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Coping with loss and trauma through art therapy
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This book introduces art therapeutic interventions, exercises and assignments with a multicultural approach. It is meant for international use, as a guide for professionals and volunteers dealing with the relief and treatment of victims of abuse, violence, war and nature disasters. It teaches how to make use of interventions originating from art therapy when victims are unable to express themselves with words.
Fiety Meijer-Degen (1945) is a registered art therapist, artist, lecturer, trainer and supervisor. She is the founder and director of ICTEP -1985 - center for treatment and advanced training in art therapy, Amersfoort, The Netherlands. She has experience working as an art therapist with victims of violence and war in many countries. Since 1995 she is providing training for professionals in Art Therapy and Trauma for several international organizations in areas afflicted by manmade or nature disasters. |
| Dr. Marijke J. Rutten-Saris (Guest) |
10-08-07 15:28 |
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I am really impressed by this book and thus can warmly recommend it.
This book appeals to me as a very helpful and much-needed tool for the training of local counselors and volunteers in areas of armed conflict who want to make use of art therapeutic methods in their dealing with traumatized people. Both as a first-aid in the relief of victims and as a first step in the schooling of future art therapists.
Author Fiety Meijer-Degen, art therapist and managing director of ICTEP in Amersfoort, Holland has now worked for 35 years with victims of war and violence, of sexual abuse and parental neglect, with refugees and asylum seekers.
She worked in conflict areas in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Caucasus. Her knowledge, her intense and wide professional experience gives weight and quality to this book.
Being aware of the dangers that trainers in crisis areas may have to deal with, she condenses her information and instructions to a very concrete, effective, compact and easily accessible working method.
With this presentation in a format that is preeminently brief and concise but not simplistic, she proves to be a dedicated professional with a sharp awareness of the multicultural reality.
Everything in these fifteen chapters is readily applicable. As for example the summary of basic information about art therapeutic work and traumatic stress including a list of typical reactions to traumatic experiences.
The questionnaires are lucid, very practical, compact and effective and leave room for additions that the local situation may require. The coherence between the book, the questionnaires and the actual situation of the counselor or volunteer provides a unique and practical integrative working procedure.
This book can be used in every country under every conceivable circumstance for immediate effective support of the user. Her procedures can be applied both in providing first aid and as tools to schooling future art therapists.
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