Drawing together contributions from around the world, this text considers the questions of identity and background, and how they can inform and alter the practice of arts therapy. Part One contains examples of working with refugees and migrants from a variety of backgrounds, highlighting some of the problems that are associated with working with clients from a different cultural context. Part Two explores the practice of arts therapists who are themselves refugees or migrants, and the perspective that they can bring to multicultural practice. In the final section, the contributors discuss training in the arts therapies, and how best to construct a framework for working with multicultural and often traumatised clients.
Foreword, Dick Blackwell, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Introduction, Ditty Dokter, University of Hertfordshire. 1. In limbo: movement psychotherapy with refugees and asylum seekers, Karen Callaghan, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. 2. Art therapy with asylum seekers . . . humanitarian relief, Truus Wertheim-Cahen, private practice. 3. Mourning rituals in non-verbal therapy with traumatised refugees, M. Zwart and L. Nieuwenhuis, 'De Vonk'. 4. One step beyond: music therapy with traumatised refugees in a psychiatric clinic, Jaap Orth and Jack Verburgt, Phoenix project. 5. Between theatre and therapy: experiences of a dramatherapist in Mozambique, Helen Scott-Danter, private consultant. 6. A question of translation: Transporting art therapy to Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Debra Kalmanowitz, Grafton Primary School and Bobby Lloyd, Parkside Clinic. 7. Library project: 'Step by step to recovery'. Creative sessions with children in war and post-wartime, Professor Marina Danev, City Library, Zagreb. 8. Being a migrant, working with migrants: issues of identity and embodiment, Ditty Dokter, University of Hertfordshire. 9. Inheritance: Jewish identity, art psychotherapy workshops and the legacy of the Holocaust, Dr Joy Schaverien, analytical art psychotherapist, private practice. Art therapy, race and culture: reaching for the peak, Caroline Case, private practice. 10. Dance movement therapy with South Asian women in Britain, Anusha Subramanyam, Academy of Indian Dance. 11. Intercultural dance, theatre and music as facilitators in creative arts therapy: a metacognitive experience, Terence Brathwaite, University of Birmingham. 12. Remembering: Intercultural issues in integrative arts psychotherapy, Jocelyn James, Central School of Speech and Drama. 13. The use of Israeli folksongs in dealing with women's bereavement and loss in music therapy, Dorit Amir, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. 14. Reaching for the peak: art therapy in Hong Kong, Caroline Case 15. On being a temporary migrant to Australia. Reflections on art therapy education and practice. Andrea Gilroy. Conclusion, Ditty Dokter. Inde
I wholeheartedly recommend this book to those who are students and practitioners of all helping services, particularly the arts therapies and all forms of non-verbal therapy. It enables us to reach beyond the boundaries of our lives and appreciate the many ways we may extend the boundaries of our cultural assumptions.
