Arts Therapies In International Practice Informed By Neuroscience And Research | Education

Arts Therapies in International Practice: Informed by Neuroscience and Research brings together practice and research in the arts therapies and in neuroscience. The authors are all arts therapists who have reviewed their practice through the lens of modern neuroscience. Neuroscience confirms the importance of embodiment choice and creativity in therapy with a range of clients. Arts therapies directly provide these. The authors demonstrate how the arts therapies can be adapted creatively to work in different social and ethnic communities with different ages and with different states of health or ill health. Although there is diversity in their practice and country of practice they reaffirm key concepts of the arts therapies such as the importance of the therapeutic relationship and the key role played by the arts modality with its effects on the brain and nervous system. This book will appeal to a wide readership including arts therapists expressive arts therapists a range of other psychotherapists and counsellors students and their teachers and those interested in the neuroscience of human development. |Arts Therapies in International Practice Informed by Neuroscience and Research | Education