Arts Therapy News & Updates

Recent Articles

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   The Practitioner’s Guide to Child Art Therapy

   Even in the face of challenging conditions, art therapy treatment offers meaningful opportunities for growth. It’s not always easy, though, to navigate the complex interplay of art processes, relational states, and developmental theories. For any clinician looking for guidance on the ins and outs of using art therapy with children, there is no better resource than The Practitioner’s Guide to Child Art Therapy. 

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   Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association Seeking Editor-in-Chief for 2015

   The American Art Therapy Association, representing approximately 5,200 members, seeks applications for the position of Editor of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. The journal's mission is to inform the readership of research, recent innovations, and critical issues related to art therapy. Deadline for nominations or applications is June 1, 2013. View the complete Call for Editors.

3. 

   How Open Access will change Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences

   In a major contribution to the era-defining debate, this full Special Issue of Psychological Inquiry offers a range of views on how the Open Access Science movement will impact the study and practice of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.
   
   Click here to read the FREE Special Issue in full.

4. 

   Check Out Our Psychology Revivals 2013 Online Catalog

   We have put together this online catalog filled with Psychology Revivals published by Psychology Press and Routledge.

5. 

   The New Books in Mental Health January-April 2013 online catalog is now available!

   This online catalog is filled with the latest mental health books from Routledge, Guilford Press and Psychology Press.

   A few publishing highlights can be seen below. For a full list of books, simply click on the subject area you are interested in on the left hand side of your screen.  

6. 

   What We See and What We Say

   Image-based research methods, such as arts-based research, can fill the absence of the voice of impoverished, under-privileged populations. In What We See and What We Say, Ephrat Huss argues that images are deep and universally psycho-neurological constructs through which people process their experiences. The theoretical model demonstrated in this book demonstrates that images can be used to enable three different levels of communication: with self, with others similar to oneself, and with others who differ in terms of culture and power.

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   Creative Activities for Group Therapy

   Leading a group is a delicate balancing act of tasks and dynamic group and individual factors, and the group leader’s expertise and skill are fundamental to maintaining this balance. However, no matter how competent and well-prepared the group leader is, there can be situations that present challenges that are not easily addressed, defy conventional interventions, or call for a different approach. The material presented in this book is intended to give group leaders evidence-based creative and inspirational tools, techniques, intervention strategies, and the like to address these dilemmas and difficult situations.

8. 

   Melodies of the Mind

   What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary source of psychological data?

   Drawing on Freud's concept of the oral road to the unconscious, Melodies of the Mind invites the reader to take a journey on an aural and oral road that explores both music and emotion, and their links to the unconscious. In this book, Julie Jaffee Nagel discusses how musical and psychoanalytic concepts inform each other, showing the ways that music itself provides an exceptional non-verbal pathway to emotion – a source of 'quasi' psychoanalytical clinical data.

9. 

   Art Therapy and Learning Disabilities

   In this book Stephanie Bull and Kevin O’Farrell bring together practising clinicians who provide an insight into using contemporary art therapy with people with learning disabilities.

   The authentic voice of people who have learning disabilities is central to the book, and case examples, snapshots of thoughts, dialog, photographs and artwork are included to ensure that the subjects' voices are heard.

10. 

    Child Centered Play Therapy

    Bring Garry Landreth into your classroom to demonstrate Child Centered Play Therapy in action!

    This DVD is a perfect complement to Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship, giving students, instructors, supervisors, and practitioners visual reinforcement of the material presented in the text. It shows a complete and unrehearsed play therapy session, featuring Garry Landreth working with a young girl in a fully-eqipped play therapy room.

    Landreth provides audio commentary throughout to highlight key moments in the session and emphasize the basic principles of the child centered approach. Viewers will find watching this master therapist and pioneer of play therapy to be a unique and valuable teaching and learning opportunity.