The Expressive Arts Activity Book

A Resource for Professionals

Wende Heath, Suzanne Darley

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9781843108610
• eBook ISBN: 9781846427374
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Art General
• Index: Psychology

This resource comprises a collection of accessible, flexible, tried-and-tested activities for use with people in a range of care settings, to help them explore their knowledge of themselves and to make sense of their experiences.

Among the issues addressed by the activities are exploring physical changes, emotional trauma, interpersonal problems and spiritual dilemmas. Featuring individual and group activities of varying difficulty, including card making, painting to music, meditation, and body mapping, it also includes real-life anecdotes that bring the techniques to life.

The Expressive Arts Activity Book is full of fun, easy, creative ideas for workers in hospitals, clinics, schools, hospices, spiritual and religious settings, and in private practice.

Table of contents

• FRONT COVER
• The Expressive Arts Activity Book; A Resource for Professionals
• Contents
• FOREWORD BY GENE COHEN, MD, PhD
• Introduction
• 1. Why Art?
• 2. Who Should Use This Book?
• 3. How to Be with Patients: Presence, Presence, Presence
• 4. Everything You Need to Know about Art Materials
• 5. Ready, Set, Go
• 6. Notes from the Practice
• 7. Activities
• APPENDIX A: PATTERNS AND PROJECTS
• APPENDIX B: ASSOCIATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
• APPENDIX C: REFERENCES
• APPENDIX D: FURTHER READING
• INDEX TO ACTIVITIES