Main description:

Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations offers an in-depth insight into cross-modality and transdisciplinary practice in the arts therapies. Including contributions from drama, music, dance movement and art therapists, as well as professionals from related disciplines, it vividly demonstrates how the alchemy of these collaborations produces innovative interventions and new approaches to working with clients.

Compelling examples of collaborative practice cover a variety of client groups, ranging from Syrian refugee children and women with eating disorders, to homeless war veterans and sex offenders. Together, the authors make the case for the effectiveness of cross-modal and transdisciplinary approaches when working with otherwise hard-to-reach and complex populations.

This book is a guide to good practice and an invaluable resource for both experienced arts therapists and those new to the field. It will also be of benefit to healthcare and education professionals, arts practitioners, and anyone with an interest in the subject.

Contents:

List of Contributors Foreword Introduction

Part I: Cross Modality Practice and Research in the Arts Therapies 1 Not Doing What it Says on the Tin: A family awareness group in a high security hospital 2 Moving Colour: Combining dance movement psychotherapy and art psychotherapy in a NHS community women's group 3 Staying Connected: Combining music therapy and dance movement psychotherapy in an acute mental health setting 4 Facing Rupture and Nurturing a Creative Space: A dramatherapy and art therapy group on an acute ward in a medium secure forensic hospital 5 Ambivalence, Boundaries, Edges and Expansion: Relatedness and collaboration in a dance movement psychotherapy and music therapy group for adults with learning disabilities 6 Stretch Marks: An exploration of a joint dramatherapy and music therapy group 7 An Innovative Collaboration: Combining art and music therapy interventions for adults with learning disabilities 8 Holding Hope: Rehabilitation of Syrian refugee children through art, music and dance movement therapy

Part II: Transdisciplinary Practice and Research in the Arts Therapies 9 Regaining Balance through Family Art Psychotherapy 10 A Transdisciplinary Approach: Working with individuals in a sex offender treatment programme 11 The Boy Who Cried Wolf: A collaborative approach to long term segregation 12 Left Overs: Exploring Body Image 13 Almost Paradise: A creative arts collaboration helping US veterans recover from homelessness