The Handbook of Art Therapy

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The Handbook of Art Therapy has become the standard introductory text into the theory and practice of art therapy in a variety of settings. The comprehensive book concentrates on the work of art therapists and the way that art and therapy can combine in a treatment setting to promote insight and change. In this fourth edition, readers will gain both a historical overview of art therapy and insight into contemporary settings in which art therapists work, with a new chapter on the use of new technology and working online. The authors are highly experienced in the teaching, supervision and clinical practice of art therapy. Using first-hand accounts from therapists and patients, they look particularly at the role of the art work in the art process and setting in which it takes place. Chapters explore the theoretical background from which art therapy has developed and the implications for practice including the influence of art and psychoanalysis, creativity, aesthetics and symbolism, and the impact of different schools of psychoanalytic theory. Also featured is an extensive bibliography, encompassing a comprehensive coverage of the current literature on art therapy and related subjects. Covering basic theory and practice for clinicians and students at all levels of training, this book remains a key text for art therapists, counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and students at all levels, as well as professionals working in other arts therapies. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Figures Preface Foreword Chapter 1: Introduction The handbook Definitions What is art therapy? The developing relationship between art and psychoanalysis Art therapy in the UK The art therapist The art work in art therapy Different client groups Art therapy in education Individual and group work Art therapy and technology: the developing world The implications for art therapy Chapter 2: The art therapist Part one: becoming an art therapist Art therapy trainings Current training courses for qualification Components of the art therapy training Pre-course experience MA in art therapy Training units Experiential learning Art therapy theory and research Clinical placement and supervision Personal therapy The qualified art therapist Working as an art therapist Self-employment Independent practice Working with clients: referral Handling information, data protection and storage Meeting the client: assessment Therapeutic contract and consent Case conferences Feedback and reviews Part two: support structures, supervision and continuing professional development Supervision What is supervision? The boundary between supervision and therapy The art work in supervision Supervision in different institutional settings Qualities and responsibilities of a good supervisor Supervision in groups or individual supervision Problems in the supervisor/supervisee relationship Continuing professional development The art therapist as an artist Fostering the artist identity in the art therapist Migration exhibition Press play and artist boot camp Part three: clinical record-keeping, research, evidence-based practice and clinical guidelines Clinical record-keeping Art work after the session Storage Drawings or art work as 'evidence' Research, evidence-based practise and clinical guidelines Chapter 3: The art therapy room The creative arena or 'potential space' Adaptation of the art therapy room to different client groups The olden days - the 'Asylum within an asylum' Working with long-term psychotic patients - a specialist approach Moving into the community Working peripatetically Art therapy rooms and the containment of mess The Art Therapy Studio Project A space for art therapy work in a prison setting Thoughts re: the art therapy room in an in-patient eating disorder hospital The differing parameters of working in a refugee camp Art therapy and global brain injury Art therapy outdoors: working in nature Environmental arts therapy with children Summary Chapter 4: The therapy in art therapy Boundaries Working with a 'walled village' without walls: an art therapy open-group in the corridor of a paediatric ward Time boundaries Setting the scene or therapeutic space The therapeutic process Transference Counter-transference Interpretation Chapter 5: The art work in art therapy Use of different materials and media Clay Felt tip pens Self-images in art works The therapeutic value of 'Mess' as an art work Mess and regression Embodied and diagrammatic images Repetition and changing mediums in art work Art works and communication Art works and meaning within a relationship Interpretation of art works User involvement: reflecting on the images with the patient Cultural difference and attitudes to image making Chapter 6: Art therapy with individual clients Assessment Suitability of clients for art therapy John's initial meeting First meeting The art therapy sessions Duration of therapy Endings Chapter 7: An introduction to the theory of working with groups in art therapy Introduction to group art therapy Art therapy in groups The studio-based open group Group analytic art therapy The theme-centred group Discussion Working with children in groups Transferences and projective processes Practical issues for group work Group boundaries Chapter 8: Innovations in contemporary art therapy groups Introduction Parent or carer-infant and toddler dyadic art therapy groups Working with the elderly suffering from dementia Group art therapy in museums Group art therapy with refugees-working across cultures Assessment Psycho-education Working with interpreters Working with different cultures Nature-based group art therapy The large art therapy group Conclusion Chapter 9: Art therapy and technology Technology Digital technology Safeguarding Technology and the body Digital and virtual art therapy Art therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic Normal and the new normal Creativity during lockdown Adapting to the new normal as art therapists: working online during the pandemic and beyond Telephone contact Using video games in therapy Experiences of working in art therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic Chapter 10: Theoretical approaches and influences on current art therapy practice Studio-based art therapy Jungian approaches to art therapy The British independent tradition Intersubjectivity Developmental art therapy Aesthetic-based approaches to art therapy Exhibiting art works Attachment-based art therapy Neurobiological research and trauma Implications for art therapy Trauma and post traumatic stress disorder Art therapy with the under fives Mentalisation and mindfulness Developing new concepts and clinical practice Art therapy and museums Going green: nature-based work in art therapy Environmental arts therapy Innovative clinical practice through social crisis and change Community response to trauma: the role of art therapy Chapter 11: Art and psychoanalysis Freud and the classical analytical view of art Melanie Klein Marion Milner Donald Winnicott Jung, symbols and the transcendent function Summary Chapter 12: Development of psychoanalytic understanding The creative experience The aesthetic experience Symbolism Bibliography Videos Index