ABSTRACT
Arts Therapies in International Practice: Informed by Neuroscience and Research brings together practice and research in the arts therapies and in neuroscience. The authors are all arts therapists who have reviewed their practice through the lens of modern neuroscience. Neuroscience confirms the importance of embodiment, choice, and creativity in therapy with a range of clients. Arts therapies directly provide these.
The authors demonstrate how the arts therapies can be adapted creatively to work in different social and ethnic communities, with different ages and with different states of health or ill health. Although there is diversity in their practice and country of practice, they reaffirm key concepts of the arts therapies, such as the importance of the therapeutic relationship, and the key role played by the arts modality with its effects on the brain and nervous system.
This book will appeal to a wide readership, including arts therapists, expressive arts therapists, a range of other psychotherapists and counsellors, students and their teachers, and those interested in the neuroscience of human development.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|31 pages
Setting the scene
chapter |5 pages
Arts therapists writing a book in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
part II|159 pages
Arts therapies in practice
chapter 2|12 pages
Exploring implicit memory through metaphor
chapter 6|14 pages
We are here together for a while
chapter 8|14 pages
Singing all together in the CeleBRation Choir
chapter 11|13 pages
Mind and movement
part III|8 pages
Reflections and review