A Review of the Inquiry of Creativity in Older Adults
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Art Therapy and Artistic Aging
Reclaiming Elderhood, Health and Wellbeing
Copyright Twelvemonth 2021
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Art Therapy and Artistic Aging offers an integrated perspective on engaging with older people through the arts. Drawing from the writer's clinical, enquiry and teaching experiences, the book explores how arts engagement can intertwine with and back up healthy aging.
This book combines analysis of current development theory, existing research on creative programs with elders, and case examples of therapeutic experience to critically examine ageism and demonstrate how art therapy and creative crumbling approaches can harness our noesis of the cognitive and emotional evolution of older adults. Chapters cover consideration of generational, cultural, and historical factors; the creative, cognitive and emotional developmental components of aging; arts and art therapy techniques and methods with older adults with differing needs; and examples of best practices.
Creative arts therapists, creative crumbling professionals, and students who seek foundational concepts and ideas for arts do with older people will find this book instrumental in developing constructive ways of using the arts to promote health and well-being and inspire engagement with this often-underserved population.
Table of Contents
Affiliate one: Introduction
Chapter 2: A Portrait of Three Older Artists
Chapter 3: The Reciprocal Influence of Art and Aging
Chapter 4: Dorsum in My Mean solar day
Chapter 5: Intersections of Care
Chapter 6: Identity, Connectedness and Motivation
Chapter 7: Structure and Process
Chapter 8: Fine art Media
Affiliate 9: Beyond Words: Art and Dementia
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Biography
Raquel Chapin Stephenson, PhD, ATR-BC, LCAT is an associate professor and art therapy programme coordinator at Lesley Academy.
Reviews
Art Therapy and Artistic Aging: Reclaiming Elderhood, Wellness and Wellbeing, past Dr. Raquel Chapin Stephenson, is an inspiring volume that explores how the creative process can facilitate continuous growth — meaning and fulfillment — way into our old age. The book is rich in theory and technique for the practicing fine art therapist, while offering fascinating case illustrations from the author'south clinical practice. Art Therapy and Creative Aging will be a rare treasure not simply for fine art therapists but for all mental health professionals and caregivers for the elderly, likewise as a more general audition interested in inventiveness in a lifespan context.
Ikuko Acosta, PhD, ATR-BC, LCAT, clinical professor and director of the Graduate Art Therapy Program, New York University
If y'all're tired of being inundated with the multitude of negative, hopeless tropes virtually aging and healthcare, allow this uplifting, practical book flip that paradigm. Truthful to Dr. Stephenson'southward always hopeful and plainspoken presence, she expertly captures the joys of lifelong arts participation for older adults, their caregivers, and the professional artists who engage them. Threading personal recollection together with research and practice, the intersection of arts and wellness comes live. This book isn't just for people with innate creative ability. The didactics artist's kinship with imagination and improvisation frees the states in older age from the limits of memory, bringing us renewed purpose, and closer to our most divine selves. Sparks abound!
Janine Tursini, manager & CEO, Arts for the Crumbling, Inc.
A thorough insight into the empowering potential of creativity and the arts in older age, written with heartfelt warmth and respect. The stories of people involved in art therapy and the therapist's story are intertwined and linked to theoretical approaches and prove from research. The book offers useful working methods including Expressive Therapies Continuum revised for the older people and people with dementia. Stephenson's involvement in the developmental growth inherent in the aging and multifaceted relationships with the arts make this book a valuable reading resource as well for a wider readership.
Eha Rüütel, PhD, professor of Creative Arts Therapies, Tallinn University
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