Art Activities for Children and Young People in Need

Art-based activities can develop presilience and self-esteem, enabling children in need to cope better with ongoing stress and loss. "Holistic Arts Activities for Children and Young People" offers interventions and exercises drawn from practice and research, for practitioners to use as a basis for their own arts-based groups or one-to-one sessions. Holistic arts activities facilitate a spiritually sensitive approach. Mindfulness-based exercises underpin the approach, and include guided meditations in which a group imagines that they are clouds, or draw feelings and emotions while listening to music, to encourage awareness of the senses. The activities help the group to relax and become more self-aware, encourage an exploration of feelings, values and understanding and are beneficial for children not ready to embrace traditional therapies or counselling. This book is accessible and suitable for helping, health and education practitioners and students from a variety of disciplines, such as social work, psychology and counselling.

ISBN 1849050015   Pages 176 ISBN13 9781849050012 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 249 Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers   Published in London Imprint Jessica Kingsley Publishers   Height (mm) 234 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 156 Publication date 15 Mar 2010   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 362.71   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		The usefulness of holistic arts-based methods		23
2		Spirituality and spiritually sensitive helping		55
3		Mindfulness-based practice		87
4		Building imagination, self-awareness and strengths		127
5		Working in groups		157
		Afterword		189
		Subject index		190
		Author index		192

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