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Draw on Your Relationships

Creative Ways to Explore, Understand and Work Through Important Relationship Issues
Series: Draw On
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Draw on Your Relationships is a practical guide designed to help individuals of all ages express and understand their emotions through drawing. The book is structured around five key themes, each featuring simple picture exercises with clear goals, instructions, and ways to extend the activities. These exercises encourage open discussion about feelings and life decisions by allowing readers to explore alternatives safely on paper, fostering clarity and fresh perspectives.

Suitable for anyone from middle childhood onward, the book covers emotions related to important life experiences, significant memories, relationships, and self-identity. The revised second edition includes a new section on using The Relationship Cards to deepen therapeutic conversations, making it an essential tool for therapists, educators, and counsellors.
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This resource is ideal for therapists, educators, counsellors, and anyone involved in facilitating meaningful conversations about emotional wellbeing and personal relationships. It suits children from middle childhood to adults, with adaptable exercises for various abilities.

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Written by the award-winning author of Draw On Your Emotions, this book is designed for professionals to help people explore, communicate and learn more about themselves in light of their relationships.

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Draw on Your Relationships is a bestselling resource designed to help people of all ages express, communicate and manage their emotions more effectively through drawing. Built around five key themes, each section includes a simple picture exercise with clear objectives, instructions, and suggestions for development. The picture activities are carefully crafted to ease the process of talking about feelings and exploring life choices by safely experimenting with alternatives on paper. This approach helps to create clarity and new perspectives as a step towards positive action.

Offering a broad range of exercises that can be adapted for any ability or age from middle childhood onwards, this unique book delves into various emotions surrounding a person’s significant life experiences, key memories, relationships, best times, worst times, and personal identity. It serves as an essential resource for therapists, educators, counsellors, and anyone engaged in meaningful conversations about an individual's relationship with self, others, and life in general.

This revised and updated second edition also features a new section on utilising the superbly emotive The Relationship Cards (ISBN 9781138071018) to facilitate deeper therapeutic conversations.

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  • Draw on Your Relationships
    Draw on Your Relationships is a bestselling resource designed to help people of all ages express, communicate and manage their emotions more effectively through drawing. Built around five key themes, each section includes a simple picture exercise with clear objectives, instructions, and suggestions for development. The picture activities are carefully crafted to ease the process of talking about feelings and...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138070707

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 February 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 8 Tables, black and white; 50 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 670g

Pages: 174

About the Author

Dr Margot Sunderland is Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health London, Senior Associate of the Royal College of Medicine and Child Psychotherapist with over thirty years’ experience of working with children and families. Dr Sunderland is the author of over twenty books in child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-four countries. Her books, which form the Helping Children with Feelings series, are used as key therapeutic tools by child professionals all over the UK and abroad.

Nicky Armstrong holds an MA from the Slade School of Fine Art and a BA Hons in Theatre Design from the University of Central England. She is the principal artist at The London Art House and has illustrated over twenty books, which have been published in many countries. Nicky has also achieved major commissions nationally and internationally in mural work and fine art.

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