This resource comprises a collection of accessible, flexible, tried-and-tested activities for use with people in a range of care settings, to help them explore their knowledge of themselves and to make sense of their experiences.
Among the issues addressed by the activities are exploring physical changes, emotional trauma, interpersonal problems and spiritual dilemmas. Featuring individual and group activities of varying difficulty, including card making, painting to music, meditation, and body mapping, it also includes real-life anecdotes that bring the techniques to life.
The Expressive Arts Activity Book is full of fun, easy, creative ideas for workers in hospitals, clinics, schools, hospices, spiritual and religious settings, and in private practice.
Praise for the book:
“A state-of-the-art book, filled with creative practical techniques, thoughtful advice and lessons from excellent case examples that all healthcare practitioners—physicians and allied healthcare professionals alike—can apply for the therapeutic and health-promoting benefits for their patients and clients.”
– from the Foreword by Gene D. Cohen MD PhD, Director of the Center on Aging, Health and Humanities, Professor of Health Care Sciences and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences and The George Washington Society
Book details:
The Expressive Arts Activity Book: A Resource for Professionals.
Suzanne Darley and Wende Heath: Foreword by Gene D. Cohen, M.D., PhD. Photographs by Mark Darley.
2007, Paperback 216 pages.
ISBN 978 1 84310 861 0.
£17.99/US$29.95.
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Writing Works: A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and Activities.
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A celebration of the talents and insights of children on the autism spectrum, The Hidden World of Autism presents a collection of writings and drawings contributed by 21 autistic children.
The children’s work covers topics that are of primary importance in understanding some of the common experiences that children with autism, and their families, go through. These include life before diagnosis, friendships, relationships, feelings, bullying and the future. A key characteristic of having autism is the inability to express emotions; but too often that prevents children with autism from being listened to. This book gives them both a voice and a forum for creative expression and provides direct insight into what having autism means for the children themselves and how they feel about their experiences.
This unique collection provides invaluable insights into the autistic experience for professionals, families and friends of children with autism, as well as the children themselves.
Praise for the book:
‘This is such a refreshing book. Interleaved with valuable theoretical and practical information about autism, I was left feeling I had really heard the voices of these young people with a new clarity.’
– Dr Jenny Thomson, Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
‘This delightful read is a gift that all of us that find ourselves in the world of autism, whether professionally or personally, must receive with openness and gratitude.’
– Blythe A. Corbett, Ph.D., University of California Davis, M.I.N.D. Institute
Book details:
The Hidden World of Autism
Writing and Art by Children with High-functioning Autism
Rebecca Chilvers
Foreword by Uttom Chowdhury
2007 Paperback 128 pages
ISBN 978 1 84310 451 3
£15.99/US$24.95
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Empowering Children through Art and Expression: Culturally Sensitive Ways of Healing Trauma and Grief
Empowering Children through Art and Expression examines the successful use of arts and expressive therapies with children, and in particular those whose lives have been disrupted by forced relocation with their families to a different culture or community.
The book explores how children express and resolve unspoken feelings about traumatic experiences in play and other creative activities, based on their observations of peer support groups, outreach programs and through individuals’ own accounts. The authors argue that such activities in a safe context can be both a means of expressing trauma and a coping strategy for children to overcome it. This book combines personal and professional perspectives, using case examples as well as the authors’ own childhood experiences, to demonstrate practical strategies for use with children, from drama and storytelling to sculpting with clay. It also equips the reader with knowledge of the theory behind these intervention techniques.
This book will be a valuable resource for professionals working with traumatized children who have experienced loss, grief, relocation and other kinds of trauma.
Book details:
Empowering Children through Art and Expression
Culturally Sensitive Ways of Healing Trauma and Grief
Bruce St Thomas and Paul Johnson
June 2007
176 pages
ISBN 978 1 84310 789 7
Paperback
£18.99/US$29.95
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“If You Turned into a Monster”: Transformation through Play: A Body-Centred Approach to Play Therapy
“Draw me a picture of what you would look like if you turned into a monster.” Dennis McCarthy’s work with distressed or traumatized children begins with an exercise that is simple but very effective: he invites the child to communicate with him in their own way, through the non-verbal language of play.
Using case studies from his clinical experience and with numerous children’s monster drawings, McCarthy lets the meaningful self-expression of the child take centre stage. He demonstrates that being allowed to play, move and draw impulsively and creatively in the supportive presence of the therapist is in fact the beginning of the therapeutic process. These activities are shown to be more therapeutic for the child in practical terms than the interpretation of the clues it provides about the child’s state of mind.
This very accessible book will be inspiring reading for play therapists and other professionals working therapeutically with young children and their families.
Praise for the book:
I recommend this book not only to therapists who work with children but especially to parents and teachers... [T]his book pushes past the complexities of psychological theory and jargon... [I]t is rare to find a therapist who has the sensitivity and skill to create...a safe and sacred psychological space...in which children feel free to allow their monsters into the room... Dennis McCarthy clearly has this gift...”
– from the foreword by Richmond K. Greene, Jungian analyst and former director of the C.G. Jung Institute in New York City
With a great deal of love, compassion, and wisdom Dennis McCarthy chronicles the lives and stories of children and their monsters in his book on transformation through play. The best stories always give specific details (this child, this particular situation, this problem) while also telling the universal stories which are meant for everyone, everywhere. This is that kind of important book of life stories.
– Gioia Timpanelli, author of Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily (Winner of the National Book Award) and “dean of American story telling”
I found Dennis McCarthy’s description of his energetic work with children fascinating reading. He has an unusual sensitivity and a solid comprehension of the emotional conflicts children have. His therapy is simple but highly effective based as it is on understanding the child’s need to discharge his negative aggressivity safely.
I recommend this book to parents, teachers and child therapists. They will enjoy reading it as well as learning from it.
– Dr. Alexander Lowen, creator of Bioenergetic Analysis and author of The Language of the Body
Book details:
“If You Turned into a Monster”
Transformation through Play: A Body-Centred Approach to Play Therapy
Dennis McCarthy
Foreword by Richmond K. Greene
June 2007
160 pages
ISBN: 978 1 84310 529 9
Paperback
£17.99/US$29.95
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