Arts Therapists in Multidisciplinary Settings: Working Together for Better Outcomes

266 Pages·2016·1.981 MB·English

by  Caroline Miller

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‘This rich collection of essays provides ample evidence of the many benefits to be gained M
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– Ronald P.M.H. Lay, MA, AThR, ATR-BC, Registered and Board-Certified S
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Caroline Milleris a dramatherapist and psychologist working in private practice. She
completed her training as a dramatherapist at the University of Leeds in 1991. She then
relocated to New Zealand where she has provided arts therapies in a number of
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special needs schools. In 2001 she became the inaugural co-director of the only training IT Arts Therapists
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Arts Therapists in
Multidisciplinary Settings
Working Together for
Better Outcomes
Edited by Caroline Miller
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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First published in 2016
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Arts therapists in multidisciplinary settings /edited by Caroline Miller.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-84905-611-3 (alk. paper)
1. Art therapy. 2. Psychotherapist and patient. I. Miller, Caroline, 1944-
RC489.A7A795 2016
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Contents
List of Abbreviations 10
Acknowledgements 11
Introduction 13
Caroline Miller, Drama Therapist and Clinical
Psychologist
Chapter 1 Overview: Strengthening the Arts Therapist
Identity in Multidisciplinary Settings 23
Caroline Miller
Key words: collaboration, evidence-based profession,
functions and advantages, team types
Chapter 2 The Wounded Healer: Professional Identity and
the Role of Self-care in Clinical Practice 38
Mariana Torkington, Arts Therapist
Key words: art therapy, choice theory, creativity,
sand play therapy, vicarious trauma
Chapter 3 Finding My Place in a
Multi/Inter-Professional Team 54
Abigail Raymond, Arts Therapist
Key words: arts therapist, autism spectrum disorder
(ASD), collaborative, inter-professional, multi-professional
Chapter 4 Dances of Paradox and Role Diffusion 68
Marion Gordon-Flower, Arts Therapist
Key words: adult rehabilitation, Art Therapy 5-Pt Star
Assessment, disability, multimodal, social development
and social justice
Chapter 5 Music Therapy within a Multidisciplinary
Special Education Team 83
Megan Spragg, Music Therapist
Key words: children, co-therapy, music therapy,
special education
Chapter 6 Working Collaboratively in a
Multi-Professional Team 95
Robin Barnaby, Arts Therapist and Neetu Sharma,
Behaviour Therapist
Key words: applied behaviour analysis, autism,
collaborative, dramatherapy, group work, multi-
professional team, play
Chapter 7 Group Music Therapy in a Mental Health
Service with Older Adults: ‘It sure beats
watching television’ 109
Shari Storie, Music Therapist
Key words: group music therapy, mental health,
multidisciplinary, older adults
Chapter 8 Considerations of Change in Play Therapy with
Young Children 123
Steve Harvey, Consultant Psychologist, Judy Donovan,
Social Worker and Tosca Lammerts Van Bueren,
Social Worker
Key words: child mental health service, creative
peer supervision, physical storytelling, play therapy,
standard measures
Chapter 9 Shifting Lines: Palliative Art Therapy
in the Home 140
Jennie Halliday, Arts Therapist
Key words: art therapy, hospice, interdisciplinary,
palliative care, working with bereaved families
Chapter 10 Working Together, Playing Together:
Co-creating a Music Therapy Space for
Young Children with Special Needs 153
Alison Talmage, Music Therapist
Key words: group music therapy, holding,
multidisciplinary, play, special education
Chapter 11 Establishing the Web of Relationships: Dance
Movement Therapist as Teacher Aide 166
Anaia Treefoot, Dance Movement Therapist and
Lucy-Mary Mulholland, Arts Therapist
Key words: arts therapies, autism, collaboration,
dance movement therapy (DMT), education
Chapter 12 The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts:
Music Therapy and Collaboration in an Infant,
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service 182
Heather Fletcher, Music Therapist
Key words: infant, child and adolescent mental health
service (ICAMHS), music therapy, rural service, trauma
Chapter 13 Dramatherapy in a Multicultural
Secondary School 198
Adrian Lania, Drama Therapist
Key words: dramatherapy, multiculturalism,
self-agency, subjectivity, team work
Chapter 14 Cloak of Care: Music Therapy in
Multidisciplinary Hospice Care 212
Keryn Squires, Music Therapist
Key words: hospice, multidisciplinary team,
music therapy, palliative
Chapter 15 Woven Strands: Creating a Community Support
Network in Private Practice 227
Agnès Desombiaux-Sigley, Counsellor, Family
Therapist and Arts Psychologist
Key words: arts therapy with children and adults,
private practice, systemic
Conclusion 241
Caroline Miller
Contributors 244
Subject Index 250
Author Index 256
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Figure 2.1 Victim and healer 43
Figure 2.2 Survival 44
Figure 2.3 Love and belonging 45
Figure 2.4 Power 47
Figure 2.5 Freedom 48
Figure 2.6 Fun 50
Figure 3.1 Team puppets 57
Figure 3.2 Group tile montage 58
Figure 3.3 Group puzzle mandala 58
Figure 8.1 The sand tray response to ‘What is it like to do play
therapy within a government mental health system?’ 127
Figure 8.2 Another perspective of the same sand tray 127
Figure 8.3 The sand tray of case study one 131
Figure 8.4 The scene of the enactment for case study two 132
Figure 8.5 The sand tray for an ongoing case presented to selected
MDT members 134
Figure 9.1 The fish that got away 147
Figure 9.2 Fiona – the fish that got away 148
Figure 9.3 The family group work 149
Figure 12.1 Adaptation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs 185
Figure 12.2 Improvised music – Session 1 189
Figure 12.3 Improvised music – Melissa and pink elephants – part one 190
Figure 12.4 Melissa and pink elephants – part two 191
Figure 12.5 Relationship between words and music 193
Figure 14.1 Family support cottage at Te Omanga Hospice 217
Figure 14.2 Māori Korowai – Cloak of Care 219
Figure 14.3 Man using ocean drum 220
Figure 14.4 Cloak with Mary Death’s poem 223
Figure 15.1 Mirroring 232
Figure 15.2 Constellation of self 233
Figure 15.3 Hurt 236
Figure 15.4 Hope 236
Figure 15.5 Cherry blossom 237