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Author SKAIFE, SALLY

Title Art Psychotherapy Groups : Between Pictures and Words
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (220 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Dissonance and harmony: Theoretical issues in art psychotherapy groups; 3 Adapting the art therapy group for children; 4 Connection and disconnection in the art therapy group: Working with forensic patients in acute states on a locked ward; 5 Return to the open studio group: Art therapy groups in acute psychiatry; 6 Candles slowly burning; 7 The Magpie's eye: Patients' resistance to engagement in an art therapy group for drug and alcohol patients
8 Long-stay art therapy groups9 Learning from experience in introductory art therapy groups; Index
Summary A growing number of art therapists are also trained in group analytic psychotherapy. This book explores the new theories and models for practice arising from the merging of these two disciplines. Contributors ask whether a model can be applied universally to art therapy group work with diverse client groups. They present in-depth case studies looking at work with the following:-* children* drug and alcohol abusers* forensic patients* patients on acute psychiatric wards* the cognitively-impaired elderly* institutionalised patients moving into the communityA common
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Form Electronic book
Author Huet, Val
ISBN 9781317725275
1317725271