Coholic Diana - Arts Activities For Children And Young People In Need Helping Children To Develop Mindfulness Spiritual Awareness And Self - Esteem - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Art - based activities can develop resilience and self - esteem enabling children in need to cope better with ongoing stress and loss. Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need offers interventions and exercises drawn from practice and research for practitioners to use as a basis for their own arts - based groups or one - to - one sessions. Holistic arts activities facilitate a spiritually sensitive approach. Mindfulness - based exercises underpin the approach and include guided meditations in which a group imagines that they are clouds or draw feelings and emotions while listening to music to encourage awareness of the senses. The activities help the group to relax and become more self - aware encourage an exploration of feelings values and understanding and are beneficial for children not ready to embrace traditional therapies or counselling. This book is accessible and suitable for helping health and education practitioners and students from a variety of disciplines such as social work psychology and counselling.
Title: Arts Activities For Children And Young People In Need Helping Children To Develop Mindfulness Spiritual Awareness And Self - Esteem
Author(s): Coholic Diana
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Barcode: 9781849050012
Pages: 192 Pages, 9 Figures
Publication Date: 2/1/2010
Category: Creative Therapy (Eg Art, Music, Drama)