Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies

Tasha Colbert PG(dip), RDMP, UKCP is a registered dance movement psychotherapist who has practiced for over fifteen years with a variety of client groups in the NHS, education and private practice. She lectures on dance movement psychotherapy programmes in the UK and internationally, and facilitates various continued professional development (CPD) trainings. She is an experienced clinical supervisor and psychotherapist with a private practice in West London. Cornelia Bent MA, HCPC, BAMT is a UK registered music therapist who has worked for over ten years with a wide range of client groups in a variety of settings, including the NHS, education and charity sector. Within her current clinical practice in adult mental health, she often collaborates with other arts psychotherapists, contributes clinically to music therapy research trials and presents at conferences internationally.

List of Contributors Foreword Introduction

Part I: Cross Modality Practice and Research in the Arts Therapies 1 Not Doing What it Says on the Tin: A family awareness group in a high security hospital 2 Moving Colour: Combining dance movement psychotherapy and art psychotherapy in a NHS community women’s group 3 Staying Connected: Combining music therapy and dance movement psychotherapy in an acute mental health setting 4 Facing Rupture and Nurturing a Creative Space: A dramatherapy and art therapy group on an acute ward in a medium secure forensic hospital 5 Ambivalence, Boundaries, Edges and Expansion: Relatedness and collaboration in a dance movement psychotherapy and music therapy group for adults with learning disabilities 6 Stretch Marks: An exploration of a joint dramatherapy and music therapy group 7 An Innovative Collaboration: Combining art and music therapy interventions for adults with learning disabilities 8 Holding Hope: Rehabilitation of Syrian refugee children through art, music and dance movement therapy

Part II: Transdisciplinary Practice and Research in the Arts Therapies 9 Regaining Balance through Family Art Psychotherapy 10 A Transdisciplinary Approach: Working with individuals in a sex offender treatment programme 11 The Boy Who Cried Wolf: A collaborative approach to long term segregation 12 Left Overs: Exploring Body Image 13 Almost Paradise: A creative arts collaboration helping US veterans recover from homelessness