Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Contributors
Notes on Sources
Chapter 1: Why Expressive Arts for Social Work and Social
Change?
Tuula Heinonen, Deana Halonen, and Elizabeth Krahn
Chapter 2: A Social Work Orientation for Transformation Using
Expressive Arts
Tuula Heinonen, Deana Halonen, and Elizabeth Krahn
Chapter 3: Visual Arts: Drawing, Painting, and Collage
Tuula Heinonen
Chapter 4: Photography and Video Methods
Tracey Lavoie and Tuula Heinonen
Chapter 5: Movement and Dance
Sarah Roche and Tuula Heinonen
Chapter 6: Storytelling, Poetry, Writing, and the Art of
Metaphor
Elizabeth Krahn
Chapter 7: Singing, Drumming, and Song Stories: Seeking
Mino-Pimatisiwin Through Music
Margaret Tamara Dicks and Deana Halonen
Chapter 8: Theater, Drama, and Performance
Deana Halonen
Chapter 9: Expressive Arts for Transformation and Change
Tuula Heinonen, Deana Halonen, and Elizabeth Krahn
Index
Tuula Heinonen, DPhil, MSW, is Professor in the Faculty of Social
Work at the University of Manitoba.
Deana Halonen, MSW, is Senior Instructor in the Faculty of Social
Work at the University of Manitoba.
Elizabeth Krahn, MSW, is a social work counselor in her eighth year
of private practice.
"The rapidly growing field known as expressive arts emerged from
the capacity of the arts to address human suffering. Expressive
Arts for Social Work and Social Change embraces this belief by
exploring how the arts inform the practice of social work as agents
for social action, justice, and change. This welcome volume
provides readers with a wide range of examples, illustrations, and
approaches that social workers and all human service
professionals
can apply to their work with individuals, families, and
communities."
- Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, REAT, Executive
Director, Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy
Institute, Louisville, KY
"This book on expressive arts innovation in social work is
heartening, offering theoretical and practical insights, exploring
a range of arts approaches, and demonstrating potential for
individual and collective healing, empowerment, and transformation.
It shows that creative storytelling, expression of feelings,
exploration of social issues, and reflection have profound effects
for human well-being, ethical practice, and social justice. An
invaluable resource
for human services practitioners, researchers, and educators
seeking the power of arts engagement."
- Diane Conrad, PhD, MEd, BEd, BFA, Associate Professor, Department
of Secondary Education, University of Alberta
"Expressive Arts for Social Work and Social Change shows how we
need the embodied, hermeneutic elements of arts as a central medium
through which people enhance resilience and deal with social
adversity and injustice. The book is an excellent and welcome
addition to this important direction: it describes a broad range of
arts interventions (including photography movement and music in
addition to visual art), relates to a broad range of populations,
and
most importantly, contextualizes these case studies within the
Canadian context of ecological and post-colonialist theories of
person in place and space."
- Ephrat Huss, PhD, MA, Associate Professor and Chair, Arts in
Social Work Master's Specialization, Charlotte B. and Jack J.
Spitzer Deptartment of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev; Author of What We See and What We Say: Using Images in
Research, Therapy, Empowerment, and Social Change
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