Arts therapies in the treatment of depression

✍ Scribed by Zubala, Ania(Contributor);Karkou, Vassiliki(Contributor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: International research in the arts therapies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depressionis a comprehensive compilation of expert knowledge on arts therapies' potential in successfully addressing depression. The book identifies best possible ways of addressing the condition in therapy sessions, shares experience of tools and approaches which seem to work best and guides towards a conscious and confident evidence-based practice.



Including contributions from international experts in the field of arts therapies, the book presents most recent, high-profile and methodologically diverse research, whether in the form of clinical trials, surveys or case studies. The three sections of this volume correspond to particular life stages and explore major topics in arts therapies practice and the nature of depression in children, adults and in later life. Individual chapters within the three sections represent all four arts therapies disciplines. The book hopes to improve existing arts therapies practice and research, by encouraging researchers to use creativity in designing meaningful research projects and empowering practitioners to use evidence creatively for the benefit of their clients and the discipline.



Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression is an essential resource for arts therapies researchers, practitioners and arts therapists in training. It should also be of interest to other health researchers and health professionals, particularly those who work with clients experiencing depression and in multidisciplinary teams.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 11
Introduction: Arts therapies’ response to the global crisis of depression: current research and future developments......Page 18
Part I Arts therapies with children and adolescents experiencing depression......Page 28
1 Music therapy and prevention of depression in primary-aged children: reflections on case work and assessment in a residential child and family psychiatric unit......Page 30
2 Art therapy to address emotional wellbeing of children who have experienced stress and/or trauma......Page 47
3 Reducing depressive symptoms in adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder using drama therapy......Page 65
4 Movement-based arts therapy for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia......Page 85
Part II Arts therapies with adults experiencing depression......Page 102
5 Collaborative discourse analysis on the use of drama therapy to treat depression in adults......Page 104
6 An essence of the therapeutic process in an art therapy group for adults experiencing depression: therapy process mapping......Page 119
7 Embodied treatment of depression: the development of a dance movement therapy model......Page 137
8 Reversing a sub-cultural norm: art therapy in treating depression in prison inmates......Page 153
9 Music therapy clinical practice and research for people with depression: music, brain processing and music therapy......Page 171
10 Phototherapy in the treatment of patients with depression in a clinical setting: development and evaluation through a randomised controlled trial......Page 189
Part III Arts therapies with those experiencing depression in later life......Page 206
11 Art therapy with the older person: one life, many losses......Page 208
12 Dramatherapy in working with people with dementia: the need for playfulness in creative ageing as an antidote for depression and isolation......Page 221
13 Dance movement therapy research and evidence-based practice for older people with depression......Page 234
14 Perspectives on research and clinical practice in music therapy for older people with depression......Page 244
15 Assessment and therapeutic application of the expressive therapies continuum in music therapy: the case of Anna with cancer-related depression......Page 258
Index......Page 272