Creative therapy / Expressive therapies

For people with dementia, the world can become a lonely and isolated place.

In Interactive Music Therapy - A Positive Approach, Amelia Oldfield explains how her approach to music therapy sessions establishes a constructive musical dialogue with children that emphasises positive experiences - these establish trust and allow feelings to be expressed through music.

While paediatric healthcare professionals view play as the treatment tool of choice for children under school age, the theory and practice underpinning play-based therapeutic approaches often remain less clear to individual practitioners.

Professionals working in a range of clinical settings are regularly called upon to work with angry clients, and they may find their skills and resources for working with this powerful emotion limited.

Working with anger takes a delicate balance of containment and expression.

This rich collection of 32 original songs assists you in supporting the development of positive educational and therapeutic outcomes.

This rich collection of 32 original songs assists you in supporting the development of positive educational and therapeutic outcomes.

This book transforms Minecraft from casual screen time into a meaningful therapeutic tool.

Narrative Reticulation explores how personal storytelling in community settings creates meaningful connections that benefit society.

This book transforms Minecraft from casual screen time into a meaningful therapeutic tool.

Narrative Reticulation explores how personal storytelling in community settings creates meaningful connections that benefit society.

This guide provides actionable advice for leading a successful drama program that builds educational theatre into a thriving creative community.

This guide provides actionable advice for leading a successful drama program that builds educational theatre into a thriving creative community.

The field of music education research is often concerned with studies and measurements that highlight the deficits rather than inquire about the developmental and dispositional strengths exhibited in children's musical behaviors.

The field of music education research is often concerned with studies and measurements that highlight the deficits rather than inquire about the developmental and dispositional strengths exhibited in children's musical behaviors.

This book offers the practical, ready-to-use MuSense program.

Poetry is an engaging and inclusive activity for older people that can help develop memory, imagination and identity.

With an international focus, this book considers how art techniques and exercises can be used in therapeutic work across cultural and race boundaries.

This book explores how creativity and the expressive arts can be therapeutic for refugees and survivors of natural disasters, poverty, war, pandemic and genocide.

Outsider art, traditionally the work of psychiatric patients, offenders and minority groups, and art therapy have shared histories of art created in psychiatric care.

This wide-ranging book on art therapy and grief provides everything an art therapist needs to feel confident in creating an effective treatment plan.

Theraplay(R) is an attachment-focused model of parenting that helps parents to understand and relate to their child.

This book explores how creativity and the expressive arts can be therapeutic for refugees and survivors of natural disasters, poverty, war, pandemic and genocide.

Outsider art, traditionally the work of psychiatric patients, offenders and minority groups, and art therapy have shared histories of art created in psychiatric care.

This wide-ranging book on art therapy and grief provides everything an art therapist needs to feel confident in creating an effective treatment plan.

With an international focus, this book considers how art techniques and exercises can be used in therapeutic work across cultural and race boundaries.

Theraplay(R) is an attachment-focused model of parenting that helps parents to understand and relate to their child.

The Definitive Guide to Theraplay(R) for Practitioners, officially endorsed by the Theraplay(R) InstituteTheraplay is an intervention that focuses on enhancing the connection, trust and joy between a child and a parent.

Poetry is an engaging and inclusive activity for older people that can help develop memory, imagination and identity.

This book offers the practical, ready-to-use MuSense program.

The Definitive Guide to Theraplay(R) for Practitioners, officially endorsed by the Theraplay(R) InstituteTheraplay is an intervention that focuses on enhancing the connection, trust and joy between a child and a parent.

Why do we love music?

Why do we love music?

This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better-and what they have to do with one another.

This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better-and what they have to do with one another.

An innovative contribution to therapeutic practice, Fostering Potential in Children with Special Needs provides a comprehensive introduction to the Jeremy Krauss Approach JKA.

An innovative contribution to therapeutic practice, Fostering Potential in Children with Special Needs provides a comprehensive introduction to the Jeremy Krauss Approach JKA.

There is nothing prescriptive about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or Art Therapy.

There is nothing prescriptive about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or Art Therapy.

This practical guide to Expressive Therapies tools - a multi-modal, emotion-focused application of creative arts therapies - explains how expressive, creative and collaborative counselling methods can be offered to young people who experience emotional, behavioural, cognitive or existential difficulties.

This volume, the first of its kind, brings together current research, protocols, and methods within embodied art therapy, from theoretical, clinical, and practical perspectives, for use by clinicians, educators, and students alike.

This volume, the first of its kind, brings together current research, protocols, and methods within embodied art therapy, from theoretical, clinical, and practical perspectives, for use by clinicians, educators, and students alike.

This practical guide to Expressive Therapies tools - a multi-modal, emotion-focused application of creative arts therapies - explains how expressive, creative and collaborative counselling methods can be offered to young people who experience emotional, behavioural, cognitive or existential difficulties.

Support children to better understand and navigate anger with this practical guide of therapeutic activities.

Use of the arts in palliative care settings is a powerful and effective way of addressing the practical, psychological, social and spiritual issues faced by service users in end-of-life care.

Providing theory and practical interventions, this book is the perfect companion to creative arts therapy students and professionals who wish to work with the LGBTQ community and the unique challenges that sexual minorities, transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) clients face today.

Providing theory and practical interventions, this book is the perfect companion to creative arts therapy students and professionals who wish to work with the LGBTQ community and the unique challenges that sexual minorities, transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) clients face today.

Use of the arts in palliative care settings is a powerful and effective way of addressing the practical, psychological, social and spiritual issues faced by service users in end-of-life care.

Support children to better understand and navigate anger with this practical guide of therapeutic activities.

A vivid exploration of working with autistic children using empowering techniques from a range of creative therapies.