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The ArtsMarch 2020Performing care
New perspectives on socially engaged performance
by Amanda Stuart Fisher, James Thompson
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The ArtsMarch 2020Performing care
New perspectives on socially engaged performance
by Amanda Stuart Fisher, James Thompson
This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of care, challenging existing debates in this area by re-thinking the caring encounter as a performed, embodied experience and interrogating the boundaries between care practice and performance. Through an examination of a wide range of different care performances drawn from interdisciplinary and international settings, the book interrogates how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring, careless or careful, and correlatively how care can be conceptualised as artful, aesthetic, authentic or even 'fake' and 'staged'.
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The ArtsJuly 2022Performing care
New perspectives on socially engaged performance
by Amanda Stuart Fisher, James Thompson
This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of care, challenging existing debates in this area by re-thinking the caring encounter as a performed, embodied experience and interrogating the boundaries between care practice and performance. Through an examination of a wide range of different care performances drawn from interdisciplinary and international settings, the book interrogates how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring, careless or careful, and correlatively how care can be conceptualised as artful, aesthetic, authentic or even 'fake' and 'staged'.
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MedicineMay 2024Creative approaches to wellbeing
The pandemic and beyond
by Victoria Tischler, Karen Gray
A compilation of case studies illustrating the use of arts, culture and other community assets individuals and communities used to cope and develop resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic, demonstrating valuable lessons that might help us develop resilience in similar future crises.
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Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)February 2021Circle of Life
by Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou
This captivating colouring book will take you on a journey through our fascinating natural world. Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou's beautiful illustrations, many of which explore circular designs, celebrate the rhythms of our wild planet.
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Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)Inside Art
Crime, Punishment and Creative Energies
by Mary Brown (Author)
Based on conversations with artists - including people in prison or who were once imprisoned, this book charts the importance of creative activity as an instrument of personal change.
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MedicineApril 2015Adventure Tales
A Framework for Therapeutic Story Creation by and for Children
by Barr Kazer
Almost all troubled children thrive in storytelling. However experience has shown that children with Aspergers’ or autistic tendencies neither enjoy nor benefit from storytelling, they need a different approach; also children in crisis are better helped in one to one counselling. The Adventure Tales Resource is a practical guide to providing a weekly therapeutic storytelling group for troubled children aged 7-12 years, through one school term. The guide provides a succinct, step by step method of setting up, organising and running a storytelling group. It facilitates the production of the finished story for the group. It offers ways of how to be therapeutically, with the group. It includes practical administration support with photocopiable proforma such as letters to parents and evaluation sheets. This practical resource will help:• develop inter and intra relationships • enhance emotional literacy • resolve emotional issues • improve ability to think round own problems • improve tolerance of difference • increase trust in others • stimulate the imagination • increase self esteem • increase the ability to express views clearly and calmly • increase confidence in literacy skills, especially reading.
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Occupational therapySeptember 2014Recovery through Activity
by Sue Parkinson
The Recovery through Activity handbook is underpinned by the conceptual framework of the Model of Human Occupation. The introduction of this treatment handbook will provide an invaluable tool to practitioners and also create a platform for research. KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS INCLUDE: enables service users to recognise the long-term benefits of occupational participation by exploring the value of a range of activities. provides occupational therapists with a valuable tool to support the use of their core skills provides comprehensive evidence regarding the value of activity along with a wealth of resources to support implementation of an occupation-focused intervention help to refocus the practice of occupational therapy in mental health on occupation - supporting occupational therapy practitioners to engage in their core skills and enhancing the quality of service user care in mental health. This handbook will be of interest to occupational therapy practitioners and students as well as occupational therapy managers who are seeking to introduce time-limited, occupation-focused interventions into clinical pathways.
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Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)November 1997Draw On Your Emotions
by Margot Sunderland
This manual contains a series of structured "easy to do" picture exercises to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions in everyday life. Providing a series of photocopiable illustrations, it is a source of effective ready made material. Contains exercises and pictures specifically designed to ease the process of talking about feelings. Helps to promote a new clarity of thought as a first step towards positive action and bring seemingly huge, unmanageble and insoluble problems into a new perspecitve. Offers opportunities to rehearse other ways of functioning by trying out alternatives safely on paper in exercises that can be adapted for any age range and ability. A superb non-verbal counselling tool. Dr Margot Sunderland is Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health London, Honorary Visiting Fellow at London Metropolitan University and Integrative Child Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer with over two decades of experience in working with adults, teenagers and children. She is a First Prize award winning author, with 20 books in child mental health, published in nineteen countries.
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Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)June 2008Draw on Your Relationships
by Nicky Hancock, Margot Sunderland
Written by the award-winning author of Draw on Your Emotions, this book is designed for professionals to help people explore, communicate and learn more about themselves in light of their relationships. Many children, teenagers and adults never sit down to reflect on their relationships. As a result, they can endlessly repeat destructive relationship patterns, pick people who are bad for them, stay in deadening relationships, or destroy the lovely relationships they do have. Consequently, this book is designed to empower people to improve their quality of life by improving their relationship life.
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Occupational therapySeptember 1997Group Activities for Personal Development
by Sheena Duboust, Pamela Knight
A vital collection of workshops for groups developing social skills and exploring relationships. Aimed at professionals working with groups that are developing social skills and exploring relationships, this photocopiable handbook is a vital collection of workshops covering specific themes. Each theme is clearly divided into warm-ups, main exercises and closures. Intended to help professionals save on preparation time, the organisation and format of this book reflects its highly practical content.
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MedicineNovember 2005Eating & Drinking Difficulties in Children
A Guide for Practitioners
by April Winstock
Clearly illustrated, this is the ultimate practical handbook for all professionals working with children with eating and drinking difficulties, and an essential guide for all students studying this area of therapy. Covering the complex issues involved in the field of eating and drinking difficulties in children, this text: Examines the theoretical background while maintaining a clear focus on its practical application Provides essential information on all the relevant issues; Contains an invaluable range of photocopiable material for each chapter, which can be given to families and professional colleagues Provides a range of appendices with details of useful resources including a reference list and suppliers of equipment.
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Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)March 2008The Feelings Artbook
by Ruby Radburn
48 activities that explore emotional issues through drawing. For many children, drawing is a more pleasurable activity than writing. These activities and worksheets use drawing as the basis for exploring emotional issues and promoting children's emotional literacy. The book is intended for anyone who spends time with children, including teachers, learning mentors, therapists and parents. It is organised in three sections: Self-esteem - The activities in this section promote a positive sense of self by helping children to identify their strengths and preferences, their achievements and aspirations, the people and things they value. Many of the activities creatively explore a sense of personal power, something that children of this age have little opportunity to do. Understanding this concept helps them to take responsibility for their emotions and actions. Emotions - In this section children identify and define a wide range of feelings, expanding their emotional vocabulary beyond the basic 'happy', 'sad' or 'angry'. More complex feelings such as jealousy, pride and embarrassment are examined, and children are encouraged to define these feelings in both words and drawings, and through personal experience. When children understand what causes strong emotional reactions, they are better able to manage their feelings in an appropriate way. Empathy - These activities encourage children to consider other people's feelings and preferences, and to think from different perspectives. Some offer specific viewpoints to focus on such as an old lady, a baby or an alien. Others promote empathetic skills such as listening. For each activity the instructions include a clearly stated aim, a suggested outline of how to conduct the activity and two optional follow-on ideas. Flexibility is central to the design: the activities can stand alone or be incorporated into an emotional literacy programme. The finished drawings can be displayed or kept by children as a visual reminder of their learning.
