Expressive Arts for Social Work and Social Change

ISBN-13: 9780190912406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str.

Tuula Heinonen; Deana Halonen; Elizabeth Krahn

Opis

How can social work practice be enriched by complementary approaches and methods from expressive arts? This book responds by offering concepts and values that promote individual and social change and transformation. The text is enhanced by examples, reflection questions, and resources.

Recenzje

The volume brings together a wide range of topics and deserves broad readership

O autorze

Tuula Heinonen is Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. She is engaged in arts-informed qualitative inquiry; social work and health; newcomer settlement and transitions; and international social development, aging, and gender. She is also an art therapist interested in integrating drawing, painting, and collage in social work practice, inquiry, and education. Deana Halonen is an Instructor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. For the past 10 years, she has worked as Coordinator of the Distance Delivery Social Work Program and taught both online and blended learning courses using educational technology. She is a collaborative, experiential teacher and learner who takes every opportunity available to integrate the expressive arts into social work practice, inquiry, and education. Elizabeth Krahn is a social work counselor in her eighth year of private practice, having previously worked for a number of years as a mental health social worker with adults of all ages and stages of life. She has also spent the last 10 years engaged in ethnographic and oral history research and the restorying of collective trauma and its lifespan and intergenerational effects, particularly in relation to attachment insecurities. As counselor, researcher, and presenter, she integrates story and metaphor, visual art-making, and/or photographs to enrich the process.