Craft in Art Therapy: Diverse Approaches to the Transformative Power of Craft Materials and Methods

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Color Plates
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Editor’s Note
Preface
Introduction
I Craft as a Tool for Transformation and Self-Care
	1	Crafting the Artist Book as Embodied, Relational Practice
	2 Healing With Fire: The Use of Hot Glass in Art Therapy
	3 From Clay to Ceramic: An Alchemical Process of Self-Transformation
	4 Demystifying the Individualistic Approach to Self-Care: Sewing as a Metaphorical Process for Documenting Relational and Communal Care in Disability Culture
	5	Emptying the Jar: Crochet to Unpack Toxic Racial Stress
II Craft as Culturally Resonant and Accessible
	6	Embroidering Pieces of Place
	7 Healing Roots of Indigenous Crafts: Adapting Traditions of India for Art Therapy Practice
	8	Integrating Traditional Crafts Within Clinical Practice: A Cross-Cultural Group Case Study
	9 Using Crafts in Art Therapy Through an Intersectional Feminist Empowerment Lens: The Case of Bedouin Embroidery in Israel
III	Craft as Empowerment and Activism
	10 Finding Our Way Together: Exploring the Therapeutic Benefits of Collaborative Craft Activism
	11	Zines, the DIY Ethic, and Empowering Marginalized Identities
	12 Alone in the Desert: Making Sense of the Senseless Through Story Cloths
	13	Empowerment Through Mentorship: Peer-Led Craft Workshops in a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital
	14 Queer Ethos in Art Therapy
	15	Quilting Across Prison Walls: Craftwork, Social Practice, and Radical Empathy
Index