Using art-based activities to work on emotions - A collection of practical activities for counsellors, psychotherapists and educators - E-book - ePub

"Using Art-based Activities to Work on Emotions: Collection of practical activities for counsellors, psychotherapists and educators" contains 30 practical activities using artistic material to reach a certain emotional result. Its content is divided in three main parts: section 1 offers technical information about the preparation and planning of the activities and about structuring the counselling or intervention sessions either with individuals or groups; section 2 represents the main body of the book and includes 30 art-therapy activities; the activities are described as they should be presented to the final client, thus offering the professionals an example on how to describe the tasks and how to present the instructions to the people they are counselling or educating; section 3 describes practices which could enhance the activities and their results and points out further useful resources for professionals who would like to expand their toolkit by including art-therapy techniques in their approach.
The book is addressed to professionals, like counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists, educators etc. working with adults or children, individuals or groups.