Helen Wilson – författare

Playing games while on courses is a part of the NOLS life, and course leaders are great resources for games that work—those that are popular and are used year after year. This book contains 100 tried-and-true, field-tested games collected from and vetted by NOLS instructors: getting-to-know-you games, name games, team games for encouraging cooperation and leadership, games on the trail and in the water, and brain/creative/word games.

This practical guide to Expressive Therapies tools – a multi-modal, emotion-focused application of creative arts therapies – explains how expressive, creative and collaborative counselling methods can be offered to young people who experience emotional, behavioural, cognitive or existential difficulties.The authors share insights, principles and practical activities that they have developed, applied clinically and subsequently researched and taught for over 35 years. Chapters detail information on empowering young clients to learn mindful reflection and communicate their internal experiences using visual art, music, drama, movement, use of miniatures and language. An integrative theoretical framework is provided that offers wide activity choices, responding to client preferences. Expressive Therapies aims to foster a clients’ capacity for resilience, hope and optimism. The appetite for more experiential, multi-modal creative arts-based approaches has evolved due to a rapidly growing evidence base for effectiveness, as well as for providing multi-cultural support. This book fulfils that demand with over 70 age-appropriate creative arts therapeutic activities and a contemporary evidence base. Its consideration of multiple intelligence theory enhances client engagement and counsellor-client alliance, and boosts both therapist and client confidence.With its combination of principles and theory and practical activities, this is an indispensable guide for mental health professionals including counsellors, social workers, creative arts therapists and psychologists. Occupational therapists and similar professionals will also benefit, as will lecturers and students of creative arts therapy approaches.

This practical guide to Expressive Therapies tools – a multi-modal, emotion-focused application of creative arts therapies – explains how expressive, creative and collaborative counselling methods can be offered to young people who experience emotional, behavioural, cognitive or existential difficulties.The authors share insights, principles and practical activities that they have developed, applied clinically and subsequently researched and taught for over 35 years. Chapters detail information on empowering young clients to learn mindful reflection and communicate their internal experiences using visual art, music, drama, movement, use of miniatures and language. An integrative theoretical framework is provided that offers wide activity choices, responding to client preferences. Expressive Therapies aims to foster a clients’ capacity for resilience, hope and optimism. The appetite for more experiential, multi-modal creative arts-based approaches has evolved due to a rapidly growing evidence base for effectiveness, as well as for providing multi-cultural support. This book fulfils that demand with over 70 age-appropriate creative arts therapeutic activities and a contemporary evidence base. Its consideration of multiple intelligence theory enhances client engagement and counsellor-client alliance, and boosts both therapist and client confidence.With its combination of principles and theory and practical activities, this is an indispensable guide for mental health professionals including counsellors, social workers, creative arts therapists and psychologists. Occupational therapists and similar professionals will also benefit, as will lecturers and students of creative arts therapy approaches.

This practical and easy-to-use book enables teachers to challenge able children to develop their potential and to extend their thinking in primary science. It links theory to practice to develop understanding of what it means to be an able scientist; and empowers teachers to build on their existing good practice to build an inclusive science curriculum for able children. Special features include: photocopiable resources that are linked to the National Curriculum and the QCA schemes of work; teacher guidance on the use of these resources and how they can be incorporated into normal primary science lessons; and suggestions for assessment.

This practical and easy-to-use book enables teachers to challenge able children to develop their potential and to extend their thinking in primary science. It links theory to practice to develop understanding of what it means to be an able scientist; and empowers teachers to build on their existing good practice to build an inclusive science curriculum for able children. Special features include: photocopiable resources that are linked to the National Curriculum and the QCA schemes of work; teacher guidance on the use of these resources and how they can be incorporated into normal primary science lessons; and suggestions for assessment.

Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions combines theory, research and activities to produce practical suggestions for enhancing client participation in the therapy process. It surveys the literature on art therapy; somatic approaches; emotion-activating models; use of music, writing and dreamwork; and the implications of the new findings in neuroscience. The book includes step-by-step instructions for implementing expressive therapies techniques, and contains a wide range of experiential activities that integrate playful yet powerful tools that work in harmony with the client's innate ability for self-healing. The authors discuss transpersonal influences along with the practical implications of both emotion-focused and attachment theories. Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions is an essential guide to integrating creative arts-based activities into counselling and psychotherapy and will be a useful manual for practitioners, academics and student counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers and creative arts therapists.