Handbook of inquiry in the arts therapies : one river, many currents / edited by Helen Payne ; foreword by John Rowan.

Other author Payne, Helen, 1951- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Bristol, Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1993.
Descriptionxii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction to inquiry in the arts therapies / Helen Payne -- Why don't arts therapists do research / David Edwards -- From practitioner to researcher: research as a learning process / Helen payne -- Active witness: the acquisition of meaning in dramatherapy / Phil Jones -- Research into dramatherapy theory and practice: some implications for training / Lucilia Valente and David Fontana -- On 'being the thing I am': an inquiry into the therapeutic aspects of Shakespeare's As you like it / Brenda Meldrum -- Dramatherapy across Europe, cultural contradictions: an inquiry into the parameters of British training and practice / Ditty Dokter -- Retrospective review of pictures: data for research in art therapy / Joy Schaverien -- Art of science with clients: beginning collaborative inquiry in process work, art therapy and acute states / Sheila McClelland, Ann and Pat -- Research as an act of creation / Bonnie Meekums -- Movement assessment in schizophrenia / Laurence Higgins -- Emerging methodology in dance movement therapy research: a way forward / Bonnie Meekums and Helen Payne -- Feeling of sound: the effect of music and low frequency sound in reducing anxiety and challenging behaviour in clients with learning difficulties / Tony Wigram -- Research in music therapy with sexually abused clients / Penny Rogers -- Permission to play: the search for self through music therapy research with children presenting with communication difficulties / Alison Levinge.
Abstract The first book to embrace all the arts therapies, this is a ground-breaking examination of the effects of arts therapies interventions in health, education, community and social services settings. It is written by specialists in the various areas of arts therapy, addressing themes which are relevant to all arts therapists exploring the relationship between research and practice. The contributors examine different approaches and methodologies used in relation to different patient/client groups and settings.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 93239314
ISBN1853021539

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk RC489.A72 H36 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold