Creative Arts Therapies and Clients with Eating Disorders

Annie Heiderscheit

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9780857006950
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

Drawing on the expertise of leading creative arts therapists from around the world, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the role of the creative arts in the treatment of clients with eating disorders (EDs).

The book explores how art, dance and movement, drama, music, and poetry therapies have fostered insights, growth, and recovery for patients across ED diagnoses (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and compulsive overeating disorder), and comorbid diagnoses. It illustrates how each creative arts modality is implemented in the ED treatment process and covers a variety of treatment levels (residential, inpatient, intensive outpatient and outpatient). Each chapter is enriched with case illustrations to provide a greater depth of understanding of how the methods are used in clinical practice.

This book is an incomparable overview of the value and diverse uses of the creative arts in the treatment of EDs, and it will be of interest to all arts therapists, psychodrama therapists, family therapists, as well as students of these disciplines.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• of related interest
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Introduction to the Use of the Creative Arts Therapies in Eating Disorder Treatment
• 2. Client Perspectives on the Use of the Creative Arts Therapies in Eating Disorder Treatment
• 3. A Multi-theoretical Approach for Music Therapy in Eating Disorder Treatment
• 4. Resilience-Based Music Therapy in the Treatment of Adolescents with Eating Disorders
• 5. Expressive and Receptive Music Therapy in Eating Disorder Treatment
• 6. The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music in Eating Disorder Treatment
• 7. Making Sense Through Creativity: Creative Arts Therapy with Adolescents in an Inpatient Eating Disorder Program
• 8. Body and Self: The Use of Art Therapy in Eating Disorder Treatment
• 9. DBT in Action: Integrating Art Therapy Techniques and Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training into the Treatment of Eating Disorders
• 10. Beyond Words: Listening to the Body
• 11. Dance and Movement Therapy for Patients with Eating Disorders: Model of Expressive Therapies Continuum
• 12. Poetry Therapy in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
• 13. Eating Disorder as Protector: The Use of Internal Family Systems and Drama Therapy to Help Clients Understand the Protective Functions of Their Eating Disorders
• 14. Collaborative Work in Creative Arts Therapies
• 15. Family and Multi-family Experiential Work Using Creative Arts Therapies
• 16. Collaborating with a Creative Arts Therapist
• Appendix 1: Training Requirements for the Creative Arts Therapies
• Appendix 2: Song Lyrics
• Contributors
• Subject Index
• Author Index
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