Art that Tells the Truth Creative Methods in Guidance and Counselling

Introduction—Art that Tells the Truth: Creative Methods in Guidance and Counselling

Reinekke Lengelle, Deirdre Hughes and Liane Hambly

1. Embodied Theater Ecology: illuminating the gap through bridging depth psychology's encounter with performative inquiry

Kirsten Frantzich and Lynn Fels

2. Is poetry therapy an appropriate intervention for clients recovering from anorexia? A critical review of the literature and client report

Christine E. Ramsey-Wade and Ellen Devine

3. The warm bathwater of working life slowly ebbing away: retirement stories and writing for therapeutic purposes

Jeannie K. Wright

4. Enter centre stage, the case study … 

Deborah A. Lee

5. Walking in a fairy tale forest in search of a second primitivity with the help of Little Red Riding Hood

Michiel de Ronde

6. Cures for the heart: a poetic approach to healing after loss

Patricia A. McClocklin and Reinekke Lengelle

7. Construction of narrative identity based on paintings

Katarzyna Garwolińska, Piotr K. Oles and Anna Gricman

8. Art dialogue methods: phronèsis and its potential for restoring an embodied moral authority in local communities

Heidi S. C. A. Muijen and René Brohm

9. Arts for the blues – a new creative psychological therapy for depression

Ailsa Parsons, Joanna Omylinska-Thurston, Vicky Karkou, Julianne Harlow, Shelly Haslam, Jessica Hobson, Kerry Nair, Linda Dubrow-Marshall, Scott Thurston and Julia Griffin

10. Towards a deeper integration of creative methods in counselling: some thoughts about frameworks for practice

Valerie Thomas

11. Inter-professional learning: initial observations of the art psychotherapy tools used in the post-qualifying postgraduate training in counselling children and young people

Blanka Hubena and Judith Mulcahy

12. Career assessment and creativity: potential complementarity or a contradiction in terms?

Mark Watson and Mary McMahon

13. The vocational ID: connecting life design counselling and personality systems interaction theory

Marc Schreiber, Adrian Gschwend and Marie-Louise Susanne Iller

14. Use of narratives and collage in the exploration of the self and the meaning of a career

Anne Chant

15. Bridging cultural divides with the power of poetry: an educator’s reflection

Caylee Kreller

16. Dialogical Temporal Chair Technique

Małgorzata Łysiak

17. Innovative career construction counselling for a creative adolescent

Jacobus Gideon Maree

18. The philosophy of self-care, individuation and psychodrama: exploring creative means to encountering the “unknown other” in self

Barbara A. Schellhammer

19. Standards of performance and aesthetics in counselling and beyond

Morten Nissen

20. Transforming career stories through poetry: a group-based career counselling intervention

Esther Wafula

Biography

Reinekke Lengelle is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Athabasca University, Canada, and a Researcher at The Hague University, The Netherlands. Her book Writing the Self in Bereavement: A Story of Love, Spousal Loss, and Resilience won the Best Book Award for Ethnography in 2021 and the International Qualitative Inquiry Book Award in 2022.

Deirdre Hughes is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, Institute for Employment Research (IER) in Coventry, England. She is an international careers practitioner researcher and senior policy adviser. She led and co-edited an international series of Special Issue Journals on behalf of the British Journal for Guidance and Counselling. In 2012, she was awarded a Queen’s Honorary Medal (2012) for her services to lifelong guidance.

Liane Hambly is an international career coach, supervisor and educator of career development professionals. She is co-author of the best-selling book Creative Career Coaching, Theory into Practice (2019) and works with organisations worldwide to strengthen the confidence and skills of their practitioners.