Improvisation in the performing arts: shaping or letting go?
In a museum in Istanbul, the dancer stands on a stone about one meter square, set several feet above the ground. She has very little…
Category: Arts therapies
What is Therapeutic Photography? – Audio Clip
Neil Gibson, Senior Lecturer for Social Work at Robert Gordon University, and author of Therapeutic Photography: Enhancing Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy and Resilience, discusses here the use of therapeutic…
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A Therapeutic Photography Group for Carers – Q&A with Author Neil Gibson
Neil Gibson is a social worker and Senior Lecturer at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. He runs a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course for professionals interested in…
Newly Qualified Art Therapist and Looking For Work. Is Private Practice for Me?
Under our current economic circumstances many art therapists are being forced to find alternative bases for practice and so they are necessarily orientating themselves towards…
Screen Time for Autistic Children
Jonas Torrance is a registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist and a behaviour consultant, who has worked with autistic children for over 30 years. He also facilitates…
Tales from the Music Therapy Room – Extract
Tales from the Music Therapy Room, Edited by Claire Molyneux is the result of a collaboration between New Zealand music therapists. It is an invitation to…
The Thera-Build® Recipe: A Diet of LEGO®
Alyson Thomsen gives her quirky recipe for becoming, well, her. In this blog we find out how Alyson came to become a LEGO® therapy maestro,…
Art Therapy Cards for Children: What they are and how to best use them
The author of Art Therapy Cards for Children, Elitsa Velikova introduces her Art Therapy cards and shares some ideas on how one can work with…
How art therapy can help with children’s sleep patterns
Elitsa Velikova, the author of Art Therapy Cards for Children, writes about how art therapy can help with children’s sleep patterns and shares some ‘creative’…