Child Agency and Voice in Therapy: New Ways of Working in the Arts Therapies
- Submitting institution
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- ACOL1
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781003017318
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781003017318
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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5
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Child Agency and Voice in Therapy: New Ways of Working in the Arts Therapies’ is the product of a collaboration by six arts therapists working as practitioner researchers through professional and research networks: Alyson Coleman with Phil Jones, Lynn Cedar, Deborah Haythorne, Daniel Mercieca and Emma Ramsden.
This co-authored 90,000-word book emerged over a number of years of professional work regarding Child Agency with a collaborative research method consisting of two main elements. Firstly, the development of a shared theoretical framework, building interdisciplinary bridges between the authors’ research into children’s rights, the new sociology of childhood and arts therapies. Secondly, an identification of shared themes: childhood as constructed; children as rights holders in therapy; children’s voices and therapy; childhood, the arts and therapy; macro, meso and micro levels of agency and the therapeutic process. This methodology allowed the authors to arrive at new insights developed through an interdisciplinary lens.
Coleman and her co-authors share responsibility and accountability equally for the book through reciprocal interrogation and dialogue with the research throughout. Chapter 6: “Contexts and Collaboration” (pp. 89–103) introduces the different research projects that are discussed in the book and provides a reflection on the nature of the authorial collaboration.
Coleman also contributes sections of the book developed from her doctoral research concerning children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and the multi-disciplinary work with them (most specifically Chapter 8, pp. 127–45) which is then interrogated and shaped anew through the co-created theoretical lens.
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- Non-English
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