Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

As arts therapists are increasingly working in schools, there is growing interest in identifying applicable therapeutic approaches and expanding on relevant research evidence. This book outlines the potential uses of music, art, drama and dance movement therapies in educational settings, and the contribution they have to make to the emotional and social development of children and adolescents.

Drawing on international evidence, the book outlines a wide range of innovative applications of arts therapies across a range of settings, including mainstream classrooms, special schools and student support units. Examples of subjects covered include solution-focused brief dramatherapy groupwork in mainstream education, art therapy for children with specific learning difficulties who have experienced trauma and music therapy in special education. Particular emphasis is placed upon collaborative work, whether it be between arts therapists from different disciplines, arts therapists and teaching staff or arts therapists and researchers.

Arts Therapies in Schools will be of great interest to arts therapists, and will also be useful to others who want to know about the potential of arts therapies in the classroom, including teachers and other education professionals, health professionals, educational psychologists, school counsellors and policy makers.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 9)
• Part I Mainstream Schools (p. 25)
• 1 From the Dance Studio to the Classroom: Translating the Clinical Dance Movement Psychotherapy Experience into a School Context (p. 27)
• 2 PEACE through Dance/Movement Therapy: The Development and Evaluation of a Violence Prevention Programme in an Elementary School (p. 43)
• 3 Finding a Way Out of the Labyrinth through Dance Movement Psychotherapy: Collaborative Work in a Mental Health Promotion Programme for Secondary Schools (p. 59)
• 4 Making Space Inside: The Experience of Dramatherapy within a School-based Student Support Unit (p. 85)
• 5 Solution-focused Brief Dramatherapy Group Work: Working with Children in Mainstream Education in Sri Lanka (p. 97)
• 6 The Searching Drama of Disaffection: Dramatherapy Groups in a Whole-school Context (p. 114)
• 7 Educational Music Therapy: Theoretical Foundations Explored in Time-limited Group Work Projects with Children (p. 129)
• 8 Art Therapy in Education for Children with Specific Learning Difficulties Who Have Experienced Stress and/or Trauma (p. 145)
• 9 'Give Me Some Paper': The Role of Image-making as a Stabilizing Force for a Child in Transition (p. 161)
• Part II Special Schools (p. 177)
• 10 I Am Here to Move and Dance with You': Dance Movement Therapy with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (p. 179)
• 11 Dramatherapy, Autism and Relationship-building: A Case Study (p. 197)
• 12 The Capacity for Imagination: Implications for Working with Children with Autism in Art Therapy (p. 217)
• 13 Music Therapy for Children with Autism in an Educational Context (p. 231)
• 14 Unmasking Hidden Resources: Communication in Children with Severe Developmental Disabilities in Music Therapy (p. 243)
• 15 Facing the Challenge: A Music Therapy Investigation in the Evidence-based Framework (p. 259)
• Summary and conclusions (p. 271)
• The contributors (p. 280)
• Index (p. 284)

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