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Assessment and outcomes in the arts therapies : a person-centred approach / edited by Caroline Miller.

Contributor(s): Miller, Caroline, 1944-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014Description: 246 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849054140; 1849054142.Subject(s): Art therapy -- Evaluation | Art therapy -- Case studies | Outcome assessment (Medical care)DDC classification: 616.891656

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

There is increasing pressure on therapists to provide details of structured assessments and to report therapy outcomes to funders, employers and co-workers. This edited volume provides a series of case studies, with varied client groups, giving arts therapists an accessible introduction to assessment and outcome measures that can be easily incorporated into their regular practice.

The book provides demonstrations, within a practice-based evidence framework, of how measures can be tailored to the individual client's needs. The case studies show assessment and outcome models for music therapy, art therapy and dramatherapy used with a range of client groups including people with intellectual disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's Disease and those suffering from depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or coping with bereavement.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Caroline Miller is a dramatherapist and psychologist in private practice. She completed her training as a dramatherapist in 1991, from the training programme in York, accredited by the University of Leeds, UK. She then relocated to New Zealand where she worked in a number of roles including school counsellor, manager of mental health services for children and adolescents, and dramatherapist in special needs education. In 2001 she was the inaugural co-director of the only training programme for arts therapists in New Zealand.

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