Drawing the Line: Art Therapy with the Difficult Client / Edition 1

by Lisa B. Moschini

Overview

This resourceful guide presents art therapy techniques for difficult clients where the typical therapist-client interaction can often be distant, demanding, and frustrating. Offering practical and theoretical information from a wide variety of treatment populations and diagnostic categories; and incorporating individual, group, and family therapy case studies, the text is filled with examples and over 150 illustrations taken from the author’s sixteen years of experience working with hundreds of clients. The author is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Master’s degree in Clinical Art Therapy. The text comes with an accompanying CD-ROM which includes full-color pictures and additional material not found in the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471687733
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/24/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Lisa B. Moschini has a BFA in art and design from California Institute of the Arts and an MA in clinical art therapy from Loyola Marymount University. She has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 1992 and is the owner of Drawing-the-Line Seminars & Consulting (www.drawing-the-line.net), which specializes in the blending of the arts and psychotherapy. She presently resides in Santa Barbara, California.

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Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: A Difficult Client Defined.

PART I: Defense Mechanisms and the Norms of Behavior.

1. In My Defense.

2. Adaptation and Integration.

PART II: Reading Between the Lines.

3. Interpreting the Art.

4. Directives.

PART III: The Practice of Art Therapy.

5. Individual Therapy: Three Cases Revealed.

6. Group Therapy Illustrated.

7. Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd? Family Therapy Directives.

Appendix A: Structural Aspects: Quantitative Analysis.

Appendix B: Formal Aspects: Qualitative Analysis of the Person.

Appendix C: Formal Aspects: Qualitative Analysis of the House.

Appendix D: Formal Aspects: Qualitative Analysis of the Tree.

Appendix E: Eight-Card Redrawing Test Adapted Scoring Sheet.

Appendix F: Sample Directives.

Appendix G: Sample Group Processing Directives.

References.

Index.

About the CD-ROM.