Main description:

Captures a snapshot of current international arts therapies practice, from Australasia, South East Asia, United Kingdom and the US.
Demonstrates the benefits of arts therapies for clients who have experienced trauma, as well as those with acquired neurological conditions, atypical neurological development, anxiety and depression.
Links to neurological research, particularly with trauma, acquired neurological disorders, and non-typical neurological development.
An essential resource for practicing arts therapists, as well as students and educators in postgraduate arts therapy courses.

Contents:

Part One: Setting the Scene. Introduction 1. Arts Therapies: Recent Advances Part Two: Arts Therapies in Practice 2. Metaphor and Implicit Memory (Jonah and the missing heart: A story of attachment and dramatherapy) 3. Narradrama as a Three-Act Play: Transformation, Neurobiology, and Discovery 4. Dramatherapy with Adolescents in Malaysia: Be 5. A Multimodal, Multitheoretical Arts-Psychotherapy Approach to Trauma and Depression 6. We are Here Together for A while: Art Therapy Initiatives within a Hospice Setting in Singapore 7. Imagination and Art Therapy: A Bridge to Transformation for Traumatised Clients 8. Singing all Together in the CeleBRation Choir: A Music Therapist's Perspective on Community Singing for Adults who have Neurogenic Communication Difficulties 9. Music therapy for autistic children- responding to contemporary understandings with new research approaches 10.In Circle: The Benefits of Dance as a Community Practice 11. Mind and Movement: Using the Universality of Neuroscience in Dance Movement Therapy Part Three: Reflections and Review 12. Reflections13. Future Development.