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Author
Publisher
Quarry Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, artistic offering that offers projects on challenging, but universal subjects.
In follow up to Faith Books & Spiritual Journaling, author Sharon Soneff will continue to show that there is a richer, deeper reward to artistic, creative journals beyond the beauty they supply. In this new volume, Art Journals & Creative Healing, she demonstrates with real excerpts from beautiful and unusual artistic journals that the process of journaling...
Author
Publisher
Lowell House
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and effective form of communication, art has increasingly become a therapeutic method for enhancing health and well-being, releasing traumatic experiences, and alleviating stress or physical pain." "The Art Therapy Sourcebook reveals the therapeutic value of artistic expression and provides guidelines for creating and interpreting your art. Artistic talent is not a prerequisite, only a desire to increase self-understanding and find personal...
Author
Publisher
Orca Books Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This nonfiction book for middle-grade readers, illustrated with photographs, tells the story of the making of the Witness Blanket, a work by Indigenous artist Carey Newman that includes items from every residential school in Canada and stories from the Survivors who donated them."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This title makes social-emotional learning approachable and easy! The book profiles the emotional dimension of wellness. Informative, thought-provoking text examines the core elements and the practices that support emotional wellness, including emoji pins, glitter emotion jars, and more. Woven throughout the main text are activities and projects encouraging readers to explore wellness in a creative way.
Author
Publisher
Leaping Hare Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Art therapy and the act of painting is widely acknowledged to bring positive mental health benefits, as it helps us centre ourselves, focus our intentions and engage creatively with the world around us. This beautiful guided watercolour book combines these aspects with the healing powers of nature to take you on a journey toward peace and tranquility. Even if you have no experience with watercolours or painting, Painting Calm’s accessible and easy-to-follow...
Author
Series
Publisher
Super Genius
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers in the backseat. When she wakes in the hospital, she is told that her youngest brother, Michael, is dead. Wendy -- a once rational teenager - shocks her family by insisting that Michael is alive and in the custody of a mysterious flying boy. Placed in a new school, Wendy negotiates fantasy and reality as students and adults around...
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Full of activity ideas and projects to teach children and teens aged 5+ social skills, anger-control strategies, conflict resolution, positive thinking, and more, this book follows on from The Big Book of Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Children and Teens. It includes over 90 activities that are adaptable for use with individuals and groups.
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This book "shows you how creating art can help ease depression, anxiety, PTSD, and life's other challenges. Art therapy activities like drawing, painting, and sculpting will help you better understand your state of mind in order to gain control over your emotions and improve your self-esteem. From drawing a representation of your favorite song, to writing affirmations and taking photos to match, these therapeutic exercises will help you overcome the...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
This manual is intended primarily as a text for students and others who want to help themselves regarding their health under the supervision of their medical doctors and health care practitioners. Medora uses the approach of expressive therapy, spiritual growth and health that she has taught.
Publisher
Regan
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of "PostSecret" comes a collectible, flexibound book offering a fascinating glimpse inside the secret world of teens and college students, presented through their homemade postcards anonymously submitted to Warren. Full color.
17) Arts & the mind
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
This two part special details the impact of music, dance, painting, poetry, and theatre on the human brain across a person's lifetime and explores its role in early human development. Stories are shared showing how the arts can improve children's school performance and reveals cutting edge science that explains the powerful, positive impact of the arts on the human brain.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A graphic memoir and adapted oral history of Unit 371, an inpatient AIDS care hospital unit in Chicago that was in existence from 1985 to 2000. Examines the human costs of caregiving and the role art can play in the grieving process"--
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Petula de Wilde, who is anything but wild, meets Jacob in their school's dorky art therapy program, his friendship (and something more) helps her overcome intense fears since her sister died. And he has a secret of his own"--
Since her sister's death, Petula de Wilde sees danger in everything. A mandatory art therapy class with a groups of teenage misfits is the worst part of each week. She wants nothing to do with them-- especially Jacob and...
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