Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Allied Health Services - Occupational Therapy

This book provides a rigorous and comprehensive account of primitive expression in dance therapy, focusing on the use of rhythm and exploring the therapeutic potential inherent in the diverse traditions of popular dance, from tribal shamanic dance to styles such as rock, rap and hip-hop strongly present in our contemporary society.

Drawing on the author s vast experience in the field of dance therapy, the book examines biological, psychological and anthropological foundations of rhythm based therapies, considering their roots in biological rhythms such as the heartbeat and using...

Utilising non-representational theories and practice-led research methods, this book serves to reclaim therapeutics as ecological, spatial and material. It examines the sites and performances of a wide range of therapeutic art practices, including painting and drawing, dance movement therapy, fibre art, subterranean graffiti practice, and poetic permaculture. In doing so it provides an important assessment of the role and status of therapy in contemporary life.

A highly interdisciplinary text, Boyd s research is informed by a thorough reading of post-structural theory...

Laura Best untersucht die Interaktion von Reasoning-Prozessen innerhalb ergotherapeutischer Beratungssituationen mithilfe des Einsatzes von Head-mounted Cameras und videogestutzter Interviews. Sie identifiziert und erlautert sieben interaktive Reasoning-Kategorien zwischen Ergotherapeutinnen und -therapeuten und ihren Klientinnen und Klienten. Diese Reasoning-Kategorien stellt sie in vier dynamischen Interaktionsmustern dar. Die Autorin hebt die Bedeutung von Verbundenheit innerhalb der ergotherapeutischen Beratungsbeziehung hervor und sensibilisiert fur die Beziehungsbedurfnisse von...

"They Students] like the activities since it helps them learn more about the counseling theory which was discussed in the Theories of Counseling class. It provides more application. Some activities are pretty detailed and class time does not allow for much practice. But, we discuss how this could be used in therapy sessions/groups... The book] is short and very pointed in its information and use. We like it "--Judy A. Schmidt, EdD, CRC, LPCA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Expanded and revised to reflect a broader understanding of the...