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The Myth of Normal: Illness, health & healing in a toxic culture
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Filled with stories of people in the grip of illness or in the triumphant wake of recovery, this life-affirming book shows how true health is possible – if we are willing to embrace authenticity above social expectations. The Myth of Normal is Gabor Maté’s most ambitious, compassionate and urgent book yet.
Dramatherapy and Recovery: The CoActive Therapeutic Theatre Model and Manual
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Dramatherapy and Recovery equips practitioners of dramatherapy, counseling arts in health, applied theater, community theater, and other mental health disciplines with the tools needed to create transformative performances with individuals reconnecting with the community after treatment.
The Drama Therapy Decision Tree: Connecting Drama Therapy Interventions to Clinical Outcomes (2nd Edition)
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This book is a practical guide in four sections, not a checklist. Rather than using a standardized protocol that makes the decisions for the therapist, drama therapy is based on dynamic, embodied, creative action with participants in the here and now.
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Dramatherapy and the Bereaved Child : Telling the Truth to Children During Difficult Times
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This book addresses the needs of children experiencing the hospitalization or death of a caregiver or loved one to comprehend and cope with tragedy with the assistance creative non-fictions and dramatic play.
Trauma and Embodied Healing in Dramatherapy, Theatre and Performance
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This edited volume explores the singularity of embodiment and somatic approaches in the healing of trauma from a dramatherapy, theatre and performance perspective.
Here We Go Again! A story about bullying
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Here We Go Again! – A Story About Bullying highlights the importance of seeking help at a difficult time. Bullying can be a complicated and painful experience, and sadly something that many children struggle with.
Dramatherapy and Learning Disabilities: Developing Emotional Growth, Autonomy and Self-Worth
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This book will be a significant resource for trainee dramatherapists, arts therapists and professionals interested in incorporating creative methods into their practice. It also provides examples of burgeoning arts therapies research within the field and lays the foundations for future projects.
Intercultural Dramatherapy: Imagination and Action at the Intersections of Difference
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The first overarching work on dramatherapy intercultural practice and research, this book explores the therapeutic encounter between therapists and participants as an intercultural space, highlighting how attending to cultural differences informs care.
Managing Social Anxiety in Children and Young People: Practical Activities for Reducing Stress and Building Self-esteem
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Managing Social Anxiety in Children and Young People introduces a new approach for working with anxious children and young people to help them develop social skills and reduce stress.
Dramatherapy With Elders and People With Dementia: Enabling Developmental Wellbeing
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The book takes the reader through the dramatherapy experience of a group of people who display a ‘feeling intelligence’; a quality that softens distress at vanishing words and clouded memories. Unique in its approach, not only to dramatherapy with elders and people with dementia, it presents an essential validation of older people’s life stage development.
Is It Me?
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Gerry the giraffe is feeling rather sad and glum as he ponders his relationship with his father. He wonders does his father love him? Why does he not spend more time with him? Luckily Leonard lion and El the wise elephant are on hand to explore with him what is really happening with his father.
A story about having a parent with mental health difficulties.
Dramatherapy: The Nature of Interruption
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This book investigates the nature and phenomena of interruption in ways that have relevance for contemporary dramatherapy practice. It is a timely contribution amidst an ‘age of interruption’ and examines how dramatherapists might respond with agency and discernment in personal, professional and cultural contexts.
Find Your Way: A Story and Drama Resource to Promote Mental Well-being in Young People
Our Price: $68.15 (with free UK delivery)
Stories are an invaluable tool for connecting with people, especially those reluctant to engage with more direct approaches. This powerful resource presents ten original, emotive and illustrated short stories designed to guide therapeutic work with adolescents and young adults in the classroom or consulting room by promoting emotional resilience and independent thinking.
Routledge International Handbook of Dramatherapy
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Routledge International Handbook of Dramatherapy is the first book of its kind to bring together leading professionals and academics from around the world to discuss their practice from a truly international perspective.
Mindfulness Skills for Kids Card Deck and 3 Card Games
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52 exercises and practices to help kids calm their mind and body, pay attention, become more self-aware, feel happier and confident, connect with others and have fun.
Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations
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Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations offers an in-depth insight into cross-modality and transdisciplinary practice in the arts therapies.
Creative Play with Children at Risk (2nd edition)
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This second edition is fully updated with the latest good practice in play. Based on an understanding of ‘Neuro-Dramatic-Play’, the book shows that play is an essential part of children’s healthy development and many children ‘at risk’ are those who are unable to play. It includes work with children with learning difficulties as well as those with developmental delay.
Creative Storytelling with Children at Risk (2nd edition)
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This second edition is fully updated and addresses ways in which we can apply stories and storytelling with children who are troubled. Stories can empower children to take action and ask for help, including help with changes and life-plans
My Calm Place: Yoga, Mindfulness & Meditation Strategies for Children (Card Deck)
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“My Calm Place” card deck combines yoga, meditation, mindfulness and guided imagery activities to calm emotions and promote self-regulation in children. Fun and easy-to-use, these 50 exercises are perfect for the classroom, clinic or at home.
No-Drama Discipline Workbook: Exercises, Activities, and Practical Strategies to Calm The Chaos and Nurture Developing Minds
Our Price: $29.20 (with free UK delivery)
Based on their New York Times bestselling book No-Drama Discipline, internationally acclaimed neuropsychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, MD, and brain-based parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, have created a guide to manage and reduce drama in your interactions with your kids, and even decrease the amount of time you spend having to discipline.
Dramatherapy with Myth and Fairytale: The Golden Stories of Sesame
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The book will be an invaluable source of inspiration for dramatherapists and dramatherapy students, creative arts therapists, storytellers, psychotherapists, psychsynthesists, Jungian psychoanalysts, teachers and play therapists.
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Proven Strategies to Nurture Your Child s Developing Mind
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In this pioneering, practical book for parents, neuroscientist Daniel J. Siegel and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson explain the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. Different parts of a child’s brain develop at different speeds and understanding these differences can help you turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your child’s brain and raise calmer, happier children.
Healthy Attachments and Neuro-dramatic-play
Our Price: $39.93 (with free UK delivery)
This accessible text will interest all therapists and practitioners who work with children, including child psychotherapists, social workers, paediatric nurses, paediatricians, child psychiatrists and students of play therapy and all arts therapies.
Creative Play and Drama with Adults at Risk
Our Price: $77.89 (with free UK delivery)
This book is suitable for professionals working with adults who are vulnerable for a number of different reasons: those who have addictions such as eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse or a history of violent relationships; adults with mental ill health; individuals and families with behavioural difficulties; people in forensic settings; those with multiple disabilities; learning impaired adults; people with strokes and other physical impairment often as a result of accidental injury.