Body image is constantly evolving and impacted by thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that are integrated over a lifetime. This book examines how the development of a sense of self and body, and the social, cultural and situational factors responsible for that shaping, are understood through a therapeutic lens.
Intended for practicing art therapists to enhance their understanding and treatment of body image within their work, this book applies contemporary research in neuroscience and diverse clinical populations. With a specific focus on body image in medical settings, eating disorder treatment, and trauma - including chapters on amputations, sex trafficking, military trauma, queer body image, postpartum bodies and oncology - each chapter will include an understanding of body image within the population, art therapy approaches to addressing body image, best practices and clinical case examples.
How can we understand body image through a therapeutic lens? Using up-to-date research in neuroscience and diverse clinical populations, this is a comprehensive and practical overview for practicing clinicians, with a specific focus on medical settings, eating disorder treatment, and trauma, with clinical case examples.
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An extremely important addition to our field. While covering new ground in the realm of eating disorders, it also explores how body image is impacted by human phenomena such as gender, various forms of trauma, and medical conditions. This is a fascinating book, and one that I expect to turn to often in both of my roles as art therapist and mental health counselor. -- Susan Clark LPCC-S, LPAT
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Comprehensive and practical overview of theory and directives with case examples in treating body image in art therapy.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Dedication
List of Figures
List of Tables
Contributors
Introduction- Eileen Misluk-Gervase, Heidi N. Moffatt, Taylor McLane
Chapter I: Mental Freedom and Social Power: Defining Positive Body Image - Eileen Misluk-Gervase
Chapter II. Body Image in Clients with Eating Disorders: An Overview- Taylor McLane
Chapter III. Neuroscience Informed Art Therapy for Clients with Eating Disorders - Eileen Misluk-Gervase
Chapter IV. Returning the Body to Safety: Somatic, Nature-Attuned Art Therapy with Eating Disordered Adult Trauma Survivors - Liza Hyatt
Chapter V. Trauma and the Body: Relationships Between Art and Experience - Rachel Feldwisch & Eileen Misluk-Gervase
Chapter VI. Treating Body-based Trauma of Sex Trafficking through Art Therapy - Mary K. Kometiani & Cynthia Wilson
Chapter VII. Body Image: From the Victim's Lens - Linda Adeniyi
Chapter VIII. Using Art Therapy to Address Body Image with Queer Clients - Chelsea Leeds
Chapter IX. Art Therapy with Veterans Who Have Experienced a Combat-related Amputation - Deborah Elkis-Abuhoff & Morgan Gaydos
Chapter X. Body Image During Peri/postpartum Period: Reconciling Grief and Betrayal - Mother and Body - Utilizing Creative Arts Therapy - Alison Silver
Chapter XI. Body Image in Children who Encounter Medical Conditions and Hospitalizations - Joan Alpers
Chapter XII. Adolescents and Body Image in Medical Settings - Michelle Itczak
Chapter XIII. Effective Methods for Art Therapists Partnering with Breast Cancer Survivors to Improve Body Image and Quality of Life: A Literature Review - Heidi Moffatt
Chapter XIV. Exploring Male Body Image and Considerations for Men with Cancer in Art Therapy - Charlie Marshall
Eileen Misluk-Gervase is an art therapist, counselor, and certified eating disorder specialist who specializes in working with individuals with eating disorders and body image concerns. Taylor McLane is an art therapist and counselor who provides mental health services for veterans at the Department of Veterans Affairs: Northern Indiana Healthcare System. Heidi N. Moffatt, MA, LMHC, ATR-BC, CEC, serves at the intersection of medical and mental health, helping clients improve quality of life and overall well-being.
