Creative activities for group therapy / Nina W. Brown.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294).

Creative activities in group therapy -- Ethical considerations -- The group leader's preparation -- Group dynamics, group stages, and therapeutic factors -- Cultural and diversity sensitivity -- Procedures and processes for the use of creative activities -- General guidelines for use of creative activities -- Fairy tales -- Member focused drawing activities -- Group focused drawing activities -- Writing activities -- Poetry, cinquains, and haiku -- Single session writing activities -- Journaling -- Imagery -- Mindfulness and music -- Movement : dance and exercise -- Movement : performance activities -- Collage -- Melange : artist trading cards, flats, scrapbooking -- Applications : member concerns -- Group level challenges -- Group dilemma cases and creative activities.

Leading a group is a delicate balancing act of managing dynamic group and individual factors. This text provides leaders with evidence-based creative and inspirational tools, techniques, intervention strategies and the like to address these dilemmas and difficult situations.