Description: An edited collection from art, music, drama, dance and play therapists on the proven benefits of arts therapies when applied in a range of interdisciplinary settings. Caroline Miller aims to help arts therapists to advocate for their profession to the colleagues, families and clients with whom they work.
Brief description: Caroline Miller is a dramatherapist and psychologist working in private practice. She completed her training as a dramatherapist at the University of Leeds in 1991. Since her training she has relocated to New Zealand where she has had experience of providing arts therapies in a number of interdisciplinary settings, including mental health services and both mainstream and special needs schools. In 2001 she became the inaugural co-director of the only training programme for arts therapists in New Zealand.
Review Quotes: From a practitioner's perspective the roles, responsibilities, and overall creative contributions of the professional arts therapist(s), within collaborative work, are asserted in this pivotal publication. Each chapter provides a purposeful and sensitive self-reflexive investigation that results in a strategic and perhaps renewed conceptualization of one's role that ultimately leads to an informed and enriched practice. This book is a welcomed addition to our collection of contemporary mental health and arts therapy resources; a definite recommended read for our graduates.--Ronald P.M.H. Lay, MA, AThR, ATR-BC, Registered and Board-Certified Art Therapist, Supervisor and Programme Leader, MA Art Therapy, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore