A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.
Written by contributors working at the cutting edge of delivering effective therapeutic interventions, this innovative ......
The Connected Therapist's Guide to Low-Cost Activities for Working with
In using this resourceful guide, therapists can develop a comprehensive understanding of how trauma impacts their young clients brains and sensory systems. Filled with therapeutic strategies and activities tailored to specific regions of the brain, professionals will be able to optimise brain rehabilitation and improve sensory processing ......
What Global OT Practice Can Teach Us About Innovation, Culture, and Comm
This is an enlightening anthology of 16 interviews conducted with occupational therapists from around the world who share their personal reflections and challenges in occupational therapy within different cultural and political contexts. It encourages global cultural awareness and nurtures a sense of connection with practitioners around the world.
A handy pocket guide to help Occupational Therapy students prepare for their practice placements. Placements can be daunting to the unprepared. This pocket guide is designed to make occupational therapy placements more enjoyable and less stressful and to help students get the most out of their practice learning experience.
Creative Tools for Therapeutic Practice and Supervision
This practical book for arts therapists and other mental health professionals contains a wide variety of art activities. Each one focuses on a different aspect of positive psychology, such as creativity, flow, character strengths, self-awareness and wellbeing. It also includes background theory, case examples, and post-activity guiding questions.
This book addresses a key need for child therapists - how to actively involve parents in treatment and give them tools to support their childs healthy development.
An illustrated booklet for parents (and those who support them) to help navigate their way through the firs three, vital years of their child's emotional development and lay the foundations for a stable core self that will take them through the rest of their lives.
A self-study guide for health and social care staff on trauma informed care of people with intellectual disabilities. It brings together key theories of psychotherapy and disability so that support staff can understand and identify stages of emotional development and plan interventions for the benefit of the person with intellectual disabilities.
Poetry is increasingly used in therapy, and it already occupies a central place in expressive arts therapies. This book is the first to explicitly combine theory and practice from the field of expressive arts with poetry and poetics.
