Irene Renzenbrink

An Expressive Arts Approach to Healing Loss and Grief

Working Across the Spectrum of Loss with Individuals and Communities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By exploring the healing and restorative power of expressive arts therapies in dealing with grief and loss, this book strengthens the connection between these two fields to use in practice. Grounded in personal and professional experience, it widens our understanding of grief and highlights the ways in which expressive arts therapies can help.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781787752788
• ISBN-10: 178775278X
• Artikelnr.: 61288077

Autorenporträt

Irene Renzenbrink is a qualified expressive arts therapist. She has worked as a social worker, with extensive experience in palliative care and bereavement support. In the last ten years, she has refocused on expressive arts therapy, completing a PhD in the topic.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Stephen K. Levine
Prologue
Chapter 1 Historical and Theoretical Milestones in Understanding Loss,
Grief and Trauma, Part I Standing on the shoulders of giants
Chapter 2 Historical and Theoretical Milestones in Understanding Loss,
Grief and Trauma, Part II Paradigm Shifts and New Directions
Chapter 3 The Evolution of Expressive Arts Therapy
Chapter 4 The Healing Power of an Expressive Arts Approach
Chapter 5 So Many Little Dyings: Working Across the Spectrum of Loss
Chapter 6 Illuminating Loss and Grief through Poetry and Metaphor
Chapter 7 To Leave is to Die a Little: Loss of Home and Place
Chapter 8. On Death and Dying: The Wilder Shore of Illness
Chapter 9. Creative Responses to Disaster
Chapter 10. Repairing the World
Epilogue