Carmen Richardson, MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT, is a registered clinician spanning three professions: clinical social work, art therapy, and expressive arts therapy. She is the founder and director of Prairie Institute of Expressive Arts Therapy (PIEAT), where she develops professional trainings for facilitators and therapists in the field of expressive arts. She has maintained a full time private practice in Calgary for over 19 years and provides clinical supervision for social workers, art therapists and expressive arts therapists.

Foreword William Steele Preface Introduction I. The Expressive Arts Therapy Way 1. Expressive Arts Therapy 2. The Action of Expressive Arts Therapy II. Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy 3. Children's Experience of Trauma 4. A Resource-Oriented Lens III. An Expressive Arts Four-Phase Model of Treatment 5. Introudction to the Expressive Arts Four-Phase Model 6. Phase One Assessment Guidelines: Understanding the Child's World 7. Phase Two Guideliens: Cultivating Safety and Resources 8. Phase Three Guidelines: Trauma Processing 9. Phase Four Guidelines: Reclaim, Reframe, Repair, and Reorient Appendix A. An Expressive Arts Four Phase Model: Checklist of the Main Map B. Therapist Handouts for Organizing Assessment and Treatment Information C. Information Handouts for Clients D. Phase One: Arts-Based Information Gathering Tools E. Phase One: Questionnaires F. Phase Two: Cultivating Safety and Resources G. Phase Three: Trauma Processing H. Phase Four: Reclaim, Reframe, Repair, and Reorient I. Questions J. Further Resources