Intercultural Arts Therapies Research by Dokter, Ditty; De Zárate, Margaret Hills;

Short description:

This book is the first overarching study on intercultural practice and research models in the arts therapies. Written by international experts in the field, the volume offers a selection of diverse research undertaken within four arts therapies modalities: art, dance, drama and music. Chapters focus on cultural identity, the transposition of cultural practices to a different context, and the implications of different languages for arts therapies and disability culture, drawing on methodologies such as ethnography, phenomenology and case study research.

Long description:

Intercultural Arts Therapies Research: Issues and methodologies is the first overarching study on intercultural practice and research models in the arts therapies. It provides a new departure from traditional arts therapies education and research in that it focuses on research studies only. Written by international experts in the field, the book offers a selection of diverse research undertaken within four arts therapies modalities: art, dance, drama and music.

Drawing on methodologies such as ethnography, phenomenology and case study research, chapters focus on cultural identity, the transposition of cultural practices to a different context, and the implications of different languages for arts therapies and disability culture. With reference to primary research, it aims to help practitioners and students to develop further research, by making the mechanics of the research process explicit and transparent.

Intercultural Arts Therapies Research will appeal to arts therapists, psychological therapy practitioners, postgraduate students and other health and social care professionals. It will also be of interest to students, artists, teachers, social workers and those working for international aid agencies.

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction  Part I Communication and culture  2 Dramatherapy Across Languages: Experiences, Drawbacks and Opportunities for Dramatherapists and their Clients, Working in a Second Language  3 Touching Insights. Visual and Tactile Cultures in Researching Art Psychotherapy with Congenitally Blind Children  4 Dance Movement Therapy Training: the Challenges of Interculturality and Cross-cultural Communication within a Diverse Student Group-analytic Large Group  5 Transposing Musical Cultures in Music Therapy: Exploring the Use of Indonesian Gamelan Music in Western Clinical Practice  Part II Intercultural practice guidelines and skills sharing  6 Developing Intercultural Good Practice Guidelines in Dramatherapy  7 Intercultural Skill-sharing in Music Therapy  Part III Ethnographic voices  8 Voices within Intercultural Arts Psychotherapy Research and Practice – an Ethnographic Approach  9 Voice of the Object: Art Psychotherapy and Translating Cultures  10 Translating the Cultural Subtext: an Auto-ethnographical Narrative of Facilitating a Reflective Space Through Creative Methods for Newly Qualified Teachers