Art Therapy With Families In Crisis: Overcoming Resistance Through Nonverbal Expression

by Linesch,Debra Greenspoon

• ISBN13: 9780876306383
• ISBN10: 0876306385
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume describes art therapy interventions for particularly dysfunctional families and explains the connections between the process of creating art and the curative process in meeting these families' needs. The first chapter examines distressed family systems, and psychotherapy in relation to the uses of art therapy. Subsequent chapters present a crisis intervention model for family art therapy and demonstrate the applications of this model with single-parent families, families affcetd by alcoholism or sexual abuse, and families of political refugees and disaster victims. More than 70 samples of the art produced by these families are reproduced and analyzed.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Asking the Questions
Family Systems and the Creative Process: The First Look	p. 3
Searching for Answers
A Crisis Intervention Model for Family Art Therapy	p. 23
Family Art Therapy with Single-Parent Families	p. 46
Art Therapy with Alcoholic Families	p. 69
Family Art Therapy and Sexual Abuse	p. 104
Family Art Therapy with Political Refugees	p. 128
Formulating Answers
Family Systems and the Creative Process: The Second Look	p. 155
Index	p. 161
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