TY - BOOK AU - Cropley, Marylyn TI - The art activity manual : : a groupwork resource SN - 9780863884313 PY - 2017/// CY - Abingdon, New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY KW - PHYSICAL DISABILITY KW - SENSORY IMPAIRMENT KW - MENTAL ILLNESS KW - ADULTS KW - CHILDREN KW - OLDER PEOPLE KW - ART THERAPY KW - ARTS AND CRAFTS KW - GROUP ACTIVITIES KW - CREATIVITY N1 - Introduction. - Part I: Preparation. - Part II: Session Plans. - Part III: Project Ideas N2 - "Offers skills-based activities with therapeutic outcomes. Aims to assist group facilitators working with adults with intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, sensory loss, mental health needs and older people. This book can also be used independently by individual artists, self-help art groups and group facilitatirs working with children... It does not set out to teach art skills, nor to present therapeutic interventions in formal sense; rather, it offers a flexible, non-prescriptive approach for group facilitators and members to explore and develop their own style and technique, within a general appreciation of art." - INTRODUCTION ER -