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The Wiley handbook of art therapy [electronic book] / edited by David E. Gussak and Marcia L. Rosal.

Contributor(s): Gussak, David [editor] | Rosal, Marcia L [editor].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Wiley handbook series: Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: online resource (xxxii, 875 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781118306598 (hardback); 9781118306567 (e-book).Subject(s): Art therapy -- Handbooks, manuals, etcDDC classification: 615.85156 Online resources: E-book
Contents:
Introduction -- Historical and theoretical frameworks -- Understanding art media in therapy -- Developmental spectrum and therapeutic considerations -- Art therapy with various populations -- Practicing art therapy in interdisciplinary settings -- Art therapy assessments -- Research models in art therapy -- Art therapy around the world -- Current and contemporary issues in art therapy.

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The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy is a collection of original, internationally diverse essays, that provides unsurpassed breadth and depth of coverage of the subject.

The most comprehensive art therapy book in the field, exploring a wide range of themes A unique collection of the current and innovative clinical, theoretical and research approaches in the field Cutting-edge in its content, the handbook includes the very latest trends in the subject, and in-depth accounts of the advances in the art therapy arena Edited by two highly renowned and respected academics in the field, with a stellar list of global contributors, including Judy Rubin, Vija Lusebrink, Selma Ciornai, Maria d' Ella and Jill Westwood Part of the Wiley Handbooks in Clinical Psychology series

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Historical and theoretical frameworks -- Understanding art media in therapy -- Developmental spectrum and therapeutic considerations -- Art therapy with various populations -- Practicing art therapy in interdisciplinary settings -- Art therapy assessments -- Research models in art therapy -- Art therapy around the world -- Current and contemporary issues in art therapy.

Electronic reproduction.: ProQuest LibCentral. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

David E. Gussak is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Art Education at Florida State University. He is the author of Art on Trial: Art Therapy in Capital Murder Cases (2013), and the co-editor and contributing author for the books Drawing Time: Art Therapy in Prisons and Other Correctional Settings (1997)and Art Education for Social Justice (2010) and has published numerous articles and chapters and has lectured widely both nationally and internationally. Professor Gussak currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Art Therapy.

Marcia L. Rosal is Professor and Director of the graduate Art Therapy Program at Florida State University. She is a past president of the American Art Therapy Association and received the Honorary Life Member award in 2011 from this organization. She has been on the editorial boards of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association , Clinical Art Therapy , and The Arts in Psychotherapy . She was the founding editor of the Journal of Art for Life and she has published numerous articles and chapters and has lectured widely both nationally and internationally.

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