Healing the inner city child
Subtitle: creative arts therapies with at-risk youth
By: edited by Vanessa A. Camilleri.
Contributors: Camilleri, Vanessa A., 1973-
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781843108245
Subjects: Art therapy for children; City children -- Mental health; Art Therapy -- methods; Child; Adolescent; Creativeness; Music Therapy -- methods; Urban Health; Violence -- psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The inner city; title: At-risk children; title: Challenges faced by at-risk children in the inner city; title: Outcomes for at-risk children in the inner city; title: Moderating factors; title: Therapy with inner-city at-risk children; title: "Hear me sing": structured group song-writing with inner-city at-risk children / Vanessa A. Camilleri; title: Lifesongs: music therapy with adolescents in foster care / Diane Austin; title: "Can you play with me?" dealing with trauma, grief, and loss through analytical music therapy and play therapy / Juliane Kowski; title: Honoring Timothy's spirit: mural making to express, process, and overcome grief and loss / Dan Summer; title: The architecture of self-expression: creating community through art with children on Chicago's South side / Dorothy C. McGuire; title: Soho: space of her own: an art-based mentoring program for girls / Linda K. Odell; title: Collaboration and creativity: art therapy groups in a school suspension program / Ashley R. Dorr; title: Prevention interventions: art and drama therapy in three settings / Laura Soble and Janet K. Long; title: Emotional repair through action methods: the use of psychodrama, sociometry, psychodramatic journaling and experiential group therapy with adolescents / Tian Dayton; title: Make me wanna holler: dramatic encounters with boys from the inner city / Craig Haen; title: "Sit down and be quiet!" dance/movement therapy in an inner city elementary school after-care program / Susan Kierr Dyer; title: Operatic play: a drama and music therapy collaboration / Maria Hodermarska and Suzannah Scott-Moncrieff; title: Safe expressions: a community-based creative arts therapy program for at-risk youth / Flossie Ierardi, Mark Bottos and Mary K. O'Brien; title: Rediscover, reclaim and rejoice: the sesame approach of drama and movement therapy with the exploited girl child in India / Sonali Senroy and Priyadarshini Senroy; title: A safe distance: an intermodal approach to creating a country retreat for city girls who have been abused / Julie Lacy, Reina Michaelson and Carla van Laar.