Creative Arts Therapies and Clients With Eating Disorders

This volume explores the role of art, dance and movement, drama, music, and poetry therapies in the treatment of eating disorders. Through 16 chapters, therapists from the US, Australia, and Europe describe background on eating disorders and creative arts therapies, client perspectives (a chapter co-written by two individuals with eating disorders), a multi-theoretical approach for music therapy, resilience-based music therapy to treat adolescents, expressive and receptive music therapy, the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, creative arts therapy with adolescents in an inpatient program, issues of the body and self in art therapy, the integration of dialectical behavior therapy and art therapy, the role of body movement and awareness, internal family systems and drama therapy, family and multi-family experiential work using creative arts therapies, and collaborating with a creative arts therapist. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Annie Heiderscheit, Ph.D., MT-BC, LMFT is the Director of the Master of Music Therapy program at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN and assistant professor at the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota. She has spent 17 years in clinical practice working with clients in various levels of eating disorder treatment. She has 25 years of clinical experience as a board certified music therapist in various mental health and medical settings. Dr. Heiderscheit frequently presents internationally and nationally on her research and clinical practice. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. She currently serves as the past president of the World Federation of Music Therapy (WFMT) and the Director of Development and Finance for the International Association of Music and Medicine (IAMM).