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Contemporary Art Therapy with Adolescents by Shirley Riley; forewords by Gerald D. Oster and Cathy A. Malchiodi is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. The process of using art-making therapeutically, and the challenges of applying creativity in the current mental health world, are explored. Shirley Riley reviews current theories on adolescent development and therapy, and emphasizes the primary importance of relying on the youths' own narrative in the context of their social and economic backgrounds. She has found this approach preferential to following pre-designed assessment directives as a primary function of art therapy. Family, group and individual treatment are examined, as is the adolescent's response to short- and long-term treatment in residential and therapeutic school settings. The book is firmly roote

Who reads Contemporary Art Therapy with Adolescents?

Author

Shirley Riley; forewords by Gerald D. Oster and Cathy A. Malchiodi

Publisher

London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585123578

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Art, Medical

Rating

3.96 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14