Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children

Second Edition

P. Gussie Klorer

Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children offers students in training and professionals who work with children an array of sensitive and creative ways to help even their most challenging patients. The second edition builds upon cutting-edge research in the neuroscience of trauma and art therapy to examine children’s development alongside their understanding of trauma. Including many new and revised case studies, Klorer illustrates effective treatment strategies to offer patients alternative means of expression. Klorer’s rich and highly accessible teaching voice seamlessly weaves together art therapy theory, research, and cases into an invaluable resource for students and practitioners alike.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 228 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4422-6855-5 • Hardback • February 2017 • $130.00 • (£100.00)

978-1-4422-6856-2 • Paperback • February 2017 • $59.00 • (£45.00)

978-1-4422-6857-9 • eBook • February 2017 • $56.00 • (£43.00)

Subjects: Psychology / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent, Psychology / Creative Ability, Psychology / Developmental / Child, Psychology / Psychotherapy / Counseling

Courses: Psychology; Clinical; Counseling and Therapy; Expressive Arts Therapy, Psychology; Clinical; Counseling and Therapy; Child and Adolescent Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy

Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children

Second Edition

Hardback

Paperback

eBook

Summary

Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children offers students in training and professionals who work with children an array of sensitive and creative ways to help even their most challenging patients. The second edition builds upon cutting-edge research in the neuroscience of trauma and art therapy to examine children’s development alongside their understanding of trauma. Including many new and revised case studies, Klorer illustrates effective treatment strategies to offer patients alternative means of expression. Klorer’s rich and highly accessible teaching voice seamlessly weaves together art therapy theory, research, and cases into an invaluable resource for students and practitioners alike.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 228 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4422-6855-5 • Hardback • February 2017 • $130.00 • (£100.00)

978-1-4422-6856-2 • Paperback • February 2017 • $59.00 • (£45.00)

978-1-4422-6857-9 • eBook • February 2017 • $56.00 • (£43.00)

Subjects: Psychology / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent, Psychology / Creative Ability, Psychology / Developmental / Child, Psychology / Psychotherapy / Counseling

Courses: Psychology; Clinical; Counseling and Therapy; Expressive Arts Therapy, Psychology; Clinical; Counseling and Therapy; Child and Adolescent Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy

Author

P. Gussie Klorer, PhD, ATR-BC, is director and professor of the graduate art therapy counseling program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She maintains a clinical practice in art therapy counseling with a specialization in work with children and trauma.

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