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The Expressive Arts Activity Book Wende Heath

The Expressive Arts Activity Book By Wende Heath

The Expressive Arts Activity Book by Wende Heath


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Summary

This resource comprises a collection of tried-and-tested activities for use with people in a range of care settings, to help them explore their knowledge of themselves and to make sense of their experiences. Among the issues addressed by the activities are exploring physical changes, emotional trauma, interpersonal problems and spiritual dilemmas.

The Expressive Arts Activity Book Summary

The Expressive Arts Activity Book: A Resource for Professionals by Wende Heath

This resource comprises a collection of accessible, flexible, tried-and-tested activities for use with people in a range of care settings, to help them explore their knowledge of themselves and to make sense of their experiences.

Among the issues addressed by the activities are exploring physical changes, emotional trauma, interpersonal problems and spiritual dilemmas. Featuring individual and group activities of varying difficulty, including card making, painting to music, meditation, and body mapping, it also includes real-life anecdotes that bring the techniques to life.

The Expressive Arts Activity Book is full of fun, easy, creative ideas for workers in hospitals, clinics, schools, hospices, spiritual and religious settings, and in private practice.

The Expressive Arts Activity Book Reviews

I would definitely recommend the activities in this book to those who have the professional experince to deal positively with some of the profound and often challenging issues that are explored. For those experiencing ill health, these activities will give insight and meaning into their situations and could provide the key to regaining wellbeing; perhaps a deeper wellbeing than they have previously known. -- Mailout
You've made a fabulous book. I delight in all the modalities of all the activities you describe, and am especially moved by your tone, and the way you weave in countless stories of putting them in use with people in various stages of health and morale in the hospital setting. The difficulties and failures are as helpful to read as the enthusiastic successes. -- Email endorsement by Joanna Macy
A state-of-the-art book, filled with creative practical techniques, thoughtful advice and lessons from excellent case examples that all healthcare practitioners-physicians and allied healthcare professionals alike-can apply for the therapeutic and health-promoting benefits for their patients and clients. -- from the Foreword by Gene D. Cohen MD PhD, Director of the Center on Aging, Health and Humanities, Professor of Health Care Sciences and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences and The George Washington Society
It goes far beyond most psychology and educational guides to offer a set of creative ideas and exercises hospital workers, schools and other caregivers can use in the daily course of their interactions. It's an invaluable workbook that health collections will find important. -- The Midwest Book Review
This is a useful book for professionals who carry out therapeutic work within a healthcare setting. The book provides ideas on facilitating icebreakers and final sessions as well as poetry and guided imagery; therefore, hospital play specialists would find this a useful resource. -- PlayWords Magazine - Common Threads
This book has my unequivocal endoresement. I can imagine myself impletmenting many of the activities that Darley and Heath so competently and generously offer us. Not only would these activities serve the needs of my own patients and students but they would help me meet my own professional obligation in terms of reflective practice. I also find myself looking ahead to practising some self care in implementing many of their suggestions for being present to ourselves. I thank Darley and Heath for nurturing and sustaining those of us who live to affirm (along with them) the deep and abiding power of art. -- The Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal

About Wende Heath

Suzanne Darley has worked in arts and education for over 30 years. She holds an MA in East-West Psychology and is a certified Expressive Arts Educator. She has worked in primary health care settings for three years at the Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, California, and California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and is currently teaching at San Francisco Waldorf High School. Wende Heath is a Clinical Therapist, a board certified Art Therapist and a registered Expressive Arts Therapist with over twenty years of therapeutic and art experience in a variety of healthcare settings. She developed and directed the Expressive Arts Program for the Institute of Health and Healing at Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, California, and California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She is a consultant for the Society for the Arts in Healthcare and is an Arts and Culture commissioner for the city of Richmond, California.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction. 1. Why Art? 2. Who Should Use This Book? 3. Everything You Need to Know about Art Materials. 4. Presence, Presence, Presence. 5. Ready, Steady, Go. 6. Notes from the Practice. 7. The Activities. Appendix A. Patterns and Projects. Appendix B. History. Appendix C. Associations and Professional Organizations. Appendix D. References. Index

Additional information

GOR005258493
9781843108610
1843108615
The Expressive Arts Activity Book: A Resource for Professionals by Wende Heath
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
20071115
216
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - The Expressive Arts Activity Book