Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy: Integrating the Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy (Atkins Sally)(Paperback)

Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy: Integrating the Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy (Atkins Sally)(Paperback)

Responding to the increased interest in the integration of expressive arts and ecotherapy, this book presents a nature based approach to expressive arts work. It provides an overview of the two fields, emphasizing how they can enrich and learn from each other, and highlights attitudes and practices

Expressive Arts Therapy for Traumatized Children and Adolescents: A Four-Phase Model (Richardson Carmen)(Paperback)

Expressive Arts Therapy for Traumatized Children and Adolescents is the book so many expressive arts and trauma therapists have been waiting for. Not only does it lay out an organized, thorough framework for applying varied expressive arts modalities, it provides clear directions for the

Philosophy of Expressive Arts Therapy: Poiesis and the Therapeutic Imagination (Levine Stephen K.)(Paperback)

Laying the philosophical foundations of expressive arts therapy, this book highlights the role and importance of poiesis, the art of 'making' as a response to the world, in the expressive arts therapies as well as our own lives. The concept of poiesis was originally developed and brought into the

Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics (Levine Stephen K.)(Paperback)

Challenging traditional therapeutic approaches to the arts in which art is often secondary to a psychological model, Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy provides a coherent theoretical framework for an expressive arts therapy practice that places the process of art-making and the art

Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions: Theory and Practice (Wilson Helen)(Paperback)

Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions combines theory, research and activities to produce practical suggestions for enhancing client participation in the therapy process. It surveys the literature on art therapy; somatic approaches; emotion-activating models; use of music,

Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Arts to Spiritual Direction (Paintner Christine Valters)(Paperback)

The new resource is designed to help spiritual directors and others use expressive arts in the context of spiritual direction. It is the latest book in the unique SDI series, designed for professional spiritual directors, but also useful for clergy, therapists, and Christian formation specialists

The Expressive Lives of Elders: Folklore, Art, and Aging (Kay Jon)(Paperback)

Can traditional arts improve an older adult's quality of life? Are arts interventions more effective when they align with an elder's cultural identity? In The Expressive Lives of Elders, Jon Kay and contributors from a diverse range of public institutions argue that such mediations work best when

The Expressive Arts Activity Book, 2nd Edition: A Resource for Professionals (Heath Wende)(Paperback)

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

Environmental arts therapy and the Tree of life (Siddons Heginworth Ian)(Paperback)

Environmental arts therapy and the Tree of life guides us through the Celtic calendar to explore the relationship between the feeling experience of the human heart and the turning year. Practical, poetic, innovative and magical, it invites us to make environmental art and ritual a vital and healing

Handbook of Arts-Based Research (Leavy Patricia)(Paperback)

Bringing together interdisciplinary leaders in methodology and arts-based research (ABR), this comprehensive handbook explores the synergies between artistic and research practices and addresses issues in designing, implementing, evaluating, and publishing ABR studies. Coverage includes the full

Artful Teaching: Integrating the Arts for Understanding Across the Curriculum, K-8 (Donahue David M.)(Paperback)

Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames (Bogost Ian)(Paperback)

An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in terms of their computational properties.Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work,

Mindfulness and the Arts Therapies: Theory and Practice (Kass Jared D.)(Paperback)

This ground-breaking book explores the theoretical, clinical and training application of integrating mindfulness with all of the arts therapies, and includes cutting-edge contributions from neuroscience. Written by pioneers and leaders in the arts therapies and psychology fields, the book includes

Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began (Dissanayake Ellen)(Paperback)

To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations. In Art and Intimacy she argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and

Cotswold Arts and Crafts Architecture (Gordon Catherine)(Paperback)

Between 1890 and 1930, Arts and Crafts architecture proliferated within the Cotswolds. The range and quality of the buildings was exceptional as the region provided the perfect environment for the Movement's ideals and principles. Arts and Crafts architects relished the robust vernacular precedent

Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts (Amos Johanna)(Paperback)

The needle arts are traditionally associated with the decorative, domestic, and feminine. Stitching the Self sets out to expand this narrow view, demonstrating how needlework has emerged as an art form through which both objects and identities - social, political, and often non-conformist - are

Scots Dictionary of Nature (Thomson Amanda)(Paperback / softback)

A Scots Dictionary of Nature brings together - for the first time - the deeply expressive vocabulary customarily used to describe land, wood, weather, birds, water and walking in

Suffrage and the Arts: Visual Culture, Politics and Enterprise (Garrett Miranda)(Paperback)

Suffrage and the Arts re-establishes the central role that artistic women and men-from jewellers, portrait painters, embroiderers, through to retailers of 'artistic' products-played in the suffrage campaign in the British Isles. As political individuals, they were foot soldiers who helped sustain

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain (Greensted Mary)(Paperback)

Mary Greensted tells the story of the birth and development of the Arts and Craft movement in Britain with the help of numerous illustrations showing the buildings, furniture, metalwork, and the people who influenced it. The movement was concerned with the revival of traditional crafts, and a

Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body (Hogan Susan)(Paperback)

Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body offers worldwide perspectives on gender in arts therapies practice and provides understandings of gender and arts therapies in a variety of global contexts. Bringing together leading researchers and lesser-known voices, it contains

The Arts of China, Sixth Edition, Revised and Expanded (Sullivan Michael)(Paperback)

Internationally renowned and a crucial classroom text, The Arts of China has been revised and expanded by the late Michael Sullivan, with Shelagh Vainker. This new, sixth, edition has an emphasis on Chinese art history, not as an assemblage of related topics, but as a continuous story. With updated

Chinese Martial Arts (Lorge Peter a.)(Paperback)

In the global world of the twenty-first century, martial arts are practiced for self-defense and sporting purposes only. However, for thousands of years, they were a central feature of military practice in China and essential for the smooth functioning of society. Individuals who were adept in

The Arts Therapies: A Revolution in Healthcare (Jones Phil)(Paperback)

The separate arts therapies - drama, art, music and dance - are becoming available to increasing numbers of clients as mental health professionals discover their potential to reach and help people. But what are the arts therapies, and what do they offer clients? This fully updated new edition of

Visual Arts Management, 2nd Edition (Taylor Jeffrey)(Paperback)

The arts sector is of vital importance to the global economy and students aspiring to a career in the visual arts are increasingly required to gain an understanding of the business side of the arts world. This textbook introduces the field of arts management with a focus on visual arts. Visual Arts