Arts Therapies in International Practice: Informed by Neuroscience and Research brings together practice and research in the arts therapies and in neuroscience. The authors are all arts therapists who have reviewed their practice through the lens of modern neuroscience. Neuroscience confirms the importance of embodiment, choice, and creativity in therapy with a range of clients. Arts therapies directly provide these.

The authors demonstrate how the arts therapies can be adapted creatively to work in different social and ethnic communities, with different ages and with different states of health or ill health. Although there is diversity in their practice and country of practice, they reaffirm key concepts of the arts therapies, such as the importance of the therapeutic relationship, and the key role played by the arts modality with its effects on the brain and nervous system.

This book will appeal to a wide readership, including arts therapists, expressive arts therapists, a range of other psychotherapists and counsellors, students and their teachers, and those interested in the neuroscience of human development.

Table of Contents
Part One: Setting the Scene. Introduction, Caroline Miller 1. Arts Therapies: Recent Advances, Caroline Miller Part Two: Arts Therapies in Practice 2. Metaphor and Implicit Memory (Jonah and the missing heart: A story of attachment and dramatherapy), Sarah Mann Shaw 3. Narradrama as a Three-Act Play: Transformation, Neurobiology, and Discovery, Pamela Dunne & Renda Dionne Madrigal 4. Dramatherapy with Adolescents in Malaysia: Be Vanitha Chandrasegaram 5. A Multimodal, Multitheoretical Arts-Psychotherapy Approach to Trauma and Depression, Agnès Desombiaux-Sigley 6. We are Here Together for A while: Art Therapy Initiatives within a Hospice Setting in Singapore, Kim Hau Pang 7. Imagination and Art Therapy: A Bridge to Transformation for Traumatised Clients, Mariana Torkington 8. Singing all Together in the CeleBRation Choir: A Music Therapist's Perspective on Community Singing for Adults who have Neurogenic Communication Difficulties, Alison Talmage 9. Music therapy for autistic children- responding to contemporary understandings with new research approaches, Daphne Rickson 10. In Circle: The Benefits of Dance as a Community Practice, Sian Palmer 11. Mind and Movement: Using the Universality ofNeuroscience in Dance Movement Therapy, Verity Danbold Part Three: Reflections and Review 12. Reflections, Caroline Miller 13. Future Development, Caroline Miller and Mariana Torkington