Child and Youth Care

Shows mental health professionals how to implement play therapy with adolescents and adults and how to conceptualize client struggles using a wealth of creative approaches. Follows seven-stage process for professionals to address clients' core needs and establish an empathic therapeutic relationship. Looking at stages of play therapy and explores a range of expressive arts (art, drama, dance, writing and sand play), the key materials needed, and the additional aspects of play therapy including resistance, spirituality and self-care.

This book helps to teach teens to manage emotions and develop relationships by tracking their progress using Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) techniques. Contains activities to help regulate strong emotional responses which can lead to impulsivity, unstable relationships, low self-image and reactive emotions. Includes vignettes and activity sheets. Includes an overview of the four modules of DBT: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Therapeutic photography is an increasingly popular approach for increasing self-esteem, resilience and self-reliance in a wide range of people, including those with dementia, autism or mental health problems, school children and offenders. This book provides practical guidance on delivering therapeutic photography interventions and introduces the theory underpinning the approach.

This book synthesizes the breadth of research on trauma and the brain and presents an innovative framework for treating trauma through the expressive arts. It describes powerful ways to tap into deeply felt bodily and sensory experiences as a foundation for safely exploring emotions, memories, and personal narratives. Provides examples of the use of movement, sound, play, art, and drama with children and adults.