Art Therapy in the Early Years

Art therapy with infants, toddlers and their families is an exciting and developing area of practice.

Julia Meyerowitz-Katz is a Jungian Analyst and Art Psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney. Dean Reddick is an Art Psychotherapist with fifteen years' experience working with children and families in a variety of settings. He currently works in a nursery school and a primary school in London.

List of illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Section 1. Individual art therapy with infants and toddlers 1 An Odd Mirror 2. On mark making and leaving a mark. Processing the experience of art therapy with preschool children. 3 'Cheerful and not Cheerful': Art Psychotherapy on a Paediatric Ward. 4. 'I Do Dots...' Art Therapy with Australian Aboriginal Children Section 2. Family and dyad art therapy with infants, toddlers and their parents 5. Transitions: Moving from Infancy to latency through symbolisation and the acquisition of language 6. The imprint of another life: working with siblings recently placed for adoption 7. Amazing Mess: Mother's get in touch with their infants through the vitality of painting together 8. The crisis of the cream cakes. An infant's food refusal as a representation of intergenerational trauma Section 3. Group art therapy with infants and toddlers 9. Building a fort: art therapy with a group of toddlers going through the adoption process 10. Making waves. An art psychotherapist's retrospective review of counter transference drawings made in a preschool setting 11 Side-by-side: An early years art therapy group with a parental group alongside Conclusion Notes on Contributors Index