Creative Response Activities for Children on the Spectrum: A Therapeutic and Educational Memoir

ISBN-13: 9781138686601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 308 str.

David Henley

Opis

Written by a nationally recognized authority on child art therapy, Creative Response Activities for Children on the Spectrum is a clear, comprehensive, and intuitive guide that offers a wide selection of hands-on interventions to be used in any therapeutic or educational setting with children who are -on the spectrum.- From drawing and writing poetry to skiing and skateboarding, this book describes these and many other creative activities geared towards children with autistic features, attention deficits, hyperactivity, pediatric bipolar disorder, and other related conditions. This new resource provides an innovative blend of theory and illustrative case examples designed to help therapists and educators assess children's needs, formulate therapeutic and aesthetic interventions, and analyze creative outcomes.

Spis treści

I. The Creative Response  Introduction: Why Creative Response Activities  1. Beginnings  2. First Clients and Creative Responses  3. Mapping the Spectrum  4. Socialization  5. The Creative Response Activity  6. Stimulus-Based Interventions  II. Towards a Theory of the Psyche  7. The Psyche and Paradigms  8. Functional Methodologies  9. Media and Technology  III. The Artists  10. On the Autistic Continuum  11. Hyperactive Attentional Spectrum  12. Creative Action Responses  13. Mood Involvements  14. Delusions and the ‘Other World’  15. The Written Word  16. Shadow Syndromes and Religiosity  17. Domestic Violence  18. War and Trauma  19. Hope and Advocacy  20. Resonance  References