Arts Therapies in International Practice (ePub)

Caroline Miller, (NZ) MA Clinical Psychology, PGDip Clinical Psychology, BA English/Psychology, BPhil, PG Dip. Dramatherapy, graduated as a dramatherapist in 1991 and has worked as a dramatherapist and clinical psychologist in government services, non-government services, schools, mental health settings, and private practice. Her work has included school counselling, managing and setting up a district health board mental health service for children adolescents and their families, managing a programme for conduct disordered youth, working in schools for children (ages 5-21) with special needs, working with young sex offenders, and working in private practice with adults and young people with sexual abuse trauma, depression, anxiety, and other diagnosed mental health disorders. She has had an extensive supervision practice. She has supported many therapists to develop their writing for publication. Caroline was the inaugural co-director of the MA in arts therapy, a combined arts therapies programme at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design in Auckland New Zealand. She continued in the position of co-director teaching and supervising master's level dissertations. This was followed by guest lecturing and workshop invitations. She has presented at several conferences in Australasia and the United Kingdom. Caroline has published several articles and is the editor of two books Assessment and Outcomes in the Arts Therapies: A Person-Centred Approach (London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014), and Arts Therapists in Multidisciplinary Settings: Working Together for Better Outcomes (London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016).

Mariana Torkington, (NZ) MA Arts Therapy (Clinical), AThR, ANZACATA, MNZAC, ACC Provider, is a registered arts therapist working and lecturing in Auckland and a published author in the arts therapies field. Mariana has worked as an arts therapist for government and non-government agencies and in