Healing Arts Therapies and Person-Centred Dementia Care

Anthea Innes, Karen Hatfield

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• ISBN:
  9781846423024
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Diseases & Allergies

Offering practical advice for arts therapists and health care professionals, this book emphasizes the importance of putting the individual before the illness to provide holistic, person-centred support for people with dementia.

The contributors are all practising healing arts therapists who show how music, dance and the visual arts can be used in partnership with person-centred care to promote improved memory, reduced anxiety, increased self-esteem, better communication and successful group interaction. They use case studies to demonstrate the ways in which therapists can encourage engagement of those with dementia with sound, touch, movement and visual forms, making this a positive and practical book for all those working to provide person-centred dementia

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Other Books
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: From the Heart into Art: Person-Centered Art Therapy
• Chapter 2: Dance/Movement Therapy: Partners in Personhood
• Chapter 3: Principles of Person-Centered Care in Music Therapy
• Conclusion
• List of contributors
• References
• Subject Index
• Author Index