The Expressive Arts Activity Book, 2nd Edition: A Resource for Professionals - Paperback

by Wende Heath (Author), Suzanne Darley (Author), Robert M. Sapolsky (Foreword by)

This resource comprises a collection of accessible, flexible, tried-and-tested activities for use with people in a range of care and therapy settings, to help them explore their knowledge of themselves and to make sense of their experiences.

Among the issues addressed by the activities are exploring physical changes, emotional trauma, interpersonal problems and spiritual dilemmas. Designed with simple and inexpensive art tools in mind for individual and group activities of varying difficulty, it also includes real-life anecdotes that bring the techniques to life. This new edition contains extra activities and resources to promote the continuing wellness of patients and clients outside of therapy settings.

This new edition of the Expressive Arts Activity Book is full of fun, easy, creative ideas for workers in hospitals, clinics, schools, hospices, spiritual and religious settings, and in private practice.

Author Biography

Suzanne Darley has worked in arts and education for over 30 years. She holds a PHD in Philosophy, an MA in East-West Psychology and is a certified Expressive Arts Educator. She has worked in primary health care settings at the Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, California, and California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and taught at San Francisco Waldorf High School.

Wende Heath is a Clinical Therapist, a board certified Art Therapist and a registered Expressive Arts Therapist with over twenty years of therapeutic and art experience in a variety of healthcare settings. She developed and directed the Expressive Arts Program for the Institute of Health and Healing at Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, California, and California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.