Arts Therapies and Progressive Illness Nameless Dread

Name: Arts Therapies and Progressive Illness Nameless Dread
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ISBN: 9780415219815

ISBN-10: 0415219817

ISBN-13: 9780415219815

Edition: 2002

Authors: Diane Waller, Robin Higgins

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Arts Therapies and Progressive Illnessis a guide to the use of arts therapies in the treatment of patients with diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. In the last few years arts therapies have been used in an increasingly wide range of applications with new groups of patients, such as patients in palliative care, or with learning disabilities - Diane Waller has been a driving force behind this expansion. Together with an impressive array of contributors, Waller covers treatments such as art therapy, dance movement therapy and music therapy. This broadly focused, multi-disciplinary book will be of great interest to arts therapists, arts therapy educators, medical, social work and…

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/11/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.25" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of contributors


Foreword



Acknowledgements



Arts therapies, progressive illness, dementia: the difficulty of being




In the waiting room of the Grim Reaper




The living death: dance movement therapy with Parkinson's patients




Art therapy in the treatment of chronic invalidating conditions: from Parkinson's disease to Alzheimer's




Case studies in Huntington's disease: music therapy assessment and treatment in the early to advanced stages




Art therapy with older adults clinically diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease and dementia




Real world or fantasy?




Living with dementia: interview with Neil McArthur




A narrowed sense of space: an art therapy group with young Alzheimer's sufferers




Evaluating the use of art therapy for older people with dementia: a control group study



Case vignette: Finlay Mcinally



Changing the context of care: opening up the system; interview with Kamal Beeharee




Art as a therapy for Parkinson's




Circles of the mind: the use of therapeutic circle dance with older people with dementia




Nameless dread: a carer's story



Index