Handbook Of Expressive Arts Therapy

This authoritative and comprehensive volume explains how to integrate movement, sound, art, play, imagery, drama, and other multisensory practices into psychotherapy. Cathy A. Malchiodi and other leading experts demonstrate ways to combine a wide range of expressive approaches to help clients explore feelings and thoughts that are often difficult to access verbally. Rich case examples illustrate what these modalities look like in action, providing readers with strategies they can readily apply in work with individuals of all ages. The book interweaves theory and research with practical recommendations for implementing expressive arts therapy to enhance communication and to support regulation, attachment, trauma recovery, and sensory integration.

I. Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy
1. What is Expressive Arts Therapy?, Cathy A. Malchiodi
2. Frameworks for Expressive Arts Therapy, Cathy A. Malchiodi
3. Attunement in Expressive Arts: Attachment, Rhythm, Resonance, and Embodied Empathy, Mitchell Kossak
4. Bridging Arts and Science in Expressive Arts Therapy, Patricia Leavy
II. Core Practices and Methodology
5. The Integrative Process of Expressive Arts Therapy, Karen Estrella
6. Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy, Sue Ann Herron
7. Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts Therapy, Laury Rappaport
8. Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy, Cathy A. Malchiodi
9. Playing through an Expressive Lens, Renee Turner
10. Narrative Expressive Arts Therapy, Shoshana Simons
11. Expressive Arts Therapy and Mindfulness, Karin von Daler
III. Integrating the Expressive Arts in Therapy
12. Sandtray and Expressive Arts in Child Psychotherapy: Using Play as a Neural Exercise, Theresa Kestly
13. Bilateral Body Mapping with Guided Drawing, Cornelia Elbrecht
14. Meeting the Moment: Music Therapy as Part of Arts-Focused Hospice Care, Laura E. Beer
15. Polyvagal-Informed Dance/Movement Therapy: Dance and Music on the Creative Continuum with Survivors of Trauma, Amber Elizabeth L. Gray
16. The Dancing Mindfulness Approach to Expressive Arts Therapy: Trauma-Focused Solutions for Group and Individual Settings, Jamie Marich
17. Integrative Drama Therapy in the Treatment of Trauma: Matching Aesthetic Properties to Patient Needs, Craig Haen
18. Integrating Creative Writing and Expressive Arts, Suzan Lemont

"Malchiodi and colleagues elegantly describe how expressive arts therapy can facilitate healing of brain, mind, and body, by fostering social connection, emotion regulation, rhythm, and play. These approaches have been used for centuries and have the ability to aid in healing traumatized individuals and communities. A ''must read''!"--Ruth A. Lanius, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, Canada

"A comprehensive guide to understanding the breadth and depth of expressive arts as a mental health intervention. Malchiodi has brought together a team of experts who lead the reader through the rationale for expressive arts therapy from multiple theoretical frameworks and applied to multiple populations. Contributors give particular attention to current issues related to interpersonal neurobiology, social justice, and trauma. The clinical illustrations bring the interventions to life and help readers fully appreciate the difference that expressive arts therapy can make for clients. I would use this book as the primary text for our graduate expressive arts course, or as a recommended text for my advanced play therapy course. I especially appreciate the chapters that address history and theory, which will help graduate students develop a stronger theoretical grounding for their work."--Dee C. Ray, PhD, LPC-S, NCC, RPT-S, Regents Professor in Counseling and Higher