Creative Arts in Counseling and Mental Health [Paperback]

Drawing on new paradigms and evidence-based discoveries in neuroscience, narrative psychology, and creativity theory, Creative Arts in Counseling and Mental Health by Philip Neilsen, Robert King, and Felicity Baker explores the beneficial role of expressive arts within a recovery perspective. A framework of practice principles for the visual arts, creative writing, music, drama, dance, and digital storytelling is addressed across a number of settings and populations, providing readers with an accessible overview of techniques taught in counseling programs in the U.S. and abroad.Drawing on new paradigms and evidence-based discoveries in neuroscience, narrative psychology, and creativity theory, Creative Arts in Counseling and Mental Health by Philip Neilsen, Robert King, and Felicity Baker explores the beneficial role of expressive arts within a recovery perspective. A framework of practice principles for the visual arts, creative writing, music, drama, dance, and digital storytelling is addressed across a number of settings and populations, providing readers with an accessible overview of techniques taught in counseling programs in the U.S. and abroad.Chapter I: Introduction - Robert King, Felicity Baker & Philip Neilsen
A Theoretical Framework for Creative Arts in Recovery
A Note on the Evidence Base for Creative Arts in Recovery
What You Will Find in this Book
About the Authors
Chapter II: Lived experience: writing and recovery - Robert King, Jon Scott & Jane Boggs
A Writing Workshop
Clubhouse Writers
Chapter III: Lived experience: visual art and music in recovery - Robert King, Patricia Strobel, Tom OBrien & Ann Bermingham
Patricia Strobel
Tom OBrien
Ann Bermingham
Chapter IV: Visual arts: principles and evidence base - Clarlc>