Family Art Therapy: Foundations of Theory and Practice

by Kerr, Christine

• ISBN13: 9780415954648
• ISBN10: 0415954649
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Family Art Therapy is designed to help the reader use clinical art therapy intervention techniques in family therapy practice. In this unique volume, Kerr and her colleagues provide an overview of the evolution of the theories and techniques from the major schools of classic family therapy. Integrated with practical clinical art therapy examples, each chapter provides both theoretical background and real applications for expressive family art therapy. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Family Art Images in Historical and Social Perspectives	p. 1
The Development of Family Therapy and Family Art Therapy	p. 25
Object Relations and Attachment Theory: Creativity of Mother and Child in the Single Parent Family	p. 65
Bowen Family Systems Theory (BEST) and Family Art Therapy	p. 95
Structural Family Art Therapy	p. 119
Experiential Family Therapy and Art Therapy	p. 151
Adlerian Family Art Therapy	p. 167
Filial Art Therapy: A Rogerian Approach	p. 181
Narrative Art Therapy Within a Multicultural Framework	p. 193
Conclusion	p. 221
About the Authors	p. 227
Index	p. 229
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