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The relational context is the most important component of
arts-based therapy work. This book demonstrates how this is so,
explains the major art relational neuroscience principles relevant
to art therapy and shows how they can be used to help clients with
autobiographical memory, reflecting and creating, touch and space,
meaning-making, emotions, and dealing with long-term stress and
trauma.
Art Therapy and Clinical Neuroscience offers an authoritative
introductory account of recent developments in clinical
neuroscience and its impact on art therapy theory and practice.
Contributors explore the complex relationship between art and
creativity and neurological functions such as those that occur
during stress response, immune functioning, child developmental
phases, gender difference, the processing of imagery, attachment,
and trauma. It deciphers neuroscientific language and theory and
contributes innovative concrete applications and interventions
useful in art therapy. This book is essential reading for art
therapists, expressive arts therapists, counselors, mental health
practitioners, and students.
Art Therapy and Social Action is an exciting and innovative
exploration of how human service professionals can incorporate the
techniques and approaches of art therapy in their work to address
social problems, and examines the expanding role of art
practitioner as social activist. Leading art therapists and other
human service professionals show how creative methods can be used
effectively to resolve conflicts, manage aggression, heal trauma
and build communities. The contributors provide examples of
innovative programs on a range of topics, including those designed
to address gun crime, homelessness, racism and experiences of
terrorism. This timely book provides new techniques and successful
models for art therapists, counselors and mental health
practitioners working directly with the challenges of modern
society.
Since its inception, art therapy has relied largely on theory
"borrowed" from psychotherapeutic approaches. In this provocative
and original book on art therapy, Frances Kaplan outlines a
scientific approach to art therapy. Kaplan examines the
relationship between art and science, delineating the role of
research and encouraging a spirit of enquiry in art therapy. She
looks at the latest scientific developments, especially those in
biology, evolution, and brain science, and relates them to theories
about the creation and interpretation of art. This leads her to
show how art therapists would benefit from learning more about
neurology and the physical effects of art on the brain, and from
being able to apply this knowledge in their art therapy practice.
The scientific evidence presented offers support for an art-based
theory of art therapy. By demonstrating the relationship between
two disciplines which are traditionally thought of as opposing,
Kaplan challenges our assumptions about art therapy and issues a
call for further research and debate.
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