{"title":"The Art of Forgiveness: Art-based inquiry into how art helped in the process of forgiveness","authors":"Darlene Garner Kuehn","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00163_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00163_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a condensed summary of original qualitative and art-based research from the author’s doctoral dissertation. The focus of this research was to examine how eight participants had been assisted by various forms of art to work through their forgiveness process following grave injuries and injustices committed against them. Using response art-based research, their verbal accounts, gathered through semi-structured interviews, were examined and further reflected upon through summative poetic reflection and visual art created by the researcher. In so doing, the researcher captured key aspects of how art-making helped participants and communicated those findings artistically. Results indicate that art was facilitative in many ways including the externalization of complex emotions into concrete art forms that could be accessed and transformed into finding forgiveness in the safe place provided by the art.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":" 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141676309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Art Therapy and the Climate Crisis: Building Emotional Resilience’, The British Association of Art Therapists Annual Conference, online, 4 November 2023","authors":"Carey Bennet","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00162_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00162_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: ‘Art Therapy and the Climate Crisis: Building Emotional Resilience’, The British Association of Art Therapists Annual Conference, online, 4 November 2023","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"26 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140969280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I take them on as if facts in a book’: Sex educators’ cumulative witnessing of sexual trauma","authors":"Kathleen (Kaye) A. Hare","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00161_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00161_1","url":null,"abstract":"Through a visual essay, the author explores the intersection of trauma and sexual health education (SHE) using art-based expressions from an ethnographic exploration of novice educators’ embodied experiences of SHE training. In particular, the author examines educators’ engagements with two forms of trauma: (1) self-trauma: trauma personally experienced by sex educators and (2) trauma transposition: other individuals’ disclosures of past harms to the educators. The author theorizes these engagements together as a form of cumulative witnessing – the collective, excessive consumption of violence through direct and vicarious exposures. Inspired by palimpsest methods, carbon tracing paper and photography were used to express the educators’ cumulative witnessing of sexual traumas via visually layering their words, drawings and expressed feelings about the sexual traumas that thread through SHE. The inquiry highlights key implications for SHE pedagogical practices, including acknowledging trauma, dealing with trauma disclosures and learning from and with trauma.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":" 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140222001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Innovation in the Arts in Therapy’: JAAH Special Issue event, University of Hertfordshire, School of Creative Arts, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, 22 July 2023","authors":"Colleen Steiner Westling","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00158_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00158_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: ‘Innovation in the Arts in Therapy’: JAAH Special Issue event, University of Hertfordshire, School of Creative Arts, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, 22 July 2023","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"8 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140091089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interview with Gary Nash","authors":"Ross W. Prior","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00160_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00160_7","url":null,"abstract":"This interview with art therapist Gary Nash explores his thoughts on the field, both successes and challenges, including his work with response art and as a portfolio art therapist. Additionally, Nash offers his observations about art-based research based on his many years of research experience. Nash provides some background on his interest in and approach to art therapy, response art and art-based research. Finally, Nash shares how Nature influences and inspires his more recent work in environmental arts therapy.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"128 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140276355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leanne Fried, Christine Lovering, Sarah Falconer, J. Francis, Robyn Johnston, Karen Lombardi, Lilly Blue, Julia E. Morris
{"title":"Getting creative: Using art-based techniques to identify how arts organizations enhance young people’s well-being","authors":"Leanne Fried, Christine Lovering, Sarah Falconer, J. Francis, Robyn Johnston, Karen Lombardi, Lilly Blue, Julia E. Morris","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00157_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00157_1","url":null,"abstract":"Mental health concerns present significant challenges for Australian youth. Arts organizations play a key role in promoting preventative mental health strategies through enhancing the social and emotional well-being (SEWB) of youth. However, little is known about how the arts promote SEWB and the processes and contexts through which this occurs. This article describes a 2021 workshop conducted on the lands of Whadyuk Noongar in Boorloo, Perth, Western Australia as phase 1 of a research project aimed to improve the capacity of arts organizations to promote SEWB. Utilizing tableau, lightbox activities, and focus groups, the workshop employed art-based data-collection to identify approaches used by arts organizations to promote the SEWB of youth. The approaches encompassed developing empowerment and agency, creating safe spaces, connecting, and collaborating and encouraging emotion awareness. Given the high engagement of participants in the data collection process, art-based activities will be used in future phases of the project.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"272 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140454353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embodying care: Trauma-informed practice in community dance","authors":"Ruth Pethybridge, Lindsay Smith","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00156_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00156_1","url":null,"abstract":"As part of the ATTUNE project, this article critically appraises the strengths of community dance as a trauma-informed practice and examines areas for development in relation to guidelines on trauma-informed care. In the context of exacerbated mental health problems amongst young people in the United Kingdom, meeting the diverse needs of people who attend community dance spaces requires robust and empathetic enquiry across sectors. This article presents a critique of regularly cited literature from the distinct disciplines of dance and psychology and focuses specifically on the merits of relational approaches within community dance.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139173908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What the body remembers: An art-based exploration of embodied trauma as it relates to therapeutic practice","authors":"Claire Flahavan","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00151_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00151_1","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary therapeutic approaches to trauma include an understanding that traumatic experiences are stored implicitly in the body and that the body may ‘narrate’ these stories through physical symptoms or bodily enactments. In this article, the author reflects on her experience as an art therapist at a specialist therapeutic unit, where she works with young people and families affected by sexual abuse and sexual violence. It weaves together reflections on various personal encounters with the performing and visual arts (outside of the therapy space) that have offered a different lens on themes that regularly surface in clinical work. A selection of images drawn from these engagements with the arts are discussed here, with reference to the endeavour in therapy to support the traumatized body towards healing and recovery.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134054343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"World Health Organization, NYU Steinhardt, Community Jameel and CULTURUNNERS launch the Jameel Arts & Health Lab to measure the impact of the arts on health","authors":"Teresa A. Fisher","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00152_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00152_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: World Health Organization, NYU Steinhardt, Community Jameel and CULTURUNNERS launch the Jameel Arts & Health Lab to measure the impact of the arts on health, New York, USA, 27 February 2023","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128605670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aya Kasai, Philippe Chéhère, Rie Harada, Nonoko Kameyama, J. Salgues
{"title":"La danse du détour: A collaborative arts performance with people touched by Minamata disease","authors":"Aya Kasai, Philippe Chéhère, Rie Harada, Nonoko Kameyama, J. Salgues","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00139_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00139_1","url":null,"abstract":"In May 2019, a group of dancers, photographers and local participants gathered in Minamata, Japan, a community affected by industrial mercury pollution since the 1950s. Philippe Chéhère, Julie Salgues and the Minamata Dance Collective conducted a series of dance sessions with citizens, students, dancers and people touched by Minamata disease in various places of significance in Minamata and explored the potential of movement and its transformation in people and the environment. Through choreographic poetry, they explored the site and the story of Minamata involving 180 people, using dance as a modality of encounter and dialogue. The ten-day dance project culminated in a participatory performance at Minamata Memorial. This case study documents the process of participatory arts by interweaving history, photographs and participants’ voices.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134050489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}