Art therapy and learning disabilities : "don't guess my happiness" / edited by Stephanie Bull and Kevin O'Farrell.
Contributor(s): Bull, Stephanie [editor]
| O'Farrell, Kevin [editor].
Material type: 
BookPublisher: Abingdon : Routledge, 2012Description: xviii, 172 pages, [8] pages of colour plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415583244 (paperback); 0415583241 (paperback); 9780415583237 (hardback); 0415583233 (hardback).Subject(s): Learning disabled -- Rehabilitation | Art therapy | Clinical psychologyDDC classification: 616.891656 Summary: "In this book Stephanie Bull and Kevin O’Farrell bring together practising clinicians who provide an insight into using contemporary art therapy with people with learning disabilities. The authentic voice of people who have learning disabilities is central to the book, and case examples, snapshots of thoughts, dialogue, photographs and artwork are included to ensure that the subjects' voices are heard. The book covers: having a learning disability, loss and bereavement, attachment and separation, infantilisation, fear, powerlessness, self and identity. This accessible and thought-provoking book is essential reading for anyone involved with people with learning disabilities including art therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors, students and carers" - back cover.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this book Stephanie Bull and Kevin O'Farrell bring together practising clinicians who provide an insight into using contemporary art therapy with people with learning disabilities. The authentic voice of people who have learning disabilities is central to the book, and case examples, snapshots of thoughts, dialogue, photographs and artwork are included to ensure that the subjects' voices are heard.
The book covers:
having a learning disability loss and bereavement attachment and separation infantilisation fear powerlessness self and identity.This accessible and thought-provoking book is essential reading for anyone involved with people with learning disabilities including art therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors, students and carers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"In this book Stephanie Bull and Kevin O’Farrell bring together practising clinicians who provide an insight into using contemporary art therapy with people with learning disabilities. The authentic voice of people who have learning disabilities is central to the book, and case examples, snapshots of thoughts, dialogue, photographs and artwork are included to ensure that the subjects' voices are heard. The book covers: having a learning disability, loss and bereavement, attachment and separation, infantilisation, fear, powerlessness, self and identity. This accessible and thought-provoking book is essential reading for anyone involved with people with learning disabilities including art therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors, students and carers" - back cover.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of illustrations (p. ix)
- List of contributors (p. xi)
- Foreword (p. xv)
- Acknowledgements (p. xix)
- 'Don't guess my happiness!' (p. 1)
- Introduction: learning disabilities, art therapy and the common themes (p. 3)
- 1 Personalisation and a new landscape for learning disability services (p. 18)
- Talking about learning disability services (p. 35)
- Part I Having a learning disability (p. 37)
- 2 Having a learning disability: the question of what to say and how to say it (p. 39)
- Part II Loss (p. 53)
- Bereavement and learning disabilities: a theoretical overview (p. 55)
- 3 Shaping loss (p. 58)
- Talking about loss (p. 74)
- 4 Leila's shunt: 'If I did not have the shunt in my head I would have been OK' (p. 75)
- Talking about ending (p. 83)
- Part III Attachment and separation (p. 85)
- 5 Skating in the dark (p. 87)
- Part IV Infantilisation (p. 105)
- 6 Stuck in childhood? (p. 107)
- Part V Fear (p. 117)
- Talking about fear and anxiety (p. 119)
- 7 'The long fingers of fear' (p. 120)
- Part VI Powerlessness (p. 137)
- 8 'It makes me jump when I fall over' (p. 139)
- Part VII Self and identity (p. 153)
- 9 'The Beast can scream' (p. 155)
- Talking about taking photographs (p. 164)
- Conclusion (p. 165)
- Index (p. 169)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Stephanie Bull has worked as an art therapist with adults with learning disabilities since 1994.Kevin O'Farrell has worked in social services with adults with learning disabilities for several years. Since January 2001, he has been employed as an art therapist by by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust in the New Forest Community Team.