication, identity and more.

Sep 2022 | £24.99 | pb | ISbn-9781787759084

Using Image and Narrative in Therapy for Trauma, Addiction and Recovery

Edited by James D. West

Foreword by Martin Weegmann

With contributions from well-respected figures in the field, this book explores the use of narrative and image in the therapeutic treatment of trauma and addiction. The book considers topics such as early trauma and its impacts, therapeutic methods based on images and narrative, and recovery and post-traumatic growth through community engagement.

Despite a close practical association between the two, trauma and addiction are often addressed or treated separately. By considering them together, this book offers a rare perspective and is an invaluable tool for art and narrative therapists, as well as professionals supporting those dealing with addiction or trauma.

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ACT Art Therapy

Creative Approaches to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Amy Backos

The only book addressing ACT and art therapy - designed for both art therapists and psychological therapists

Description: There is nothing prescriptive about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or Art Therapy. Both involve the client and the therapist cultivating creativity and psychological flexibility by letting go of limited, constricted, or habitual ways of thinking and being. ACT is effective when treating psychological difficulties such as depression, anxiety, OCD and psychosis. Readers will develop a meaningful context for understanding how ACT and art therapy align to creatively achieve positive outcomes for you and your clients.

Sep 2022 | £24.99 | pb | ISbn-9781787758032

The Story Within – Myth and Fairy Tale in Therapy

Yehudit Silverman

Foreword by Phil Jones

Somewhere hidden in the depths of each story lies a treasure waiting to be discovered….

This creative arts therapies approach uses myth and fairy tale to explore personal challenges. Clients begin by choosing a myth or fairy tale character they feel drawn to, but don’t know why. They and their chosen character then embark on a guided creative journey that leads them to discover hidden, unconscious, aspects of themselves.

apr 2020 | £24.99 | pb | ISbn-9781785925092

Found Objects in Art Therapy

Materials and Process Edited by Daniel Wong and Ronald Lay

This book shows how art therapists can use found objects in their work with clients.

Found objects can be a highly affordable, imaginative and creative way of working, and are particularly effective when working with marginalised populations and clients who have experienced trauma. This edited collection contains chapters from a wide variety of contributors from around the world and covers a vast array of topics, including the use of found objects in clinical settings, community and art practice, pedagogy and self-care.

This is the ideal resource for any art therapist wishing to explore the use of this nontraditional medium to enrich their practice.