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This book brings together diverse, international contributions from practitioners, researchers and clients within the field of art therapy to inform best practice when working with people with learning disabilities.
List of contents
Section 0: Introduction
0. Power & Hackett - Disrupting Narratives: The Role of Diverse Voices in CöCreating Change in Art Therapy
Section 01: Justice
1. Royster - Deconstructing Blackness in Disability: Co-creating Freedom Spaces in Schools & Community
2. Benton, Batt & Sage - Justice: Art therapy, Power, and Change
3. Ashby & Mander - Everyday Trauma
Section 02: Agency
4. Jerwood et al. - Doing Things Differently: Working Together to Talk More about Death and Dying: The
No Barriers Here Approach
5. Rossi - Self-Doubt and the Art of Listening: A Story about Geoffrey
6. King - Finding Connection through Group Art Therapy and "Being in a Book"
7. Gentle & Calhoun - "
Art saved my life; it saved my life": How Art-making Creates Connection and Builds Resilience
Section 03: Advocacy
8. Harrison & Lizzy - Advocacy and Art Therapy: "
It helped me piece together what happened"
9. Koizumi - Finding Connection Using Attachment¿Based Art Psychotherapy in Secure Care: My Experience of Working with a Young Man with Limited Verbal Communication in Long¿Term Segregation
10. Rose -
The Creative Corridor: A Transitional Space between Arts Therapy and Educational Creative Practice
Section 04: Connections
11. Ahmed -
Creating a Bridge between Clinical and Community S
pace: A Collaborative Project to Support Belonging for People with Learning Disabilities between Art therapy and an Art gallery
12. Ng & Kwan - Frames of Identity: Unveiling Life Stories of People with Down Syndrome through Art Therapy and Reminiscence
13. Burns, Meakins & Newcombe - How Do We Hear the Voice Behind the Smile? Group Art Therapy Coming Out of a Coronavirus Pandemic Lockdown
14. Hewitt-Parsons - Revising the Rules of Social Interaction: Stories of Power, Inclusion, and Why I Don't Have a Mustache
Section 05: Conclusion
15. Hackett & Power - Bridging Practice and Research: Art Therapy with Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities
About the author
Nicki Power is strategic lead for Arts Therapies (Learning Disability) at East London NHS Foundation Trust and a doctoral researcher at Queen Mary University, London, supported by Barts Charity. She specialises in inclusive arts-based research with people with learning disabilities and using arts for system change in healthcare.
Dr Simon Hackett is a consultant art psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience working with people with learning disabilities. He is a senior clinical lecturer in Applied Mental Health Research at Newcastle University and a UK National Institute for Health and Care Research Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow.
