Occupational therapy Books

Susan Hogan's book is informative, well researched and entertaining. As well as providing an authoritative history of art therapy, it covers such diverse topics as the philosophy of art therapy, the...

Whether working in urban areas with high levels of cultural diversity, providing art therapy to ‘unique' populations such as prisoners or asylums seekers, or introducing art therapy programs to parts...

Systemic Constellation Work is a rapidly growing experiential healing process that is being embraced by a variety of helping professionals, both traditional and alternative, worldwide. This book...

Yoga postures, meditation and art therapy-based techniques are combined in this innovative approach structured around targeting a specific treatment goal for each therapeutic session. For each goal,...

Following on from The Big Book of Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Children and Teens, this book provides EVEN MORE imaginative and fun activity ideas, lessons, and projects for use with difficult and...

When you think of arts therapy, you don't often associate the practice with profit; however, ethical economic models are essential in allowing clients the most access to arts therapy services. Art...

Gary is a dementia care advisor for Four Seasons Health Care in the UK. Previously a dementia care nurse, Gary's role now relates to the development, implementation and evaluation of best practices...

Frances F. Kaplan is an eminent art therapist and teaches graduate art therapy courses at Marylhurst College and Portland State University, both in Oregon. She has published widely, presented at...

It can be difficult to be spontaneous during every art therapy group. It is helpful to have a resource full of creative and inspiring ideas that can be utilized as needed. This broad-ranging...

This second edition of Ann Cattanach's highly commended book explores the use of play therapy with abused children as a way of helping them heal their distress and make sense of their experiences...

Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy: The Arts and Human Suffering explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by...

The Creative Cognitive Therapy Method is a short-term, 10-session, solution-focused therapy combining cognitive-behavioural therapy with art therapy, designed to help people heal from a variety of...

Intersectionality and the Arts Psychotherapies advocates for contextualising of clinical thinking and experience within a social and political framework that acknowledges the importance of...

This photocopiable activity book helps teens and tweens who are feeling voiceless,ineffective or fearful in response to events at a world, community or individual level. Itincorporates exercises...

This is the first book to explore and evaluate the potential of museum and gallery spaces and partnerships for art therapy. Showcasing approaches by well-known art therapists, the edited collection...

'One should try to see health and disease in light of the theory of colour.' -- Rudolf Steiner This book is the result the of the author's adventure in painting and work with Liane Collot d'Herbois...

A leading course text and practitioner resource for over 20 years--now revised and updated--this book presents developmentally and culturally informed methods for helping children in family, school,...

Highly practical and user friendly, this book presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician's toolbox. The expert authors draw from multiple theoretical orientations to...

This book vividly shows how creative arts and play therapy can help children recover from experiences of disrupted or insecure attachment. Leading practitioners explore the impact of early...

Demonstrating the benefits of creative expression for patients living with acute or chronic illness, this volume provides a complete, practical introduction to medical art therapy. It presents...

A person-centered, recovery-oriented, and occupation-based approach to mental health across the lifespan. This revision of a well-loved text continues to embrace the confluence of person,...

Drawing on the author's extensive experience of working with distressed and traumatized individuals for whom this has not happened, the booklet explains the essential stages of emotional development,...

The FAIT is a simple assessment tool that helps staff working with people with intellectual disabilities who have experienced trauma, to determine the level of emotional development of the distressed...

Jenny Pearson is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist (BPC) in private practice. Jenny trained as a dramatherapist and taught on the Sesame Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She also...

Conflict is an increasing feature of modern life, and very often it has disastrous and destructive outcomes. This volume examines the contribution that can be made by arts approaches, both to our...

Peter Slade (1912+â-ó+óGÇÜ-¼+óGé¼+ô2004) was a pioneer in the field of theatre for children and was also known as an expert in work for those with special needs. He was the first person to speak on...

''In addition to being a ''how to'' manual for art and dramatherapy, this book is a mélange of autobiography, anthropology, psychoanalysis, case reports, cross-cultural analysis, art reproduction,...

Resonant learning allows students to develop and fine-tune their therapeutic competencies through first-hand experiences: being in client roles themselves, being in preliminary therapist roles with...

Laying out a new integrative approach to the treatment of depression, this book looks at the biological, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of clinical art therapy. Skov presents the...

Alison Chown is a play therapist and experienced specialist teacher for children and young people with complex behavioural, emotional and social difficulties. She is an independent practitioner and...

Nature Therapy is an innovative approach based on the direct and creative dialogues humans have with nature. For the first time in the English language, this book presents the theory behind the...

Marion Baraitser is an award-winning, performed and commissioned London playwright and published short story writer. She was given the British Council Travel Award to foster peace in the...

Jos De Backer is a Professor of music therapy at Leuven University College of Arts (LUCA), campus Lemmensinstituut, Belgium and is Head of the Masters training course in music therapy. He studied...

On Becoming a Jungian Sandplay Therapist discusses the deep inner process of becoming a sandplay therapist and addresses important creative aspects of understanding and practising sandplay. It...

Using a contemporary synthesis of Jungian and Post-Jungian imaginal perspectives, animate ecological phenomenology, somatics and recent scholarship in dance movement and progressive spiritualities,...

Using drama in the classroom is an effective way of supporting a child's social and emotional development. This book offers a wide variety of drama activities designed to provide children with a...

Forensic Music Therapy demonstrates diverse and innovative approaches, which include live, improvised and pre-composed music, from music therapy teams working in secure treatment settings. The book...

Musical improvisation is an increasingly recognised rehabilitative therapy for people who have experienced traumatic brain injury initially thought to be 'unreachable' or 'non-responsive'. Music...

Use of the arts in palliative care settings is a powerful and effective way of addressing the practical, psychological, social and spiritual issues faced by service users in end-of-life care.The...

Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools.The...

This international collection examines the opportunities for using music-induced states of altered consciousness to promote physical and mental healing, treat substance dependence, and in spiritual...

The central tenet of this innovative collection is that identity can be regarded as a performance, achieved through and in dialogue with others. The authors show that where neuro-degenerative disease...

Drama Therapy and Storymaking in Special Education is a practical resource book for professionals that covers the broad spectrum of students attending special needs schools, including those with...

In recent years there has been increasing interest in the implementation of group music therapy. Literature to analyse, guide and further this practice is long overdue, so in this book Mercédès...

Mary Jane Markell was a Founding Member of Sandplay Therapists of America and a Teaching Member of the International Society of Sandplay Therapists; she served on the Executive Board of ISST for four...

Group music therapy has been widely practised for many years, especially within institutional settings, and features substantially in training, yet there has been no publication devoted to the...

Music communicates where words fail, and music therapy has been proven to connect with those who were thought to be unreachable, making it an ideal medium for working with those who have suffered...

At a time when expectations and assumptions about the delivery of services to children and adolescents are being reconfigured - for example, around the rights of children and adolescents as young...