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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
Introduction and Foreward

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

Part 1

  • What is art therapy? MJMWood
  • What is 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 2

  • 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