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Edited collection presents diverse approaches in creative arts engagement, with emphasis on creativity and wellbeing in education and community development. Focussing on applied arts and health practice, research, scholarship, expressive arts therapy, community and education, it advances integrative and multimodal art-based processes. 62 b&w illus.
About the author
Professor Emeritus Ross W. Prior is the founding principal editor of the Journal of Applied Arts & Health, established in 2010. He is retained by the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom. He is author of numerous publications including his books Teaching Actors: Knowledge Transfer in Actor Training (Intellect, 2012), Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching: Multidisciplinary Approaches across the Arts (Intellect, 2018) and Applied Arts and Health: Building Bridges across Arts, Therapy, Health, Education, and Community (Intellect, 2022). Professor Prior is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College, fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, member of the Australian College of Educators and principal fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Contact: University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LY, UK.
Professor Mitchell Kossak (Ph.D., LMHC, REAT) is the associate editor for the Journal of Applied Arts & Health. He is also a professor and former director in the Expressive Therapies Programme at Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and past president for the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. He is a licensed clinical counsellor and registered expressive arts therapist. He has presented his work and research on rhythmic attunement, improvisation, psychospiritual and community-based approaches to working with trauma at conferences nationally and internationally and is the author of Attunement in Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward an Understanding of Embodied Empathy (2nd ed., Charles C Thomas, 2021).
Contact: Lesley University, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Teresa A. Fisher is a doctoral candidate in the educational theatre programme at New York University. A former mental health counsellor and play therapist, Teresa’s interest is in using theatre to explore how we understand our bodies, focusing on obesity. She is an educator, theatre artist, and an administrator. She is also the Production Manager/Administrator for the Program in Educational Theatre’s New Plays for Young Audiences summer series for the New York City Arts in Education Roundtable.
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Edited collection presents diverse approaches in creative arts engagement, with emphasis on creativity and wellbeing in education and community development. Focussing on applied arts and health practice, research, scholarship, expressive arts therapy, community and education, it advances integrative and multimodal art-based processes. 62 b&w illus.
