Prendiville Eileen - Creative Psychotherapy

Creative Psychotherapy brings together the expertise of leading authors and clinicians from around the world to synthesize what we understand about how the brain develops, the neurological impact of trauma and the development of play. The authors explain how to use this information to plan developmentally appropriate interventions and guide creative counselling across the lifespan.

The book includes a theoretical rationale for various creative media associated with particular stages of neural development and examines how creative approaches can be used with all client groups suffering from trauma. Using case studies and exemplar intervention plans, the book presents ways in which creative activities can be used sequentially to support healing and development in young children, adolescents and adults.

Creative Psychotherapy will be of interest to mental health professionals working with children, adolescents and adults, including play and arts therapists, counsellors, family therapists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists and teachers. It will also be a valuable resource for clinically oriented postgraduate students, and therapists who work with victims of interpersonal trauma.

Eileen Prendiville is the Course Director for the MA in Creative Psychotherapy and Play Therapy at Irelands Childrens Therapy Centre. She is heavily involved in providing play therapy and creative psychotherapy training, both nationally and internationally. She devised The Therapeutic Touchstone, an innovative approach for use when working with vulnerable and dependent clients and, with Justine Howard, co-authored Play Therapy Today: Contemporary practice for individuals, groups and parents.

Dr Justine Howard is an Associate Professor at the College of Human and Health Science at Swansea University. She is a Chartered Psychologist and specialist in developmental and therapeutic play. Her consultancy activity has included the delivery of training courses in play for a wide range of professional groups across childrens services. She is internationally recognized as an expert in play and child development, and has published numerous journal articles, book chapters and books in this field.

This book is a timely and valuable gift to the field of play and expressive artsbased psychotherapy. Neurosequential development is essential knowledge for therapists who work with individuals across the lifespan and specifically to address concerns arising in childhood. Prendiville and Howard have logically sequenced this volume to incorporate neurobiological principles with targeted sensory interventions for lower brain regions and with creative art, narrative and imaginative play interventions to progress neural integration for higher brain systems. A synaptic tree of therapeutic knowledge.

Judi Parson, PhD, RN, APPTA RPT-S: Lecturer in Mental Health Child Play Therapy, Deakin University, Australia

Creative Psychotherapy is a fantastic addition to the child therapy literature. This volume offers a wonderfully rich integration of current neurobiological research with various play and expressive therapeutic practices. The worlds of clinical practice and developmental research often exist in parallel. Creative Psychotherapy helps bridge these worlds, to the benefit of practitioners, researchers, and most importantly, the children who we try to understand and help.

Henry Kronengold, PhD, Clinical Supervisor, Doctoral Programin Clinical Psychology, City University of New York, USA

I enjoyed the book immensely. I felt like I walked right into it and couldnt leave it alone! Some areas I read and re-read several times, then was so intrigued I went to the reference texts to study them. Im excited to see where this goes!

Joan Wilson, Registered Psychotherapist, Certified Play Therapy Supervisor, Trainer and Supervisor with the Theraplay Institute, Canada

Edited by
Eileen Prendiville and
Justine Howard

First published 2017
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Prendiville, Eileen, 1958, editor. | Howard, Justine, editor.
Title: Creative psychotherapy: applying the principles of neurobiology to
play and expressive arts-based practice/edited by Eileen Prendiville and
Justine Howard.
Other titles: Creative psychotherapy (Howard)
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. | Includes
bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016005960 | ISBN 9781138900912 (hardback) | ISBN
9781138900929 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315680507 (ebook)
Subjects: | MESH: Sensory Art Therapies methods
Classification: LCC RC489.A72 | NLM WM 450 | DDC 616.89/1656 dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016005960

ISBN: 978-1-138-90091-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-90092-9 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-68050-7 (ebk)

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Welcome baby Andrew.

Who knew it could get any better? But then there were two twice as nice. Andrew, there has been much love and laughter, to say nothing about a multitude of hide-and-seek games, with your big sister Emilia. I look forward to the games we will play together again and again and again. The power of repetition!

I love being a Granny.

Eileen

Eileen Prendiville and Justine Howard

PART I
Applying the principles of neurobiology to play and expressive arts-based practice

EILEEN PRENDIVILLE

EILEEN PRENDIVILLE AND JUSTINE HOWARD

TERRY KOTTMAN, REBECCA DICKINSON AND KRISTIN MEANY-WALEN

LORRI YASENIK AND KEN GARDNER

PART II
Working with the brainstem and midbrain

EIMIR MCGRATH

MAGGIE FEARN AND PABLO TROCCOLI

SIOBHN PRENDIVILLE AND MAGGIE FEARN

PART III
Working with the limbic and cortical systems

CLAIRE COLREAVY DONNELLY

DANIEL S. SWEENEY

AIDEEN TAYLOR DE FAOITE, EILEEN PRENDIVILLE AND THERESA FRASER

KAREN STAGNITTI