Creative arts with older adults : a sourcebook / co-editors, Naida Weisberg, Rosilyn Wilder.

Other author Weisberg, Naida, editor.
Other author Wilder, Rosilyn, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Human Sciences Press, ©1985.
Description252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Older people--Mental health services.
Arts--Therapeutic use.
Mental illness--Treatment.

Contents Introduction / Stanley Cath -- Foreword / George Sigel -- Part I: The drama in our lives. First encounters / Nadia Weisberg and Rosilyn Wilder -- Stop gap: senior outreach program / Don Laffoon, Victoria Bryan, and Carol Cavan Sinatra. The "Thera-play" ; Touring ; Constructing the "set" ; The play ; Network of support ; Script sources ; Seniors write their own play ; Stroke victim enabled ; Drama as a therapeutic tool -- "...secrets I never told before": creative drama and drama therapy with handicapped elderly / Rose Pavlow. Beginnings ; Tape recording the scene ; Other stimuli ; Music as a key ; "I am march!" ; Building a group poem ; Dramatizing a fable ; Seniors and little ones ; Seniors and teens ; How significant is staff support? -- "How will we do the show without her?": dramatics in a New York City home for the aged / Paula Gross Gray. Let's put on a play ; Theatre games ; Expressing feelings ; A demonstration TV show ; Recruiting residents ; Building a holiday play ; Why improvisation? ; Integrating children into the drama group ; Advice to new drama leaders -- ...We've no less days...": music as activity in nursing home and senior center / Delight Lewis Immonen. Potential for change ; The leader's role ; Resistance ; Involving guests ; The club ; Developing group support ; Staff participation ; Reaching the disoriented ; Handling individual problems ; Senior centers -- Older adults are total people: music therapy with the elderly / Marian Palmer. The physical condition ; The mental condition ; The psychosocial condition ; In the community -- Part III: Dance and movement: a primary art expression. "Can you grab a star?": dance/movement in a senior resource center / Jocelyn Helm. Movement as a holistic tool ; Setting up dance/movement programs ; Group composition ; Community support ; Screening individuals ; A typical geriatric dance therapy session -- "My cheeks aren't rosy anyway; I can't be dead": a multi-arts program at a mental institution / Dorothy Jungels with John Belcher. A mental hospital ; We meet Roger ; Natural creativity ; Transformations ; Kinesthetic rewards ; Overcoming small budgets ; Art programs can revive human spirit -- Part IV: Significant resources: a psychologist and a poet. Creative powers within us: a philosophy and a rationale / Marilyn Barsky. Creative stimulation and survival ; Creativity: reciprocal and transactional ; Role play ; Guided imagery ; Death and dying ; Autobiography ; The importance of creative transactions in the interpersonal field -- Invocations of group process and leadership / Marc Kaminsky. The first phase: purpose ; Phase two: conflict, mediation, role definition ; Phase three: harmony, idealization of a leader ; Dependence/independence, individuation -- Part V: Writing: the word unites experience: past, present and future. Is it literature, is it art? writing workshops with literate and illiterate / Laura Fox. A serious apprenticeship ; At the nutrition site ; The right to write it ; Strategies ; A teaching instrument ; "Lessons" and dreams ; At a nursing home ; Resistance ; Group poem ; No one way -- "Renewment... not retirement!": genealogy: the records of our lives / George Warner. Retirement, a new way of life ; Where to begin ; Other family records ; Other research ; What genealogy has meant to me -- Part VI: Art experiences accessible to all. "Looks like the starting of a house": art therapy and the older adult / Georgiana Jungels. Art as therapy ; Basic language ; Different responses ; Building personal strengths ; Offering stimuli ; Common art materials ; Shadow show ; The exhibit -- Approaches to training and curriculum design in the visual arts for the elderly / Pearl Greenberg. College programs ; Special programs with older people ; Training leaders ; Methodology: with the well elderly in nursing homes -- Focusing: photography with seniors / Gail Porter. Introducing a new skill ; A way to begin ; Photograms ; A different pace ; The rewards -- Part VII: Administrators and educators speak. From a college gerontology program / Robert A. Fameghetti ; From a training program in a home for the aged / Lilly Miller ; From a community based arts center with outreach programs / Daniel M. O'Connell ; From a nursing home / Audrey Dupont ; From a second nursing home / Jeannette DelPadre ; From a third nursing home / Judes Ziemba -- Professional organizations.
Abstract A first in their gerontological field, this volume presents specific experiences and theories by 27 outstandingly creative arts leaders and therapists working with older adults in nursing homes, community centers, and psychiatric institutions. All illustrate how the techniques of drama, music, art, dance, poetry, and prose can contribute to the vitality and social interactive abilities of alert and confused, ambulatory and non-ambulatory older people. This book is comprehensive and program-oriented and will be of immeasurable help to professionals in the fields of ageing. It is a lucid guide of successful and creative artistic programs which points the way to new dimensions for the field.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographies and index.
LCCN 83022602
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