This book explores the effectiveness of art therapy as treatment for cumulative trauma survivors.
Bringing together case studies, research and the author’s clinical and personal experience, it outlines different clinical approaches as well as numerous art therapy interventions that are processed through somatic, metaverbal, and narrative means. It further aims to answer the question of “how art therapy works,” by pairing aspects of Lusebrink’s Expressive Therapies Continuum with Perry’s four functional domains (from the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics) to demonstrate how these practices may increase relational capacity and the patient’s access to higher level functioning, in turn decreasing trauma responses.
Foregrounding a person-centered and multi-dimensional approach to trauma repair and creative interventions, this book will appeal to postgraduate students in art therapy and counselling, as well as professionals and researchers in somatic work and trauma specialties.
By:
Jennifer Albright Knash Imprint: Routledge Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN:9781032695259 ISBN 10: 1032695250 Series:Advances in Mental Health Research Pages: 104 Publication Date:12 November 2024 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Jennifer Albright Knash is the Academic Programs Director at Southwestern College, Santa Fe, NM, USA, and an art therapist, supervisor, and counselor at Albright Art Therapy and Counseling.