Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations

Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations offers an in-depth insight into cross-modality and transdisciplinary practice in the arts therapies. Including contributions from drama, music, dance movement and art therapists, as well as professionals from related disciplines, it vividly demonstrates how the alchemy of these collaborations produces innovative interventions and new approaches to working with clients.

Compelling examples of collaborative practice cover a variety of client groups, ranging from Syrian refugee children and women with eating disorders, to homeless war veterans and sex offenders. Together, the authors make the case for the effectiveness of cross-modal and transdisciplinary approaches when working with otherwise hard-to-reach and complex populations.

This book is a guide to good practice and an invaluable resource for both experienced arts therapists and those new to the field. It will also be of benefit to healthcare and education professionals, arts practitioners, and anyone with an interest in the subject.

Tasha Colbert PG(dip), RDMP, UKCP is a registered dance movement psychotherapist who has practiced for over fifteen years with a variety of client groups in the NHS, education and private practice. She lectures on dance movement psychotherapy programmes in the UK and internationally, and facilitates various continued professional development (CPD) trainings. She is an experienced clinical supervisor and psychotherapist with a private practice in West London.

Cornelia Bent MA, HCPC, BAMT is a UK registered music therapist who has worked for over ten years with a wide range of client groups in a variety of settings, including the NHS, education and charity sector. Within her current clinical practice in adult mental health, she often collaborates with other arts psychotherapists, contributes clinically to music therapy research trials and presents at conferences internationally.