Integrative Arts Psychotherapy: Using an Integrative Theoretical Frame and the Arts in Psychotherapy

✍ Scribed by Claire Louise Vaculik, Gary Nash

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 251
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a new addition to the art therapy literature setting out an integrative approach to using theory and the arts, which places clients at the centre of practice and supports collaboration across the therapeutic journey. The structural framework described enables different theories, contemporary research, and best-practice guidelines to be used to inform therapy, allowing the practitioner to work fluidly and rigorously in response to their clients’ changing needs and therapeutic aims.

Integrative arts psychotherapy brings therapeutic practice to life, as the use of the visual arts is enhanced by the possibilities offered for developing and deepening therapeutic work using sculpture/clay, drama/puppetry, poetry, sand play, music, and bodywork/movement. The work described in this book has grown from a British and European art therapy culture, community, and history – influenced by prominent American theorists.

The book has been written for trainers, trainees, and practitioners of creative arts therapies, psychotherapy, and expressive arts therapies – nationally and worldwide. It may also be of interest to other professionals, or those in consultation with an art therapist, who want to understand what this type of art therapy can offer.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
Biographies
Acknowledgements
Foreword: Therapeutic communities of creation
Introduction to integrative arts psychotherapy
Part I Integrating the arts in psychotherapy: development of an integrative approach in the UK
1 History and development of integrative arts psychotherapy in Britain
2 Transformation across the art forms: metamorphosis and motif
Part II Ideas that help us to understand the use of the arts in psychotherapy and to work integratively
3 Integrating theory and practice: a literature review of the arts in psychotherapy
4 The six therapeutic relationships and the arts: an integrative approach to using theory, research, and the creative arts in practice
Part III Creative integration in practice – working with individuals
5 Hide and seek: using the arts and the body to assist discovery and self-awareness
6 Embodying metaphor: visual art, movement, and the body
7 Embodied sound: voicing the voiceless self
8 Working in partnership with service users experiencing anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation in individual therapy, using the therapeutic relationship framework as a model for integration
9 Online integrative arts psychotherapy
Part IV Creative integration in practice – working with groups
10 Self-reflective groups in action: working with difference, politics, and the creative arts as a bridge for connection and taking up space
11 Untold stories – the art of imagination in later life: storytelling and multi-modal arts psychotherapy on an older adult inpatient mental health ward
12 Creating an integrative arts psychotherapy group treatment model to support people with a dual diagnosis in residential rehab: RAFT (Recovery and Aftercare from Formative Trauma)
Part V Reflections on an integrative approach and innovations in practice
13 Collaboration, co-design, and co-production: perspectives on art as therapy and service user involvement in assessment, treatment planning, evaluation, and research
14 Integrative research: using art to research art
15 Creative and collaborative approaches to researching integrative arts psychotherapy
Index