Art in Action: Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change (Arts Therapies)
by Ellen G. Levine
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The book's contributors explore the transformative power of the arts therapies in areas stricken by conflict and discuss how and why expressive arts works. They look at the ways it can be used to engage community consciousness and improve social conditions whilst taking into account the issues that arise within different contexts and populations.Tags
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Ellen G. Levine is Co-Founder and Faculty member of ISIS Canada, a three-year training program in expressive arts therapy. She is a Senior Staff Social Worker at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre for Children's Mental Health in Toronto and a professor and core Faculty Member of the European Graduate School, Switzerland. She has been working with show more children and parents in a clinical setting with the arts and play for over 30 years and is co-author of Art in Action: Expressive Arts Therapy both published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. show less
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- Nonfiction, Art & Design, Sociology
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- 616.89 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Diseases, Allergies, Skin Conditions Nervous Disorders: Autism, Anorexia, OCD Mental disorders: bi-polar/schizophrenia
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- RC489 .A72 .A76 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Psychiatry Therapeutics. Psychotherapy
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