Art-based Group Therapy: Theory and Practice - Softcover

Bruce L. Moon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0398091153 ISBN 13: 9780398091156

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

In this second edition Moon provides essential principles regarding art-based therapy groups.  The book is intended for art therapy students and practitioners, offering philosophic and practical information related to the use of art in a host of group therapy contexts.

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Review:

In his second edition of Art-Based Group Therapy, Bruce Moon paints a vivid picture of an effective group leader while taking his readers on a thought provoking journey through his 30-plus years of successes and struggles in leading art-based therapy groups.

With the gentle guidance of a seasoned therapist, Moon invites readers to join him in examining the invaluable characteristics of the art-based therapy group.

Moon notes early on that this book is not meant to provide particular art tasks or cook-book descriptions of group directives, and he indeed provides so much more.

With a tone of empowerment that permeates each chapter, Moon urges group leaders to reconsider the traditional beliefs that talking is necessary in order for growth to occur and that therapists should maintain a detached, opaque demeanor in order to help their clients.

I highly recommend this book to art therapists, art-based group leaders, as well as faculty and students in graduate art therapy programs. Not only is Art-Based Group Therapy well written, easy to follow and visually stimulating, it is written the way a good class should be taught by providing stimuli that appeal to different types of learners and reinforcing ideas through visual images, stories and practical applications. --Erin Blair-Journal of Applied Arts & Health, May 2017

About this edition

• Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0398091153
• ISBN 13: 9780398091156
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 234