Overview

Expressive therapy promotes children's capacity to heal from early trauma by helping them process painful experiences over time at progressively more mature levels of understanding. Relying on excellent coping skills that have helped them survive, children in therapy are often invested in not talking due to the highly defended nature of their problems, or perhaps the need to protect a parent through silence. Alternative means of expression are often necessary. Dr. Klorer's work allows children to communicate intense feelings in ways that are natural to them, through art and play, not solely by verbalization.

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This insightful and articulate book fills a gap in the literature on working with children through the expressive modality of art. Dr. Klorer writes in an engaging style that serves as an invitation to therapists to step beyond verbal therapy into a world of creative and accessible approaches to help children resolve trauma and loss. She brings the therapeutic relationship to life through powerful cases that guide the reader's understanding of how art and play activities allow children to express their inner worlds, an essential component of healing. This is a comprehensive and sensitively written book that should be on the shelf of every clinician who works with traumatized children.--Cathy A. Malchiodi, A.T.R., L.P.A.T., L.P.C.C.

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P. Gussie Klorer, Ph.D., A.T.R., is the Director of the Graduate Art Therapy program at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She specializes in working with abused children residing in long-term treatment centers and foster homes. In her private practice, she works with children, adolescents, and families with a wide range of problems. She is on the Editorial Board of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, and is an invited speaker at colleges and universities across the country. Dr. Klorer is a registered art therapist and practicing artist, working in mixed media.

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