Healing the inner city child : creative arts therapies with at-risk youth /
Publication details: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.Description: 319 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781843108245
- 1843108240
- RJ505.A7 H43 2007
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Whitecliffe Library Arts Therapy | Arts Therapy | RJ 505 ART HEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0007508 |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The inner city -- At-risk children -- Challenges faced by at-risk children in the inner city -- Outcomes for at-risk children in the inner city -- Moderating factors -- Therapy with inner city at-risk children -- "Hear me sing": structured group songwriting with inner city at-risk children / Vanessa A. Camilleri -- Lifesongs: music therapy with adolescents in foster care / Diane Austin -- "Can you play with me?": dealing with trauma, grief and loss through analytical music therapy and play therapy / Juliane Kowski -- Honoring Timothy's spirit: mural making to express, process, and overcome grief and loss / Dan Summer -- The architecture of self-expression: creating community through art with children on Chicago's south side / Dorothy C. McGuire -- SOHO--Space of Her Own: an art-based mentoring program for girls / Linda K. Odell -- Collaboration and creativity: art therapy groups in a school suspension program / Ashley R. Dorr -- Prevention interventions: art and drama therapy in three settings / Laura Soble and Janet K. Long -- Emotional repair through action methods: the use of psychodrama, sociometry, psychodramatic journaling and experiential group therapy with adolescents / Tian Dayton -- "Make me wanna holler": dramatic encounters with boys from the inner city / Craig Haen -- "Sit down and be quiet!": dance and movement therapy in an inner city elementary school after-care program / Susan Kierr -- Operatic play: a drama and music therapy collaboration / Maria Hodermarska and Suzannah Scott-Moncrieff -- Safe expressions: a community-based creative arts therapy program for at-risk youth / Flossie Ierardi, Mark Bottos and Mary K. O'Brien -- Rediscover, reclaim and rejoice: the Sesame approach of drama and movement therapy with exploited girls in India / Sonali Senroy and Priyadarshini Senroy -- A safe distance: an intermodal approach to creating a country retreat for city girls who have been abused / Julie Lacy, Reina Michaelson and Carla van Laar.
This title presents a diverse collection of creative arts therapies approaches that meet the ever-increasing mental health needs of inner city children, whose exposure to air and noise pollution, and relatively high instances of violence, crime and family pressures, is increasingly paving the way for depression and behavioural disorders.