Main description:

Work with your clientusing an effective multi-sensory technique

Most people are visual learners. Seeing our ideas in pictures gives them greater impact and more meaning. Interactive Art Therapy: No Talent Required Projects presents a cutting-edge therapeutic technique founded on sound clinical principles, providing another practical tool any therapist or counselor can effectively use without anyone having to be a da Vinci. The book clearly discusses the clinical rationale behind using standard drawings in therapy and demonstrates how the interactive nature of the approach helps clients to quickly and easily gain deeper insight.

Interactive Art Therapy: No Talent Required Projects helps counselors and therapists empower the client to become an active participant in the therapeutic process, allowing the flexibility of the drawings to be adaptive to the client's cognitive and developmental abilities. The book examines ways for practitioners to discern whether Interactive Art Therapy is a suitable clinical intervention for the client, then explores the ways each drawing can be used to help clients move toward breakthroughs in their therapy. The text uses case examples to clearly illustrate techniques and reveal the ways that clients' drawings reflect their thought processes.

Interactive Art Therapy: No Talent Required Projects discusses how to use simple, client-friendly drawings such as:

Cage of Fears

Teeter-Totter of Decision-Making

The Coping Arch

Boundary Castle

Well of Needs

Weight of the World

Swamp of Sympathy

Brick Wall of Barriers

The Pressure Box

Pole Vault for Goals

Interactive Art Therapy: No Talent Required Projects provides a valuable tool for therapists, school psychologists, guidance counselors, psychiatrists, marriage and family counselors, drug and alcohol counselors, pastoral counselors, educators, and students.

Contents:

Foreword (Lorna Hecker)

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Theoretical Foundation for Interactive Art Therapy

Dual-Coding Theory

Contiguity Effect

Applications for Interactive Art Therapy

Chapter 2. Cage of Fears

Objective

Rationale

Cage of Fears Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 3. Teeter-Totter of Decision Making

Objective

Rationale

Teeter-Totter of Decision Making Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 4. The Coping Arch

Objective

Rationale

The Coping Arch Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 5. Boundary Castle

Objective

Rationale

Boundary Castle Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 6. Well of Needs

Objective

Rationale

Well of Needs Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 7. Weight of the World

Objective

Rationale

Weight of the World Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 8. Swamp of Sympathy

Objective

Rationale

Swamp of Sympathy Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 9. Brick Wall of Barriers

Objective

Rationale

Brick Wall of Barriers Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 10. Bloom Where You're Planted

Objective

Rationale

Bloom Where You're Planted Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 11. The Pressure Box

Objective

Rationale

The Pressure Box Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 12. Fisherman's Wharf

Objective

Rationale

Fisherman's Wharf Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 13. Pole Vault for Goals

Objective

Rationale

Pole Vault for Goals Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 14. The Spider Web

Objective

Rationale

The Spider Web Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Chapter 15. The Cracked Vase

Objective

Rationale

The Cracked Vase Exercise Instructions

Vignette

Suggestions for Follow-Up

Contraindications for Use

Epilogue

References

Index