Applied Arts and Health: Building Bridges across Arts, Therapy, Health, Education, and Community - Paperback

by Ross W. Prior (Editor), Mitchell Kossak (Editor), Teresa A. Fisher (Editor)

Edited collection presents diverse approaches in creative arts engagement, with emphasis on creativity and wellbeing in education and community development. Focussing on applied arts and health practice, research, scholarship, expressive arts therapy, community and education, it advances integrative and multimodal art-based processes. 62 b&w illus.

Author Biography

Ross W. Prior is professor of learning and teaching in the arts in higher education at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is the founding principal editor of the Journal of Applied Arts and Health and the editor of several books, most recently Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching, also published by Intellect Books. Mitchell Kossak is professor and former director in the Expressive Therapies program at Lesley University in Massachusetts. He is associate editor of the Journal of Applied Arts and Health and the author of Attunement in Expressive Arts Therapy. Teresa A. Fisher is associate professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Bronx Community College (CUNY). She is assistant editor of the Journal of Applied Arts and Health and the author of Post-Show Discussions in New Play Development.