The Arts Therapy Arena provides professionals, researchers, instructors and students with information on the range of Arts Therapy books produced by Routledge, Psychology Press, and also by Guilford Press.

Subjects covered by this Arena include: Art Therapy, Dance Movement Therapy, Drama Therapy, Music Therapy, Play Therapy and Writing Therapy.

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Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools

Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools

Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools is the first book to specifically evaluate the unique value of dramatherapy in the educational environment.

A variety of highly experienced dramatherapists, educational psychologists and childhood experts discuss the benefits to the children and young people, and also in relation to the involvement of teachers, the multi-disciplinary team and families.

This professional book offers a panoramic view to explain how through dramatherapy children and young people develop their communication skills, sociability and their actual desire to learn.

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Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship

Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship

Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship is the newest incarnation of Garry Landreth’s comprehensive text on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play.

It details Landreth’s Child Centered Play Therapy model, which stresses the importance of understanding the child’s world and perspective.

This approach facilitates the play therapy process while allowing therapist and client to fully connect. Professors who have taught a course based on the previous edition will be pleased to find the core message intact, but updated with a significant body of recent research.

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Assessment in Art Therapy

Assessment in Art Therapy

Assessment in Art Therapy gives a unique insight into the diverse contemporary practices that constitute assessment in art therapy, providing an overview of the different approaches employed in Britain and the USA today.

This professional handbook comprises three parts. 'Sitting Beside' explores the discursive and the relational in art therapy assessments with adults and children in different settings. 'Snapshots from the Field' presents a series of short, practice-based reports which describe art therapists working in private practice, secure settings and community mental health centres. 'A More Distant Calculation' consists of chapters that describe the development and use of different kinds of art-based assessment procedures developed on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as different kinds of research about art therapy assessment.

Both students and practitioners alike will benefit from the wealth of experience presented in this book, which demonstrates how art therapists think about assessment; the difficulties that arise in art therapy assessment; and the importance of developing the theory and practice of art therapy assessment, whilst taking into account the changing demands of systems and institutions.

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