Creative Psychotherapy
Creative Psychotherapy

Author: Eileen Prendiville

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 131739738X

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Creative Psychotherapy brings together the expertise of leading authors and clinicians from around the world to synthesise what we understand about how the brain develops, the neurological impact of trauma and the development of play. The authors explain how to use this information to plan developmentally appropriate interventions and guide creative counselling across the lifespan. The book includes a theoretical rationale for various creative media associated with particular stages of neural development, and examines how creative approaches can be used with all client groups suffering from trauma. Using case studies and exemplar intervention plans, the book presents ways in which creative activities can be used sequentially to support healing and development in young children, adolescents and adults. Creative Psychotherapy will be of interest to mental health professionals working with children, adolescents and adults, including play and arts therapists, counsellors, family therapists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists and teachers. It will also be a valuable resource for clinically oriented postgraduate students, and therapists who work with victims of interpersonal trauma.

Creative Play Therapy with Adolescents and Adults
Creative Play Therapy with Adolescents and Adults

Author: Denis' A. Thomas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-16

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0429830270

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This practical, user-friendly manual shows mental health professionals how to implement play therapy with adolescents and adults and how to conceptualize client struggles using a wealth of creative approaches. Creative Play Therapy with Adolescents and Adults follows an accessible seven-stage process for professionals to address clients’ core needs and establish an empathic therapeutic relationship. The book charts the stages of play therapy and explores a range of expressive arts including art, drama, dance, writing and sand play and the key materials needed for each. It also considers additional aspects of play therapy including resistance, spirituality and self-care. Filled with techniques, skills and case studies to help demystify complex client work, the book outlines an easy-to-follow treatment protocol for healing and resolution. This book will be of interest to a wide range of mental health professionals working with adults and adolescents as it encourages a more creative career and lasting, tangible progress in clients.

Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy
Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy

Author: Jeffrey A. Kottler

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-07-17

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0470487135

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An invitation to observe and achieve transformative breakthroughs in the therapeutic experience Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy: Tales of Transformation and Astonishment brings together nineteen of the world's most prominent and creative therapists and researchers, taking professionals inside each contributor's creative innovations in theory and technique. Designed for all therapists who wish to communicate their therapeutic messages creatively and effectively, authors Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson invite you to be inspired from the observations of your peers and consider how these approaches might be applied to your own work. Drawn from real-life cases, contributors share stories of their most creative breakthroughs, demonstrating out-of-the-box thinking that freed them to create alternative ways of meeting their clients? needs. Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy: Tales of Transformation and Astonishment will motivate you to experiment as an agent of change, exploring new, creative ways to make a difference in people's lives, with wisdom from some of the world?s foremost authorities including: Stephen Lankton, Bradford Keeney, Sam Gladding, Steve Madigan, Michael Yapko, Scott Miller, Jeff Zeig, Judy Jordan, Robert Neimeyer, Laura Brown, Bill O'Hanlon, Cloe Madanes, Len Sperry, Fred Bemak, Nancy McWilliams, Nick Cummings and Alfonso Montuori The stories in this book represent seminal cases in which eminent practitioners in therapy and related fields express their own unique voices as clinicians. The book focuses on what led each clinician to a creative breakthrough and identifies the common variables—across all the stories—that might promote innovation in the future. Their experiences will inspire every therapist to discover their own creative path.

Using Music in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Using Music in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Author: Laura E. Beer

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 146253919X

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There is growing evidence for the powerful role that music plays in enhancing children's cognitive, social, and emotional development. Written for a broad audience of mental health professionals, this is the first book to provide accessible ways of integrating music into clinical work with children and adolescents. Rich case vignettes show how to use singing, drumming, listening to music, and many other strategies to connect with hard-to-reach children, promote self-regulation, and create opportunities for change. The book offers detailed guidelines for addressing different clinical challenges, including attachment difficulties, trauma, and behavioral, emotional, and communication problems. Each chapter concludes with concrete recommendations for practice; an appendix presents a photographic inventory of recommended instruments.

Creative Therapies
Creative Therapies

Author: Kim Atkinson

Publisher: Nelson Thornes

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780748733101

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In an effort to provide a clearer career path for IT professionals supporting Windows Server 2003, the Training & Certification team has made significant changes to the MCSA and MCSE programs. While still requiring candidates to pass four exams for the MCSA and seven exams for the MCSE, the new program is now a true two-tier structure that clearly differentiates between skills needed by administrators and support personnel, and higher-level planners and designers. This study guide is aimed at MCSA and MCSE candidates preparing for the Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure exam (#70-291).

Creative Arts in Counseling and Mental Health
Creative Arts in Counseling and Mental Health

Author: Philip Neilsen

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1483313468

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Drawing on new paradigms and evidence-based discoveries in neuroscience, narrative psychology, and creativity theory, Creative Arts in Counseling and Mental Health by Philip Neilsen, Robert King, and Felicity Baker explores the beneficial role of expressive arts within a recovery perspective. A framework of practice principles for the visual arts, creative writing, music, drama, dance, and digital storytelling is addressed across a number of settings and populations, providing readers with an accessible overview of techniques taught in counseling programs in the U.S. and abroad.

Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples
Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples

Author: Rob Fisher

Publisher: Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781891944970

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Couple psychotherapy can be significantly deepened and expedited by using present-time experience in the assessment process and by incorporating experiential interventions, says Fisher. Presumably a practitioner himself, he explains to fellow therapists how to do it, detailing the application of a b

Art Therapy and Creative Coping Techniques for Older Adults
Art Therapy and Creative Coping Techniques for Older Adults

Author: Susan Buchalter

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2011-08-15

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0857003097

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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.