Contemporary art therapy with adolescents - Riley, Shirley (J. Kingsley, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and indexes
Foreword / Gerald D. Oster -- Foreword / Cathy A. Malchiodi -- 1. Integrating Developmental Theories with Art Expressions -- 2. Adolescent Group Treatment -- 3. Adolescence Depression, and the Impact of Societal Issues -- 4. Severely Damaged Adolescents in Residential and Therapeutic School Settings -- 5. Adolescents and Their Families -- 6. How Therapists Get Tangled Up in Adolescent Treatment -- 7. Short-Term, Solution Focused, Art Therapy Treatment -- App. Social Constructionism: The Narrative Approach and Clinical Art Therapy
"Contemporary Art Therapy with Adolescents offers practical and imaginative solutions to the multifaceted challenges that clinicians face when treating young people. The author fuses the contemporary theories of clinical treatment with the creative processes of art therapy to arrive at a synthesis which yields successful outcomes when working with adolescents. Clinicians of allied disciplines, particularly art therapists, will find practical suggestions for using imagery to enrich their relationships with teenaged clients."--Jacket