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Environmental Expressive Therapies contributes to the emerging
phenomenon of eco-arts therapy by highlighting the work that
international expressive arts therapists have accomplished to
establish a framework for incorporating nature as a partner in
creative/expressive arts therapy practices. Each of the
contributors explores a particular specialization and outlines the
implementation of multi-professional and multi-modal "earth-based"
creative/expressive interventions that practitioners can use in
their daily work with patients with various clinical needs.
Different forms of creative/expressive practices-such as creative
writing, play therapy techniques, visual arts, expressive music,
dramatic performances, and their combinations with wilderness and
animal-assisted therapy-are included in order to maximize the
spectrum of treatment options. Environmental Expressive Therapies
represents a variety of practical approaches and tools for
therapists to use to achieve multiple treatment goals and promote
sustainable lifestyles for individuals, families, and communities.
Environmental Expressive Therapies contributes to the emerging
phenomenon of eco-arts therapy by highlighting the work that
international expressive arts therapists have accomplished to
establish a framework for incorporating nature as a partner in
creative/expressive arts therapy practices. Each of the
contributors explores a particular specialization and outlines the
implementation of multi-professional and multi-modal "earth-based"
creative/expressive interventions that practitioners can use in
their daily work with patients with various clinical needs.
Different forms of creative/expressive practices-such as creative
writing, play therapy techniques, visual arts, expressive music,
dramatic performances, and their combinations with wilderness and
animal-assisted therapy-are included in order to maximize the
spectrum of treatment options. Environmental Expressive Therapies
represents a variety of practical approaches and tools for
therapists to use to achieve multiple treatment goals and promote
sustainable lifestyles for individuals, families, and communities.
This is an exploration of the different ways in which the spiritual
can be used in therapy. The contributor write from a range of
perspectives including Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and shamanic and
explain how their own spiritual and creative influences interact,
finding expression in the use of art as a healing agent with
specific populations, such as bereaved children, emotionally
disturbed adolescents and the homeless. The relationships between
spirituality and visual art, art therapy and transpersonal
pyschology are also examined.
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