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The Creative Response Information Pack

The Creative Response Information Pack covers the following areas in brief :

• Art Therapy in Hospices
• Art Therapy in Cancer
• Art Therapy and Symptom Control
• Art Therapy and Children with Life-Threatening Illness
• Art Therapy and Motor Neurone Disease
• Art Therapy for People with HIV and AIDS
• Art Therapy in the Community
• Art Therapy in Bereavement
• Art Therapy Bereavement Groups for Children

The pack also introduces the work of The Creative Response and Art Therapy in palliative care. Copies are available for £3.50 (incl p&p)

Art Therapy in Palliative Care – the Creative Response

Members of Creative Response also contributed to the book ‘Art Therapy in Palliative Care – the Creative Response’ M Pratt and MJM Wood (eds) 1998, Routledge, London. Contents:

• Foreword by Dame Cicely Saunders
• Preface by Dr Michael Kearney
• Introduction

• PART I

• What is art therapy? MJMWood
• What is palliative care? MJMWood
• Art therapy in palliative care. MJMWood
• Some images of illness: the place of art therapy in the palliative care team – a doctor’s perspective. Peter Kaye with a Postscript by Elizabeth Hall

• PART II

• Getting started: introducing the art therapy service and the individual’s first experiences. Jackie Coote
• What lies within us: individuals in a Marie Curie Hospice. Gill Thomas
• The search for a model which opens: open group at the Royal Marsden Hospital. Camilla Connell
• Will the kitchen table do? Art therapy in the community. Simon Bell
• The story board: reflections on group art therapy. Sheila Mayo
• A narrow ledge: art therapy at the London Lighthouse. Ann Bartholomew
• The butterfly garden: art therapy with HIV/AIDS prisoners. Val Beaver
• The body as art: individual session with a man with AIDS. Michele JMWood
• The invisible injury: adolescent griefwork group. Mandy Pratt
• From psychiatry to psycho-oncology: personal reflections on the use of art therapy with cancer patients. Paula Luzatto
• Sunbeams and icebergs, meteorites and daisies: a cancer patient’s experience of art therapy. Barbara Morley