Creative Counseling: Empowering Health through Makerspace Innovation - Paperback

Creative Counseling: Empowering Health through Makerspace Innovation brings hands on making into therapy. We carry it in print only.

The idea is to bring the maker lab into the counseling room. Building, tinkering and inventing become part of the client work, and the process counts for more than whatever gets made.

The STIIR model

Five stages frame the book: Space, then Tinker and Ideate, then Innovate, and finally Reflect. It moves from theory into work with individuals, groups, families and schools.

Maker Therapy is also read across several theoretical approaches, to show where it fits in different clinical situations.

Who it's for

Counseling, psychology and mental health courses at both undergraduate and graduate level, and practitioners adding creative methods to their work.

From the publisher

Creative Counseling: Empowering Health through Makerspace Innovation provides counselors and mental health professionals with a framework for incorporating makerspace ideology into therapeutic practices. The book presents a hands-on approach, advocating for the inclusion of making, creating, and innovating as tools for therapeutic growth.

The text offers insight into the core principles of makerspace-a focus on process over product, practical learning, an iterative mindset, and encouragement of creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

Structured around the STIIR model (Space, Tinker, Ideate, Innovate, Reflect), the book traverses from theoretical underpinnings to practical applications in various settings, including individual, group, family, and educational contexts.

It devotes significant attention to the integration of Maker Therapy across different theoretical approaches and techniques, illustrating its adaptability and utility in diverse clinical situations.

Creative Counseling: Empowering Health through Makerspace Innovation is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in counseling, psychology, and related mental health fields. It serves as a foundational text providing robust support for students and practitioners looking to implement or expand their skill sets in creative therapeutic methods.