Craft in Art Therapy: Diverse Approaches to the Transformative Power of Craft Materials and Methods

ISBN-13: 9780367343163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 284 str.

Lauren Leone

Opis

Craft in Art Therapy is the first book dedicated to illustrating the incorporation of craft materials and methods into art therapy theory and practice.

 

Spis treści

PART I: Craft as a Tool for Transformation and Self-Care:1. Crafting the Artist Book as Embodied, Relational Practice; 2. Healing With Fire: The Use of Hot Glass in Art Therapy; 3. From Clay to Ceramic: An Alchemical Process of Self-Transformation; 4. Demystifying the Individualistic Approach to Self-care: Sewing as a Metaphorical Process for Documenting Relational and Communal Care in Disability Culture; 5. Emptying the Jar: Crochet to Unpack Toxic Racial Stress; PART II: Craft as Culturally Resonant and Accessible; 6. Embroidering Pieces of Place; 7. Healing Roots of Indigenous Crafts: Adapting Traditions of India for Art Therapy Practice; 8. Integrating Traditional Crafts within Clinical Practice: A Cross-Cultural Group Case Study; 9. Using Crafts in Art Therapy Through an Intersectional Feminist Empowerment Lens: The Case of Bedouin Embroidery in Israel; PART III: Craft as Empowerment and Activism;10. Finding Our Way Together: Exploring the Therapeutic Benefits of Collaborative Craft Activism;11. Zines, the DIY Ethic, and Empowering Marginalized Identities; 12. Alone in the Desert: Making Sense of the Senseless Through Story Cloths;13. Empowerment Through Mentorship: Peer-Led Craft Workshops in a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital; 14. Queer Ethos in Art Therapy; 15. Quilting Across Prison Walls: Craftwork, Social Practice, and Radical Empathy.

O autorze

Lauren Leone, DAT, ATR-BC, LMHC, is an assistant professor of art therapy at Lesley University, maintains a private practice, and facilitates a community-based art therapy group. Her research interests include the therapeutic benefits of craft activism and how emancipatory pedagogy informs art therapy practice and education.