"Schema-Focused Working Methods For Arts And Body-Based Therapies | Mental Health

This book introduces schema-focused working methods for arts and body-based therapies offering therapists practice-based tools to help their clients strengthen healthy patterns self-management and well-being on their path to recovery. Containing 158 schema-focused working methods for different arts and body-based therapies such as art therapy dance therapy drama therapy music therapy and body-based or psychomotor therapy this book offers new ideas and tools for therapists to strengthen their client’s adaptive schema modes: the Healthy Adult and the Happy Child. By linking arts and body-based therapies to schema-focused therapy and positive psychology the goal is to strengthen the client’s healthy patterns in emotion regulation and establish a healthier well-being. The theoretical framework in the introduction and the scientific evidence for arts and psychomotor therapies combined with the practice-based examples allow for a text that is broad enough for graduate creative therapy programs and specific enough to serve as a shelf reference for those in practice.|Schema-Focused Working Methods for Arts and Body-Based Therapies | Mental Health