Art, Creativity and Imagination in Social Work Practice. (Hardcover)

Introduction  Prue Chamberlayne and Martin Smith

Part 1 - Use of the self in creative expression

1. Where is the love? Art, aesthetics and research  Yasmin Gunaratnam

2. Georgie’s girl: last conversation with my father  Karen Lee

3. Innovative rehabilitation after head injury: examining the use of a creative intervention  Claire Smith

4. An interplay of learning, creativity and narrative biography in a mental health setting. Bertie’s story  Olivia Sagan

Part 2 - Theoretical underpinnings

5. Smoke without fire? Social workers’ fears of threats and accusations  Martin Smith

6. Creating communication. Self-examination as a therapeutic method for children  Carolus van Nijnatten and Frida van Doorn

7. Arts based learning in restorative youth justice: embodied, moral and aesthetic  Lynn Froggett

Part 3 - The wider community

8. ‘Ways of knowing and showing’: imagination and representation in feminist participatory social research  Victoria Foster

9. Representations of violence: learning with Tate Modern  Hannele Weir

10. ‘I thought I wasn’t creative but…’ Explorations of cultural capital with Liverpool young people  Paula Pope

11. Case Experience: ‘Dancing Shoes’, A Buddhist Perspective Donovan Chamberlayne