A Theory-Based Approach to Art Therapy: Implications for Teaching, Research and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780815356363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 216 str.

Israel Dr. Ephrat (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Huss

Opis

This book provides a theory-based approach to research, teaching, and practicing art therapy, discussing how the different respective theoretical orientations of psychology and social studies are interpreted and implemented by art therapy.

Spis treści

Introduction.  Section 1: Art Therapy According to Theory  Art as a Path to the Unconscious: Art therapy and Psychodynamic theory.  Art as Relationships: Art therapy and object relations.  Art as the Ego: Art therapy and ego psychology.  Culturally Contextualized Art as Healing on a Pre-conscious Level: Art therapy and Jung.  Summary of Dynamic Theories.  Art as a Path to the Self: Art therapy and Humanistic theories.  Art as Experience: Art therapy and Gestalt.  Art as Development: Art therapy and Developmental theories.  Art as Telling and Re-telling: Art therapy and Narrative theory.  Art as the Positive: Art therapy and positive psychology.  Summary of Humanistic Theories.  Art as Showing a System: Art therapy and systemic theory.  Art as Claiming Space: Art therapy and empowerment.  Art as a Space to Fight: Art therapy and social theories.  Art as Cultural Values: Art therapy and culture  Section 2: Pulling it Together through Theory: Art-Settings-Populations  Doing the Art: Setting-Process-Interpretation.  Individual, Family, Group, and Community.  Deconstructing Populations.  Evaluation Supervision and Research.

O autorze

Dr Ephrat Huss is Senior Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and Chair of the Arts in Social Practice MA specialization. Before this, she worked for many years as a supervising art therapist, family therapist and social worker before turning to research, and still strongly believes in the connection between theory and practice.