Arts therapies is one of the areas in which we are publishing most actively, internationally. The books described below cover both theory and practice, and are intended for the professional therapist as well as students and researchers.

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Creativity and Communication in Persons with Dementia

A Practical Guide

John Killick and Claire Craig

This book describes how to develop a creative approach to the day-to-day care of people with dementia, and provides rich and varied ideas for creative activities for use with individuals or groups. The authors explain what creativity has to offer people with dementia, and how a creative approach can help to address the difficulties they face. more »

2011, Paperback: £19.99/ $36.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-113-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 216pp

Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, art therapy, arts therapies, carers, communication, creative therapies, creativity, dance and movement therapy, dementia, music therapy, occupational therapy, older people, palliative care, person-centred, poetry

Art Therapy and Creative Coping Techniques for Older Adults

Susan I. Buchalter

Art and the therapeutic uses of art provide older people with valuable ways in which to express their feelings, needs and fears, and with a resource for coping with life's major changes. This practical book is filled with step-by-step activities for art therapists and professionals to use in work with older people either individually or in groups. more »

2011, Paperback: £20.99/ $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-830-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 328pp

Keywords: adults, anxiety, art therapy, arts therapies, creative therapies, creativity, dance and movement therapy, dementia, depression, elder abuse, emotions, expressive therapies, interdisciplinary arts therapies, mental health, music therapy, occupational therapy, older people, palliative care, psychotherapy, supported living

Healing Arts Therapies and Person-Centred Dementia Care

Edited by Anthea Innes and Karen Hatfield

Offering practical advice for arts therapists and health care professionals, this book emphasizes the importance of putting the individual before the illness to provide holistic, person-centred support for people with dementia. The contributors show how music, dance and the visual arts can be used with person-centred care to promote wellbeing. more »

2001, Paperback: £19.99/ $31.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-038-6, 216mm x 138mm / 8.5in x 5.5in, 128pp

Keywords: arts therapies, dance and movement therapy, dementia, interdisciplinary arts therapies, older people, palliative care, person-centred, psychotherapy, social work

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• ADD,
• addiction,
• ADHD,
• adolescence,
• adoption,
• adult protection,
• adults,
• aesthetics,
• alcohol,
• alternative therapies,
• Alzheimer's disease,
• anger management,
• anorexia,
• anthropology,
• anxiety,
• applied behaviour analysis,
• art therapy,
• arts therapies,
• Asperger syndrome,
• attachment,
• augmentative communication,
• autism,
• bereavement,
• bible stories,
• bipolar disorder,
• bodywork,
• brain injury,
• bulimia,
• cancer,
• careers,
• carers,
• cerebral palsy,
• challenging behaviour,
• child development,
• child protection,
• child psychiatry,
• child psychology,
• children,
• children's rights,
• Chinese culture,
• Chinese philosophy,
• cognitive behavioural therapy,
• colour therapy,
• communication,
• community care,
• complementary medicine,
• complementary therapies,
• counselling,
• creative therapies,
• creative writing as therapy,
• creativity,
• dance,
• Daoism,
• death,
• depression,
• developmental coordination disorder,
• disability,
• divorce,
• domestic abuse,
• Down's syndrome,
• dramatherapy,
• dyspraxia,
• early intervention,
• eating disorders,
• education,
• educational psychology,
• elder abuse,
• emotions,
• employment,
• energy work,
• expressive therapies,
• families,
• five elements,
• folklore and myth,
• forensic psychotherapy,
• fostering,
• giftedness,
• grief,
• group psychotherapy,
• health care,
• high functioning autism,
• inclusive classroom,
• intellectual disabilities,
• interdisciplinary arts therapies,
• joint working,
• mainstream education,
• memoirs,
• mental health,
• mental illness,
• messy play,
• mindfulness,
• movement,
• music therapy,
• nonverbal learning disabilities,
• nursing,
• occupational therapy,
• offenders,
• older people,
• pain management,
• palliative care,
• parenting,
• pastoral care,
• person-centred,
• pervasive developmental disorder,
• play,
• play therapy,
• poetry,
• practical theology,
• PSHE,
• psychiatry,
• psychoanalysis,
• psychodrama,
• psychology,
• psychosis,
• psychotherapy,
• race,
• reference,
• relationships,
• residential care,
• resilience,
• restorative justice,
• safeguarding children,
• school phobia,
• SEAL,
• self esteem,
• self harm,
• sensory issues,
• sensory stimulation,
• sexual abuse,
• sexuality,
• social care,
• social skills,
• social stories,
• social work,
• social work law,
• special education,
• speech and language pathology,
• speech and language therapy,
• spirituality,
• storymaking,
• supervision,
• supported living,
• Taoism,
• teenagers,
• theatre,
• theology,
• therapeutic communities,
• traditional Chinese medicine,
• trauma,
• violence,
• yoga,
• youthwork