Healing the Inner City Child presents a diverse collection of creative arts therapies approaches to meeting the specific mental health needs of inner city children, who are disproportionately likely to experience violence, crime and family pressures and are at risk of depression and behavioural disorders as a result.
The contributors draw on their professional experience in school and community settings to describe a wide variety of suitable therapeutic interventions, including music, play and art therapy as well as psychodrama and dance/movement approaches, that enable children to deal with experiences of trauma, loss, abuse, and other risk factors that may affect their ability to reach their full academic and personal potentials. The contributors examine current research and psychoeducational trends and build a compelling case for the use of creative arts therapies with inner city populations.
A must-read for creative arts therapists, psychologists, social workers and educators, this book offers a comprehensive overview of arts-based interventions for anyone working to improve the lives of children growing up in inner city areas.
Table of Content
Preface. Part One: Setting the Scene, Vanessa Camillieri.. 1. The Inner City. 2. At-risk children. 3. Challenges Faced by At-risk Children in the Inner City. 4. Outcomes for At-risk children living in the Inner City. 5. Moderating Factors. 6. Therapy with Inner City At-risk children. Part Two: Healing the Inner City Child. 7. `Hear Me Sing’: Structured Group Songwriting with Inner City, At-risk Children, Vanessa Camilleri. 8. Lifesongs: Music Therapy with Adolescents in Foster Care, Diane Austin. 9. `Can You Play With Me?’ Dealing with Trauma, Grief and Loss through Analytical Music Therapy and Play Therapy, Juliane Kowski. 10. Honoring Timothy’s spirit: Mural Making to Express, Process, and Overcome Grief and Loss, Dan Summer. 11. The Architecture of Self-expression: Creating Community through Art with Children on Chicago’s South Side, Dorothy Mc Guire. 12. SOHO – Space of Her Own: An Art-based Mentoring Program for Girls, Linda Odell. 13. Colloboration and Creativity: Art Therapy Groups in a School Suspension Program , Ashley Dorr.
14. Prevention Interventions: Art and Drama Therapy in Three Settings, Janet Long and Laura Soble. 15.Emotional Repair through Action Methods: The Use of Psychodrama, Sociometry, Psychodramatic Journaling and Experiential Group Therapy with Adolescents, Tian Dayton. 16. `Make Me Wanna Holler’: Dramatic Encounters with Boys from the Inner City, Craig Haen. 17. `Sit Down and Be Quiet !’ Dance/movement Therapy in an Inner City Elementary School After-care Program, Susan Kierr Dyer. 18. Operatic Play: A Drama and Music Therapy Collaboration, Maria Hodermarska and Suzannah Scott-Moncrieff. 19. Safe Expressions: A Community-based Creative Arts Therapy Program for At-risk Youth, Mark Bottos, Flossie Ierardi and Mary O’Brien. 20. Rediscover, Reclaim and Rejoice: The Sesame Approach of Drama and Movement Therapy with Exploited Girls in India, Priyadarshini Senroy and Sonali Senroy. 21. 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. The Contributors. Subject Index. Author Index.
About the author
Diane Austin, DA, ACMT, LCAT, received her Doctorate in Music Therapy from New York University. She has maintained a private practice in music psychotherapy for the past 20 years with offices in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, New York. Diane is the Executive Director of The Music Psychotherapy Center and an associate professor in the Graduate Music Therapy program at New York University. Widely published in books and journals, she lectures and teaches nationally and internationally, integrating the theories and ideas from Depth Psychology with the practice of music therapy and the use of the voice in the therapeutic process. Diane lives in Sag Harbor, New York with her husband and Amazon parrot.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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