Healing the Inner City Child

Part One: Setting the Scene, Vanessa Camilleri.; 1. The inner city.; 2. At-risk children.; 3. Challenges faced by at-risk children in the inner city.; 4. Societal stressors.; 5. Environmental Stressors.; 6. Domestic Stressors.; 7. Outcomes for at-risk children living in the inner city.; 8. Behavioral outcomes.; 9. Emotional outcomes.; 10. Moderating effects.; 11. Therapy with inner city at-risk children. Part Two: Healing the Inner City Child.; 12. Hear me sing: Group song-writing with inner city, at-risk children, Vanessa Camilleri.; 12. Lifesongs: Music therapy with adolescents in foster care, Diane Austin.; 13. Can you play with me? How music therapy and play help inner city children to heal when dealing with trauma, grief and loss, Juliane Kowski.; 14. Honoring Timothy's spirit: The use of mural making to express, process, and overcome grief and loss, Dan Summer.; 15. The architecture of self-expression: Creating community through art with children on Chicago's south side, Dorothy McGuire.; 16. Space of her own: An art-based mentoring program for girls, Linda Odell.; 17. Art for anger: An eight week anger management art therapy group for adolescent women, Ashley Dorr.; 18. Prevention interventions: Creative Arts Therapies to address violence prevention and school retention, Janet Long and Laura Soble.; 19. The feeling body: The use of drama therapy in incorporating social and emotional awareness and relational skills into early childhood education, Alex Dayton and Tian Dayton.; 20. Make me wanna holler: Dramatic encounters with inner city boys, Craig Haen.; 21. Finding their groove: Expressive dance movement for inner city middle school girls, Madelyn Farr.; 22. The operatic play: A drama and music therapy collaboration, Maria Hodermarska and Suzannah Scott-Moncrieff.; 23. Rediscover, reclaim and rejoice: Using the Sesame approach of drama and movement therapy with the girl child in India, Priyadarshini Senroy and Sonali Senroy. 24. Safe expressions: A community based creative arts therapy intervention for at-risk youth, Mark Bottos, Flossie Ierardi and Mary O'Brien.; 25. A safe distance: An intermodal approach to creating a country retreat for city girls who have been sexually abused, Julie Lacy, Reina Michaelson and Carla Van Laar.; 26. A child's rite: A culturally integrative approach to actualizing the at-risk child, Eric Cyrs. The Contributors. Subject Index. Author Index.

As one of the first educations in the fields of art, music, and dance/movement therapy, I recommend this book to educators, students, and practitioners. The case studies are moving, the implementation of the arts therapies professional and inspiring, and the personal observations insightful. This work is a wonderful testimony to the uniqueness, power, and validity of the creative arts therapies.