Arts therapies in international practice : informed by neuroscience and research / edited by Caroline Miller and Mariana Torkington.
"Arts Therapies in International Practice: Informed by Neuroscience and Research brings together practice and research in the arts therapies and in neuroscience. The authors are all arts therapists who have reviewed their practice through the lens of modern neuroscience. Neuroscience confirms t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2022.
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| Summary: | "Arts Therapies in International Practice: Informed by Neuroscience and Research brings together practice and research in the arts therapies and in neuroscience. The authors are all arts therapists who have reviewed their practice through the lens of modern neuroscience. Neuroscience confirms the importance of embodiment, choice and creativity in therapy with a range of clients. Arts therapies directly provide these. The authors demonstrate how the arts therapies can be adapted creatively to work in different social and ethnic communities, with different ages and with different states of health or ill health. While there is diversity in their practice and country of practice, they reaffirm key concepts of the arts therapies- such as the importance of the therapeutic relationship, and the key role played by the arts modality with its effects on the brain and nervous system. This book will appeal to a wide readership including arts therapists, expressive arts therapists, a range of other psychotherapists and counsellors, students and their teachers and those interested in the neuroscience of human development"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781003082897 1003082890 9781000528015 1000528014 9781000528053 1000528057 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Caroline Miller MA Clinical Psychology, PGDip Clinical Psychology, BA English/Psychology, BPhil, PG Dip. Dramatherapy, (New Zealand) graduated as a dramatherapist in 1991 and has worked as a dramatherapist and clinical psychologist in government services, non-government services, schools, mental health settings and in private practice. Her work has included school counselling, managing and setting up a District Health Board mental health service for children adolescents and their families, managing a programme for Conduct Disordered Youth, working in schools for children (ages 5-21) with special needs, working with young sex offenders, and working in private practice with adults and young people with sexual abuse trauma, depression and anxiety, and other diagnosed mental health disorders. She has had an extensive supervision practice. She has supported many therapists to develop their writing for publication. Caroline was the inaugural co-director of the MA in Arts Therapy, a combined arts therapies programme at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design in Auckland New Zealand. She continued in the position of co-director teaching and supervising master's level dissertations. This was followed by guest lecturer and workshop invitations. She has presented at several conferences in Australasia and the United Kingdom. Caroline has published several articles and is the editor of two books Assessment and outcomes in the arts therapies: A person-centred approach London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014, and Arts therapists in multidisciplinary settings: Working together for better outcomes. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016. Mariana Torkington (NZ) MA Arts Therapy (Clinical), AThR, ANZACATA, MNZAC, ACC Provider is a registered arts therapist working and lecturing in Auckland, and a published author in the arts therapies field. Mariana has worked as an arts therapist for government and non-government agencies and in private practice. She has specialised in working with children, adolescents and families in trauma and abuse recovery. Her special areas of interest include family work, learning disabilities, anxiety, and depression. Mariana is currently lecturing in the newly established Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Programme at Auckland University of Technology. Mariana spent her childhood and young adulthood living in Argentina and Brazil, and speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and English. |