Arts Therapists in Multidisciplinary Settings

Caroline Miller is a dramatherapist and psychologist working in private practice. She completed her training as a dramatherapist at the University of Leeds in 1991. Since her training she has relocated to New Zealand where she has had experience of providing arts therapies in a number of interdisciplinary settings, including mental health services and both mainstream and special needs schools. In 2001 she became the inaugural co-director of the only training programme for arts therapists in New Zealand.

• Introduction. Caroline Miller, Dramatherapist, Psychologist. 1. Overview: Strengthening the Arts Therapist Identity in Multidisciplinary Settings. Caroline Miller. 2. The Wounded Healer: Professional Identity and the Role of Self-care in Clinical Practice. Mariana Torkington, Art Therapy, Play Therapy, Drama Therapy. 3. Finding My Place within a Multi/Inter-Professional Team. Abigail Raymond, Art Therapy, Dramatherapy. 4. Dances of Paradox and Role Diffusion. Marion Gordon-Flower, Art Therapy, Multi-modal Arts Therapies. 5. Music Therapy within a Multidisciplinary Special Education Team. Megan Spragg, Music Therapy. 6. Working Collaboratively in a Multi-Professional Team. Robin Barnaby, Dramatherapy, Art Therapy, and Neetu Sharma, Psychology, ABA. 7. Group Music Therapy in a Mental Health Service with Older Adults: 'It sure beats watching television.' Shari Storie, Music Therapy. 8. Considerations of Change in Play Therapy with Young People. Steve Harvey, Judy Donovan, and Tosca Lammerts Van Bueren, Play Therapy, Sandtray. 9. Shifting Lines: Palliative Art Therapy in the Home. Jennie Halliday, Art Therapy. 10. Working Together, Playing Together: Co-creating a Music Therapy Space for Young Children with Special Needs. Alison Talmage, Music Therapy. 11. Establishing the Web of Relationships: Dance Movement Therapist as Teacher Aide. Anaia Treefoot, Dance Movement Therapy, and Lucy-Mary Mulholland, Arts Therapy. 12. The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Music Therapy and Collaboration in an Infant Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. Heather Fletcher, Music Therapy. 13. Dramatherapy in a Multicultural Secondary School. Adrian Lania, Dramatherapy, Psychology, School Counselling. 14. Cloak of Care: Music Therapy in Multidisciplinary Hospice Care. Keryn Squires, Music Therapy. 15. Woven Strands: Creating a Community Support Network in Private Practice. Agnès Desombiaux-Sigley, Art Therapy, DMT, Sandtray. Conclusion. Caroline Miller. Contributors. Bibliography.

From a practitioner's perspective the roles, responsibilities, and overall creative contributions of the professional arts therapist(s), within collaborative work, are asserted in this pivotal publication. Each chapter provides a purposeful and sensitive self-reflexive investigation that results in a strategic and perhaps renewed conceptualization of one's role that ultimately leads to an informed and enriched practice. This book is a welcomed addition to our collection of contemporary mental health and arts therapy resources; a definite recommended read for our graduates.