Expressive Arts Approach to Healing Loss and Grief: Working Across the Spectrum of Loss with Individuals and Communities

Drawing on expertise in both expressive arts and grief counselling, this book highlights the use of expressive arts therapeutic methods in confronting and healing grief and bereavement. Establishing a link between these two approaches, it widens our understanding of loss and grief.With personal and professional insight, Renzenbrink illuminates the healing and restorative power of creative arts therapies, as well as addressing the impact of communion with others and the role that expressive arts can play in community change. Covering a broad understanding of grief, the discussion incorporates migration and losing one's home, chronic illness and natural disasters, highlighting the breadth of types of loss and widening our perceptions of this. Grief specialists are given imaginative and nourishing tools to incorporate into their practice and better support their clients.An invaluable resource to expand understanding of grief and explore the power of expressive arts to heal both communities and individuals.
By exploring the healing and restorative power of expressive arts therapies in dealing with grief and loss, this book strengthens the connection between these two fields to use in practice. Grounded in personal and professional experience, it widens our understanding of grief and highlights the ways in which expressive arts therapies can help.