Multicultural Family Art Therapy [Paperback]

How does the family art therapist understand the complexities of anothers cultural diversity? What are international family therapists perspectives on treatment? These questions and more are explored in Multicultural Family Art Therapy, a text that demonstrates how to practice psychotherapy within an ethnocultural and empathetic context. Each international author presents their clinical perspective and cultural family therapy narrative, thereby giving readers the structural framework they need to work successfully with clients with diverse ethnic backgrounds different from their own. 
A wide range of international contributors provide their perspectives on visual symbols and content from America, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Australia, Israel, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Trinidad, Central America, and Brazil. They also address a diversity of theoretical orientations, including attachment, solution-focused, narrative, parent-child, and brief art therapy, and write about issues such as indigenous populations, immigration, acculturation, identity formation, and cultural isolation. At the core of this new text is the realization that family art therapy should address not only the diversity of theory, but also the diversity of international practice.

Introduction. 1. The use of Verbal and Visual Metaphors in Couples TherapyC.Kerr 2.Art Therapy with Families in Canada L.Prouilex, M.Winkel3. Respect: A Personal Account of Practicing Family Art Therapy from a Solution Focused Perspective in Britain N.Corcos 4.Art Therapy in UK Schools: Engaging the Family from a Narrative Perspective L.Hill 5. Keeper of the Hearth M.T.Adams 6. Family Art Therapy: Dots, Meaning and Metaphor A.M.Coulter7. Parent-Child (Dyadic) Art-Psychotherapy and Trauma  When the Implicit Becomes Explicit D.Markman 8. Russian Family Art Tl³%