Product Description

This book shows a collection of games, practical exercises and techniques to be used by people who work with clients who have a wide range of disorders. They are specifically designed to enhance an aspect of the client's personality.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90356 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Review
"From first edition "An excellent, stimulating account by an experienced art therapist of how and with what result this approach may be used in groups." - British Journal of Psychiatry"

From the Back Cover
This book presents a collection of practical exercises, games, structures and techniques for use by therapists, teachers and other groupwork leaders working in schools, hospitals and day centres. They include games suitable for a wide range of clients, such as those intended to enhance self-perception and those appropriate for particular groups, such as people with memory or attention problems. Many of the games and exercises go beyond the traditional realm of `art therapy' and link up with other creative therapies and forms of groupwork.

Customer Reviews

As illuminating on groupwork as on art therapy
Marian Liebmann observes (in the preface to this second edition) that, when the first edition was published in 1986, it was only the second book on art therapy to be published in the UK. Now there are numerous books on art therapy and on group work. A few things have changed over the last couple of decades. First is the ever-changing language and terminology in use in health and social care. The author has completely overhauled this in the hope of achieving a less stigmatising view of clients. Second, and linked with this, is the rise in the importance of cultural sensitivity which has led to the inclusion of a new section on race, culture, diversity and an equal opportunity perspective. Third, is the growing emphasis on recording, evaluation and evidence-based practice. All of these changes make this new edition as relevant a contribution to the literature now as was that first trailblazing edition nearly twenty years ago.

The author's style is clear and eminently useful. No doubt this comes from having been a teacher, community worker, probation officer and art therapist and having written and edited seven books on art therapy and mediation. Marian Liebmann is a writer who can communicate in words the essence of a therapy based on visual processes.

Art Therapy for Groups is as illuminating on group work as it is on art therapy. For a handbook it is delightfully non-prescriptive, offering 'some definitions', describing 'some benefits' of art therapy. There are numerous examples of groups, and starting points for specific client groups. Of most practical help are the no less than 389 themed exercises. With an excellent resources section to finish off, this is a veritable cornucopia of ideas for anyone using art therapy, with some invaluable guidance on group work generally.