Art Psychotherapy and Innovation: New Territories, Techniques and Technologies

By: Debra Kalmanowitz and Natalie Carlton and Helen Hawthorne and Erin Partridge and Nick Barnes and Alex Burr and Ella Bryant and Neil Winter and Natalia Higginson and Tsun-wei Lily Hsu and Wei-Wen Chan and Chia-Yu Liu and Trupti Magecha and Anastasia Ostrowski and Hae Won Park and Cynthia Breazeal and Daisy Rubinstein and Megan Tjasink and Poppy Stevens and Mira Yoon and Daphna Arbell Kehila and Hwee Hwee Loo and Sara Powell and Natalia Carlier Gomez and Abby Dougherty

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Synopsis: Art Psychotherapy and Innovation captures the range of activity at the vanguard of practice and research in the field.Reflecting the sector's increasing focus on ways of fostering psychological health, wellbeing and social engagement in a wider context, it examines how to adapt to an increasing demand for therapeutic interventions worldwide. This includes collaboration with arts and health practitioners to ensure evidence-based practice with safe and ethical therapeutic boundaries and which draws on art psychotherapists' intensive clinical training.Tethered to the wider context for innovation in art psychotherapy through theoretical discussion, this edited collection presents case studies of innovative work in relation to new territories (client groups and locations), new techniques in approaches to practice, and engagement with contemporary technologies and cross-disciplinary working.