Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
Contents:
Painting together -- an art therapy approach to mother-infant relationships / Penelope Hall -- Attachment patterns through the generations -- internal and external homes / Frances O'Brien -- 'I'm the king of the castle' -- the sibling bond : art therapy groups with siblings in care / Teresa Boronska -- The use of clay as a medium for working through loss and separation in the case of two latency boys / Tessa Dalley -- Working with the whole class in primary schools / Dean Reddick. Playing ball : oscillations within the potential space / Caroline Case -- From 'beanie' to 'boy' / Zara Patterson -- Growing up can be so hard to do : the role of art therapy during crucial life transitions and change in the lives of children with learning disabilities / Barrie Damarell and Dot Paisley -- Gender disorder in the treatment of a young person in care / Sue Retford-Muir. Paranoia and paracosms : brief art therapy with a youngster with Asperger's syndrome / Robin Tipple -- Seen and unseen : art therapy in a girls' comprehensive school / Carole Welsby -- "I wonder if I exist?" : a multi-family approach to the treatment of anorexia in adolescence / Tessa Dalley -- "Other people have a secret that I do not know" art psychotherapy in private practice with an adolescent girl with Asperger's syndrome / Julia Meyorowitz-Katz.
Summary:
""Art Therapy with Children: From Infancy to Adolescence" takes the reader through the child's development by describing the specialist work of the art therapist in each developmental stage. This passionate and exciting book demonstrates the wide theoretical base of art therapy presenting new areas of clinical practice. New to the literature is innovative work with mothers and babies, a study of the sibling bond in looked after children, trans-generational work in kinship fostering, gender disorder and multi-family work with anorexic young people. The detail of clinical process brings alive the significance of the relationship between the art therapist, child and the art forms made. More general topics include: the value of art for the pre-verbal child; the preventative role of art therapy in schools; the development of imagination in 'hard to reach' and dyspraxic children; and the importance of working with the family and professional network in the different settings of health, social services, education and voluntary sector. "Art Therapy with Children: From Infancy to Adolescence" will inspire the student, encourage the clinician and interest an international readership of all professionals working with children and young people."--P. [4] of cover.
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