”Using Art-based Activities to Work on Emotions: Collection of practical activities for counsellors, psychotherapists and educators” contains 30 practical activities using artistic material to reach a certain emotional result. Its content is divided in three main parts: section 1 offers technical information about the preparation and planning of the activities and about structuring the counselling or intervention sessions either with individuals or groups; section 2 represents the main body of the book and includes 30 art-therapy activities; the activities are described as they should be presented to the final client, thus offering the professionals an example on how to describe the tasks and how to present the instructions to the people they are counselling or educating; section 3 describes practices which could enhance the activities and their results and points out further useful resources for professionals who would like to expand their toolkit by including art-therapy techniques in their approach. The book is addressed to professionals, like counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists, educators etc. working with adults or children, individuals or groups.
Dr. Oana Dău-Gașpar is a psychologist with multiple areas of expertise (Education and Counselling, Clinical Psychology, Organizational Psychology), psychotherapist in Family Systemic Approach and Emotionally Focused Therapy and assistant professor at Faculty of Psychology of “Tibiscus” University from Timisoara.
Her work in over two decades in her private practice and within the Family and Couple Therapy Association Timisoara reflects her interests in promoting good practices and individualized education and intervention throughout the community. She has been working with children, adults and families in difficulty for over a decade, helping them to cope with emotions, illness, trauma, disabilities etc. in order to reach functionality and orientate them towards more rewarding life decisions.She has a lot of experience in implementing European funded projects, thus promoting change and leading interventions throughout local communities.