Prendiville / Howard Creative Psychotherapy

Applying the principles of neurobiology to play and expressive arts-based practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-39737-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

Creative Psychotherapy brings together the expertise of leading authors and clinicians from around the world to synthesise what we understand about how the brain develops, the neurological impact of trauma and the development of play. The authors explain how to use this information to plan developmentally appropriate interventions and guide creative counselling across the lifespan.

The book includes a theoretical rationale for various creative media associated with particular stages of neural development, and examines how creative approaches can be used with all client groups suffering from trauma. Using case studies and exemplar intervention plans, the book presents ways in which creative activities can be used sequentially to support healing and development in young children, adolescents and adults.

Creative Psychotherapy will be of interest to mental health professionals working with children, adolescents and adults, including play and arts therapists, counsellors, family therapists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists and teachers. It will also be a valuable resource for clinically oriented postgraduate students, and therapists who work with victims of interpersonal trauma.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prendiville, Eileen

Howard, Justine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Creative Psychotherapy: Applying the principles of neurobiology to play and expressive arts-based practice

Content Sequence

Dedication

Introduction (Eileen Prendiville & Justine Howard)

Foreword (Dr Sue Bratton)

Section 1: Applying the principles of neurobiology to play and expressive arts-based practice

Title Page

Chapter 1: Neurobiology for psychotherapists (Eileen Prendiville)

Chapter 2: Neurobiologically informed psychotherapy (Eileen Prendiville and Justine Howard)

Chapter 3: The role of non-directive and directive/Focused approaches to play and expressive arts therapy for children, adolescents, and adults (Terry Kottman, Rebecca Dickinson and Kristin Meany-Walen)

Chapter 4: Counselling skills in action with children, adolescents and adults (Lorri Yasenik and Ken Gardner)

Section 2: Working with the Brainstem and Midbrain

Title Page

Chapter 5: The role of music and rhythm in the development, integration and repair of the self (Eimir McGrath)

Chapter 6: Being, becoming and healing through movement and touch (Maggie Fearn and Pablo Troccoli)

Chapter 7: Coming Alive: Finding joy through sensory play (Siobhán Prendiville and Maggie Fearn)

Section 3: Working with the Limbic and Cortical Systems

Title Page

Chapter 8: Art in Psychotherapy: The healing power of images (Claire Colreavy Donnelly)

Chapter 9: Sandtray Therapy: A neurobiological approach (Daniel S. Sweeney)

Chapter 10: Telling Tales: Weaving new neural networks (Aideen Taylor de Faoite & Theresa Fraser)

Chapter 11: A Growing Brain – A growing imagination (Karen Stagnitti)

Conclusion & Discussion (Joan Wilson)

Über Autor(innen)

Eileen Prendiville is the Course Director for the MA Creative Psychotherapy and Play Therapy at Ireland’s Children’s Therapy Centre. She is heavily involved in providing play therapy and creative psychotherapy training, both nationally and internationally. She devised ‘The Therapeutic Touchstone’, an innovative approach for use when working with vulnerable and dependent clients and with Justine Howard, co-authored Play Therapy Today: Contemporary Practice for Individuals, Groups and Parents.

Dr Justine Howard is an Associate Professor at the College of Human and Health Science at Swansea University. She is a Chartered Psychologist and specialist in Developmental and Therapeutic Play. Her consultancy activity has included the delivery of training courses in play for a wide range of professional groups across children’s services. She is internationally recognised as an expert in play and child development and has published numerous journal articles, book chapters and books in this field.