This wide-ranging book on art therapy and grief provides everything an art therapist needs to feel confident in creating an effective treatment plan. It features fifteen clear-cut protocols, outlining 4-8 week curriculums for working with Complicated Grief, and explains the theory which informs the practice, including popular and evolving models such as Attachment Theory, Mindfulness, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Art Therapy Relational Neuroscience (ATR-N).
Suitable for a variety of settings and clinical populations, the book breaks through the analytical jargon of the field and provides first-person narratives of art therapists exploring their own experiences of grief and client case studies.
This book may appeal to art therapists and students. Of secondary interest to bereavement counsellors.
Introduction.
Part I.
Theory.
1. The Language of Grief: When There Are No Words. Briana MacWilliam.
2. The Origins of Attachment. Briana MacWilliam.
3. Complicated Grief. Briana MacWilliam and Dina Schapiro.
4. The Impact of Culture and Community. Briana MacWilliam, Anne Briggs, Maya R. Hormadaly and Dana Trottier.
5. Concepts in Treatment. Briana MacWilliam, Danielle Klingensmith, Lauren D. Smith, Sarah Yazdian, Melissa Meade, Julie Day, Romona Mukherjee and Karen Gibbons. Part II. Self Studies.
6. Imaginal Dialogues: Coping with Countertransference. Marisa Zarczynski.
7. Mandala Making through Crochet to Navigate Grief. Julie Day. 8. The Tree of Life: A Transpersonal Heuristic Journey. Susan Leopold.
9. Interpersonal Knots: An Art-Based Exploration of Tying and Untying. Juliana Thrall.
10. The Memory Box. Laurel Larson.
11. Phototherapy Techniques and Grief. Kateleen Foy.
12. The Shadow Box. Kimberley Bush.
Part III. Applications are Practice.
13. Vicarious Trauma: Supporting Bereavement and Self-Care Practice through Art Therapy for Healthcare Providers. Sarah Yazdian and Lauren D. Smith.
14. Can You Help Me Say Goodbye? Sibling Loss & Bereavement Support in the Healthcare Environment. Lauren D. Smith and Sarah Yazdian.
15. Mask Making and Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Homeless Young Mothers. Divya Sunil Gulati.
16. Art and Grief: Working with At-Risk Youth that Have Lost a Parent. Ariel Argueso.
17. The Women's Womb: Archetypal Imagery and Grieving Lost Self-Parts. Marie Caruso-Tersi.
18. Multimedia Approaches in Childhood Bereavement. Sarah Vollmann.
19. Exploring Attachment and Grief through Shoe-Alteration Techniques. Kelsey Dugan.
The Contributors.
This book becomes unique in character as it integrates attachment research, prolonged bereavement, trauma and art therapy methodology. Students, practitioners and teachers will find this book helpful as it offers a clear format to the synthesis of verbal and non-verbal clinical interventions. Upon completion of this book I am left with a good deal of stimulation and clinical excitement. New pathways are opened up and the reader will find a most important contribution to the mental health field.
