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Improving Memory through Creativity: A Professional´s Guide to Culturally Sensitive Cognitive Training with Older Adults
Amanda Pike
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Description for Improving Memory through Creativity: A Professional´s Guide to Culturally Sensitive Cognitive Training with Older Adults
Paperback. Art therapy is a culturally sensitive method of enhancing cognitive performance. With online accompaniments and materials for use in sessions and workshops, this book combines research and practical resources to enable professionals to improve memory, mood and socialization in the ethnically diverse older population though therapeutic creativity. Num Pages: 192 pages, 19 b+w figures. BIC Classification: MJX; MQTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
Creativity stimulates older adults both mentally and emotionally and has numerous cognitive and social benefits. Providing culturally-sensitive strategies for improving memory through creativity, this timely book outlines innovative techniques and gives essential insight into effective clinical work in a world with an increasing number of diverse older adults and incidences of Alzheimer's disease. Amanda Alders Pike clearly explains how to structure sessions and use artistic creativity to improve memory, mood and socialization. She covers everything from how to introduce art materials and techniques, to how to enhance cross-cultural interaction. Graphs, charts, and tables illustrate how artistic creativity can parallel cognitive ... Read more
Creativity stimulates older adults both mentally and emotionally and has numerous cognitive and social benefits. Providing culturally-sensitive strategies for improving memory through creativity, this timely book outlines innovative techniques and gives essential insight into effective clinical work in a world with an increasing number of diverse older adults and incidences of Alzheimer's disease. Amanda Alders Pike clearly explains how to structure sessions and use artistic creativity to improve memory, mood and socialization. She covers everything from how to introduce art materials and techniques, to how to enhance cross-cultural interaction. Graphs, charts, and tables illustrate how artistic creativity can parallel cognitive ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
288g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849059534
SKU
V9781849059534
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About Amanda Pike
Amanda Pike has taught internationally on themes related to creative art therapies. She has a Master's degree in Creative Arts Therapy from Nazareth College and a Ph.D. specialising in Art Therapy from Florida State University. Her doctoral research evaluated art therapy as a means of cognitive training and the results demonstrated enhanced cognitive performance among culturally diverse older adults. Currently, ... Read more
Reviews for Improving Memory through Creativity: A Professional´s Guide to Culturally Sensitive Cognitive Training with Older Adults
This is the book I've been waiting for. With one fell swoop Dr Amanda Pike has answered all the questions I've been asking for over 20 years while developing art programs for older people and observing the remarkable improvement in quality of life as they become absorbed in creative expression. Dr Pike argues her case lucidly and logically. She explores ... Read more