Child and Adolescent Counselling with Expressive Therapies: Creative Arts Activities to Inspire Wellbeing

This practical guide to Expressive Therapies tools - a multi-modal, emotion-focused application of creative arts therapies - explains how expressive, creative and collaborative counselling methods can be offered to young people who experience emotional, behavioural, cognitive or existential difficulties. The authors share insights, principles, and practical activities that they have developed, applied clinically, and subsequently researched and taught for over 35 years.Chapters detail information on empowering young clients to learn mindful reflection and communicate their internal experiences using visual art, music, drama, movement, use of miniatures, and language.An integrative theoretical framework is provided that offers wide activity choices, responding to client preferences.Expressive Therapies aims to foster a clients’ capacity for resilience, hope and optimism.The appetite for more experiential, multi-modal creative arts-based approaches has evolved due to a rapidly growing ev