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Linda Levine Madori Ph.D.

Professor | Artist | Researcher

"Dr. Madori has provided a significant contribution both to the expressive arts therapy profession, as well as to the field of gerontology. Her perspective is based on a wellness model, a refreshing approach both to understanding the experience of aging and to the application of the expressive arts with older adults. Another especially thoughtful and helpful aspect of the TTAP method is its ability to encourage in-depth, long-term arts experiences rather than brief, perhaps more superficial, forms of engagement. I highly recommend this book for art therapists who work with older adults, as well as those who aspire to include other arts disciplines in their practices." --Dr. Madeline Rugh, ATR-BC, book review in The American Art Therapy Journal

Therapeutic Thematic Arts Programming for Older Adults

Therapeutic Thematic Arts Programming for Older Adults

Price: $38.00

This innovative book is a 9-step methodology to actively engage older adults and help preserve their cognitive functioning using this innovative, integrative approach to therapeutic art.

TherapeuticThematic Arts Programming (TTAP) Method will create an enriching valuable manual that effectively meets older adults’ cognitive, emotional, physical, and social needs. With Therapeutic Thematic Arts Programming, older adults explore a broad theme using a range of artistic expressions, including music, dance, poetry, sculpture, and photography. Stimulating multiple areas of brain functioning, the TTAP method promotes creativity and encourages participants to exercise their remaining strengths and abilities.

The approach also increases social interaction with its focus on dynamic group interaction. The TTAP method provides structure to creative art therapies but also encourages flexibility and individualization. Appropriate for working with both well elders and those facing illness or disability, this integrative approach is solidly grounded in brain health research, biopsychology, and humanistic aging theories.

Full of suggestions for themes and activities, for art and recreation therapists and for activity professionals. Its coverage of theories on aging and the benefits of creative art therapy also make it a useful text for students in the fields of therapeutic recreation and aging.