ABSTRACT

Creative Response Activities for Children on the Spectrum is a clear, comprehensive and intuitive guide that offers a wide selection of hands-on interventions to be used in any therapeutic or educational setting with children who are ‘on the spectrum’. From drawing and writing poetry to skiing and skateboarding, this book describes these and many other creative activities geared towards children with autistic features, attention deficits, hyperactivity, paediatric bipolar disorder and other related conditions. This new resource provides an innovative blend of theory and illustrative case examples designed to help therapists and educators assess children’s needs, formulate therapeutic and aesthetic interventions, and analyze creative outcomes.

part I|111 pages

The Creative Response

chapter One|6 pages

Beginnings

chapter Two|14 pages

First Clients and Creative Outcomes

chapter Three|21 pages

Mapping the Spectrum

chapter Four|18 pages

Socialization Challenges

chapter Five|16 pages

Approaches to Creative Activity

chapter Six|20 pages

Stimulus-Based Interventions

part II|51 pages

Towards a Theory of the Psyche

chapter Seven|25 pages

The Psyche and Competing Paradigms

chapter Eight|11 pages

Functional Methodologies

chapter Nine|13 pages

Media and Technology: New Challenges

part |127 pages

The Artists

chapter |2 pages

Structuring the Arc

chapter Ten|34 pages

On the Autistic Continuum

chapter Eleven|13 pages

The Hyperactive Attentional Spectrum

chapter Twelve|13 pages

Creative Action Responses

chapter Thirteen|9 pages

Mood Involvements

chapter Fourteen|6 pages

Delusions and the ‘Other World’

chapter Fifteen|9 pages

The Written Word

chapter Sixteen|10 pages

Shadow Syndromes and Religiosity

chapter Seventeen|4 pages

Domestic Violence

chapter Eighteen|12 pages

War and Trauma

chapter Nineteen|11 pages

Hope and Advocacy

chapter Twenty|2 pages

Twenty Resonance