Sleep Monsters and Superheroes - Empowering Children through Creative Dreamplay

World-renowned contributors across several disciplines reveal how dreams can aid and empower children in daily life.
Children can feel powerless in waking life, a fact that is often reflected in their dreams. This book shows how to take an active role in guiding children's dreams to help grow their confidence and improve their coping skills for real-life difficulties. Contributors from across various fields provide simple techniques to help children utilize dreamwork as a conduit for creative discovery and empowerment.

Each chapter includes case studies and methods for working in practical ways with children, explaining what may trigger nightmares for children and how "monster" dreams can be guided to become "superhero" dreams. Essays encompass a spectrum of children's dreams with experts discussing dreams of trauma, dreams as a reflection of emotional and physical development, dreaming in the community, spiritual or religious dreams, lucid dreams, dreams during wartime, and dreams of death, among others. Throughout the work, the narrative discusses the use of dreams as teaching aids for use in art therapy, storytelling, and self-empowerment.

A propos de l'auteur

Deirdre Barrett is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, where she has taught courses on hypnotherapy. She is president of the American Psychological Association's Division 30, The Society for Psychological Hypnosis. Barrett is editor-in-chief of the journal Dreaming, and a consulting editor for The International Journal for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. She has authored four earlier books and co-edited The New Science of Dreaming.

Détails du produit

• Collaboration: Jean Campbell (Editeur), Campbell Jean M. (Editeur), Clare Johnson (Editeur), Johnson Clare R. (Editeur), Barrett Deirdre (Préface)
• Edition: Bloomsbury
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 26.09.2016
• EAN: 9781440842665
• ISBN: 978-1-4408-4266-5
• Pages: 280
• Poids: 680 g
• Illustrations: 3 bw illus
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Psychologie, ésotérique, spiritualité, anthroposophie > Psychologie appliquée; Livres de conseils > Psychologie, quotidien > Développement personnel; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychology: states of consciousness, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Sleep & dreams