Are you in need of some variety and imagination for your art therapy repertoire? If so, this is the book for you! Diane Fausek’s unique approaches, materials, and advice will inspire you to tap into your own well of creativity to design your own treatment plans.
Key Features
- Fresh Ideas: Offers unique approaches and materials for art therapy.
- Step-by-Step Plans: Lays out the ingredients and plans to implement your own therapeutic skills.
- Specific Guidelines: Provides directions on topic and material implementation for easier planning.
- Creative Techniques: Learn how to interweave fabric techniques and collage with personal philosophies and challenges.
- Sensory Stimulation: Enhance sensory stimulation through collage.
- Abstract Thinking: Use painting techniques to improve abstract thinking skills and the ability to find images.
- Collage Techniques: Develop collage techniques using both traditional and nontraditional materials.
- Nature Objects: Employ nature objects that emphasise clients’ own natural flaws and strengths.
- Focus on Self-Definition: Use stencils and the individual’s silhouette to focus thoughts and energies at self-definition and group dynamics.
Additional Information
A Practical Guide to Art Therapy Groups is the only book of its kind. It gives you not only fresh ideas, but also specific directions on topic and material implementation. With the book’s specific guidelines and practical advice, you will find planning therapeutic group sessions easier and less time-consuming. When struggling for ideas, you can turn to this book as a source for many appealing themes and issues, already organized and grouped together with compatible materials for your convenience. Within this book, you’ll find many successful treatment plans that have been used in long-term care settings with clients affected by Alzheimer’s, stroke complications, geri-psychiatric conditions, and developmental disabilities. Each plan can be adapted to fit your particular setting and the needs of your clients.
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