Child Art Therapy.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Illustrations -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 20 -- DVD Contents -- A Note to the Reader/Viewer -- Chapter 1. Roots -- Chapter 2. Framework for Freedom -- Chapter 3. Understanding Development in Art -- Chapter 4. A Picture of the Therapeutic Process -- Chapter 5. Some Ways to Facilitate Expression -- Chapter 6. An Individual Art Evaluation -- Chapter 7. Decoding Symbolic Messages -- Chapter 8. Some Case Studies -- Chapter 9. Case Illustration: Understanding and Helping -- Chapter 10. A Family Art Evaluation -- Chapter 11. Family Art Therapy -- Chapter 12. Art Therapy with Parents -- Chapter 13. Group Art Therapy -- Chapter 14. Multimodality Group Therapy -- Chapter 15. Art as Therapy for Children with Disabilities -- Chapter 16. Art Therapy with Disabled Children and Their Parents -- Chapter 17. Helping the Normal Child through Art -- Chapter 18. Helping Parents through Art and Play -- Chapter 19. What Child Art Therapy Is and Who Can Do It -- Chapter 20. Why and How the Art Therapist Helps -- Chapter 21. How the Art Therapist Learns through Research -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Background -- Changes in Art Therapy and Mental Health -- Changes in Organization and Content of the Book -- PART I - THE CONTEXT -- CHAPTER 1 - Roots -- Personal -- Professional -- Personal/Professional Passage -- A Personal Experience of the Creative Process -- Making Pictures Helps My Mourning Process -- About This Book -- CHAPTER 2 - A Framework for Freedom -- Conditions for Creative Growth -- CHAPTER 3 - Understanding Development in Art -- Progression in Normal Artistic Development -- Where a Child Is.

General Issues in Development -- CHAPTER 4 - A Picture of the Therapeutic Process -- Testing -- Trusting -- Risking -- Communicating -- Facing -- Understanding -- Accepting -- Coping -- Separating -- CHAPTER 5 - Some Ways to Facilitate Expression -- A Starter (A Scribble) -- A Theme -- A Medium -- A Dream -- A Mask -- A Target -- A Tape Recorder -- A Poem -- A Story -- A Picture-Taking Machine -- Flashlights and Candles -- Extending the Range -- Conclusion -- PART II - THE INDIVIDUAL -- CHAPTER 6 - An Individual Art Evaluation -- Background -- Initiating the Interview -- Getting Started -- The Art Materials -- The Space -- Talking about the Artwork -- Abstract Artwork -- Some Things Are Easier to Say and to See in Art -- Productivity -- Recommendations -- CHAPTER 7 - Decoding Symbolic Messages -- To Write or Not to Write? -- Verbal Communications -- To Talk or Not to Talk? -- Nonverbal Communications -- Interaction with the Therapist -- Response to the Task -- Response to the Materials -- The Working Process -- Products: Form -- Form and Process as Content -- Products: Content -- Common Themes -- Self-Representations -- Degree of Disguise -- Attitude toward the Product -- Making Sense -- Reporting -- CHAPTER 8 - Some Case Studies -- Ellen: An Elective Mute -- Dorothy: A Child with Schizophrenia -- Randy: A Boy with Encopresis -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 9 - Case Illustration -- Individual Art Evaluation -- Group Art Therapy -- Joint Mother-Child Art Sessions -- Family Art Evaluation -- Family Art Therapy -- Joint Nonverbal Drawing -- PART III - THE FAMILY AND THE GROUP -- CHAPTER 10 - A Family Art Evaluation -- Format -- Scribble Drawing -- Family Representations -- Family Mural -- Free Products -- Making Sense -- Characteristics -- Modifications -- CHAPTER 11 - Family Art Therapy -- Family Member Dyads -- Conjoint Family Art Therapy.

Occasional Conjoint Family Art Sessions -- Multimodal Family Art Sessions -- CHAPTER 12 - Art Therapy with Parents -- Individual Art Therapy -- Mother-Child Art Therapy Group -- Short-Term Parent-Child Art Therapy Groups -- Mothers' Art Therapy Groups -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 13 - Group Art Therapy -- History and Development -- Deciding What to Do -- Activities in Art Therapy Groups -- Groups and How They Grow -- The Use of Structure in Unstructured Groups -- Group Themes and Concerns -- Creative Play with Food -- Role-Taking in Interviews -- Interviewing Each Other -- Reviewing in a Group -- Individual Growth in a Group: Don -- Group Growth: New Members and Endings -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 14 - Multimodality Group Therapy -- Relationships among the Arts -- The First Art-Drama Therapy Group: Latency-Age Boys -- The Second Art-Drama Therapy Group: Adolescents -- Role of the Leader -- Conclusion -- PART IV - ART THERAPY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN -- CHAPTER 15 - Art as Therapy for Children with Disabilities -- The Universality of Creativity -- Children with Schizophrenia in a Psychiatric Hospital -- Children with Physical Disabilities in a Residential Institution -- Deaf Children in a Day School -- Children with Developmental Delays in a Preschool -- Blind Children with Multiple Disabilities in a Residential School -- Changes over the Years Since the First Edition -- Special Considerations in Art for Children with Disabilities -- Values of Art for Children with Disabilities -- CHAPTER 16 - Art Therapy with Disabled Children and Their Parents -- Similarities and Differences -- Coming to Terms with Blindness -- Outpatient Mothers' Therapy Group: Sustenance and Support -- PART V - ART AS THERAPY FOR EVERYONE -- CHAPTER 17 - Helping the Normal Child through Art -- Therapeutic Values in Art Education -- Dealing with Normal Stresses through Art.

Loss of Parental Figures -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 18 - Helping Parents through Art and Play -- Art as Therapy for Normal Adults -- Education in the Community -- Family Art Workshop: Elementary School -- Parent Art Workshop in a School -- Mothers and Toddlers in a Church -- Parent Play Groups -- Sample Activities to Help Parents Understand Developmental Phases -- Possible Ways to Proceed -- PART VI - GENERAL ISSUES -- CHAPTER 19 - What Child Art Therapy Is and Who Can Do It -- Art Therapy and Art Education -- Art Therapy and Play Therapy -- Qualities of Good Child Art Therapists -- CHAPTER 20 - Why and How the Art Therapist Helps -- The Need and Capacity to Create -- The Creative Process as a Learning Experience -- The Art Therapist as a Real Person and Symbolic Other: Transference -- An Artist and a Therapist -- The Art Therapist as a Change Agent -- Extending Opportunities: Art Therapy Consultation -- CHAPTER 21 - How the Art Therapist Learns through Research -- Introduction and Issues -- Objective Observation -- Subjective Clinical Assessments -- Grouping and Goal-Setting -- Assessing Change in Blind Children I -- Assessing Change in Blind Children II -- A Phenomenological Investigation -- Self-Assessments of Art Products -- Measurement of Media Popularity -- Group Drawings and Group Dynamics -- Diagnostic Questions about Child Art -- Variability in Children's Art -- Free Association in Art Imagery -- Relationships between Creativity and Mental Health -- Comparing Products from Art and Drama Interviews -- Conclusion -- A Cautionary Note -- References -- Index.

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