ABSTRACT
Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression is a comprehensive compilation of expert knowledge on arts therapies’ potential in successfully addressing depression. The book identifies ways of addressing the condition in therapy sessions, shares experience of tools and approaches which seem to work best and guides towards a conscious and confident evidence-based practice.
Including contributions from international experts in the field of arts therapies, the book presents some of the most recent, high-profile and methodologically diverse research, whether in the form of clinical trials, surveys or case studies. The three sections of this volume correspond to particular life stages and explore major topics in arts therapies practice and the nature of depression in children, adults and in later life. Individual chapters within the three sections represent all four arts therapies disciplines. The book hopes to improve existing arts therapies practice and research, by encouraging researchers to use creativity in designing meaningful research projects and empowering practitioners to use evidence creatively for the benefit of their clients and the discipline.
Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression is an essential resource for arts therapies researchers, practitioners and arts therapists in training. It should also be of interest to other health researchers and health professionals, particularly those who work with clients experiencing depression and in multidisciplinary teams.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction
part I|74 pages
Arts therapies with children and adolescents experiencing depression
chapter 1|17 pages
Music therapy and prevention of depression in primary-aged children
part II|104 pages
Arts therapies with adults experiencing depression
chapter 6|18 pages
An essence of the therapeutic process in an art therapy group for adults experiencing depression
chapter 7|16 pages
Embodied treatment of depression
chapter 8|18 pages
Reversing a sub-cultural norm
chapter 9|18 pages
Music therapy clinical practice and research for people with depression
chapter 10|17 pages
Phototherapy in the treatment of patients with depression in a clinical setting
part III|66 pages
Arts therapies with those experiencing depression in later life