1st Edition

Art Therapy with Military Veterans Trauma and the Image

Edited By Janice Lobban Copyright 2018
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

Art Therapy with Military Veterans: Trauma and the Image provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and applying art therapy with former and serving armed forces personnel who have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This book brings together experienced contributors in one volume to provide the range of information essential to those seeking to understand the complexities of... Read more
Part 1: Art therapy and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
1. The development and practice of art therapy with military veterans
Janice Lobban

2. An Army Reservist’s story
Clement Boland

3. The biological basis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and recovery
Kathy Kravits

Part 2: The British Forces
4. Mental health treatment for serving UK military personnel
Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes

5. Military culture effects on mental health and help-seeking
Dr Walter Busuttil

6. Coming home
Robert Bieber, Michael Sterba and Christine Sterba

Part 3: Current approaches to art therapy with veterans in the UK
7. An adaptive art therapy model for working with traumatised veterans
Janice Lobban, Kirsty Mackay, Mark Redgrave, Sandya Rajagopal

8. In two minds
Janice Lobban

9. Trauma and dissociation – an insider’s view
Richard Kidgell

10. Bypassing the sentinel
Janice Lobban

11. Research and evaluation
Alison Smith and Janice Lobban

Part 3: Taking a wider perspective
12. Cultural collaborations
Janice Lobban and Liz Ellis

13. Art in action – the Combat Art Project
Jon England, Tim Martin and Stuart Rosamond

14. Reclaiming life through art
David Murtagh and Janice Lobban

Index 

Biography

Janice Lobban is Senior Art Psychotherapist at Combat Stress. She has specialised in military trauma for over 16 years, and has lectured on the subject in London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, St Petersburg and New York.