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Author Buchalter, Susan I. (Susan Irene), 1955- author.

Title Art therapy and creative coping techniques for older adults / Susan I. Buchalter
Published London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations
Contents Warm-ups -- Drawing -- Self-awareness -- Self-esteem -- Stress reduction -- Movement/music -- Creative expression -- Collage -- Change/transformation -- Murals -- Coping skills -- Reminiscing -- Diverse directives
Summary Art and the therapeutic uses of art provide older adults with valuable ways in which to express and share their feelings, needs and fears, and with a resource for coping with life's major changes. This practical book is filled with step-by-step exercises for art therapists and other professionals to use in work with older adults, either individually or in groups. The author provides brief, imaginative warm-ups, which encourage participants to become more at ease expressing themselves creatively. She offers ideas for engaging and innovative creative projects across a range of media, including art, music, movement, poetry and creative writing, all of which can be adapted, personalised or combined to meet the particular needs of individual participants. Points to consider when working with this client group are explored, and case study examples, with participants' artwork, are included throughout. Appropriate for use with all relatively able older adults, including those with depression, anxiety or in the early stages of dementia, this will be an invaluable tool for art therapists as well as counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers and carers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Art therapy for older people.
Older people.
Art therapy -- Methods
Older people -- Psychology.
Mental illness -- Treatment.
Aged
Art Therapy -- methods
Aged -- psychology
Mental Disorders -- therapy
Aged, 80 and over
elderly.
Care Of The Elderly.
MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
Art therapy
Art therapy for older people
Mental illness -- Treatment
Older people
Older people -- Psychology
Genre/Form Electronic books
Methods (Music)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010049176
ISBN 9780857003096
0857003097