Description
Coping with life's stresses is difficult for everybody, but can be especially challenging for teenagers, who often feel isolated and misunderstood. Creative expression through art, craft, and writing is a natural and effective way of helping young people to explore and communicate personal identity.
This book is bursting with art and journal activities, creative challenges, and miniature projects for bedrooms and other personal spaces, all of which help teenagers to understand and express who they are and what is important to them. These fun ideas can be tailored to suit the individual, and require minimal equipment and even less artistic know-how, so can be enjoyed by all. The book concludes with a useful section for counselors and other professionals who work with young people, which explains how these activities can be incorporated into treatment goals.
This imaginative and insightful book is a useful resource for all therapists, social workers, and counselors who wish to encourage self-expression in teenagers.
Art, challenges and projects to help teenagers understand and express who they are and what is important to them
About the Author
Bonnie Thomas LCSW is a school-based clinician, providing individual and family therapy to children aged 3-12. She has also worked in the Juvenile Corrections System and coordinated a mentoring program for young girls living in public housing. Bonnie is the author of Creative Coping Skills for Children, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She lives in Maine.
Reviews
The book is readable and provides simple, well applicable and enforceable assignments. -- Tijdschrift voor vakterapie (google translate)
Book Information
ISBN 9781849058421
Author Bonnie Thomas
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Weight(grams) 231g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 164mm * 9mm
