Arts Therapists in Multidisciplinary Settings

Working Together for Better Outcomes

Caroline Miller

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784500757
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

In a multidisciplinary setting or team, competing perspectives and principles can be challenging to negotiate, but supportive working relationships and effective collaboration can ultimately lead to an enriched experience and innovative outcomes for both professionals and clients.

Drawing on their diverse experiences, art, music, drama, play and dance therapists emphasise the valuable results that their respective disciplines can produce when applied in settings ranging from schools to hospices, in collaboration with behaviour therapists, teachers, occupational therapists, speech therapists and other practitioners. The book provides a unique perspective on the common issues faced by arts therapists when working with other professionals and will assist arts therapists in promoting their profession to co-workers and clients.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Of Related Interest
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Overview: Strengthening the Arts Therapist Identity in Multidisciplinary Settings
• Chapter 2. The Wounded Healer: Professional Identity and the Role of Self-care in Clinical Practice
• Chapter 3. Finding My Place in a Multi/Inter-Professional Team
• Chapter 4. Dances of Paradox and Role Diffusion
• Chapter 5. Music Therapy within a Multidisciplinary Special Education Team
• Chapter 6. Working Collaboratively in a Multi-Professional Team
• Chapter 7. Group Music Therapy in a Mental Health Service with Older Adults: ‘It sure beats watching television’
• Chapter 8. Considerations of Change in Play Therapy with Young Children
• Chapter 9. Shifting Lines: Palliative Art Therapy in the Home
• Chapter 10. Working Together, Playing Together: Co-creating a Music Therapy Space for Young Children with Special Needs
• Chapter 11. Establishing the Web of Relationships: Dance Movement Therapist as Teacher Aide
• Chapter 12. The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Music Therapy and Collaboration in an Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
• Chapter 13. Dramatherapy in a Multicultural Secondary School
• Chapter 14. Cloak of Care: Music Therapy in Multidisciplinary Hospice Care
• Chapter 15. Woven Strands: Creating a Community Support Network in Private Practice
• Conclusion
• Contributors
• Subject Index
• Author Index
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