Schema-Focused Working Methods for Arts and Body-Based Therapies: A Practical Guide

This book introduces schema-focused working methods for arts and body-based therapies, offering therapists practice-based tools to help their clients strengthen healthy patterns, self-management, and well-being on their path to recovery.

Containing 158 schema-focused working methods for different arts and body-based therapies, such as art therapy, dance therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, and body-based or psychomotor therapy, this book offers new ideas and tools for therapists to strengthen their client’s adaptive schema modes: the Healthy Adult and the Happy Child. By linking arts and body-based therapies to schema-focused therapy and positive psychology, the goal is to strengthen the client’s healthy patterns in emotion regulation and establish a healthier well-being.

The theoretical framework in the introduction and the scientific evidence for arts and psychomotor therapies, combined with the practice-based examples, allow for a text that is broad enough for graduate creative therapy programs and specific enough to serve as a shelf reference for those in practice.

Dr. Suzanne Haeyen is professor of the research group Arts & Body-based Therapies in Health Care at HAN University of Applied Sciences. She is coordinator of content of the Master program and art therapist at an expert center for personality problems. She wrote several publications about arts therapies in personality disorders and contributed to national multidisciplinary guidelines for treatment of personality disorders.