{"title":"Working alongside: Communicating visual empathy within collaborative art therapy","authors":"Gary Nash, Michiyo Zentner","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00129_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00129_1","url":null,"abstract":"The terms working alongside, parallel artmaking, painting together and joint activity have been used to describe an innovative and experimental phase in art therapy practice that involves the art therapist’s arts-based response towards the client either in one-to-one or groupwork contexts. This method involves the art therapist’s artmaking within the relational dynamic and is done so to extend an arts-based connection with the client and further non-verbal communication through visual arts media. The approach described enables the therapist to enter a shared creative space using art as an improvised method to connect, interact, reflect or mirror the client’s art process. This article explores the scope of this practice approach and the importance of visual empathy, its contribution to clinical formulation and the role of clinical supervision in reflecting on the artwork to gain access to intersubjective experiences between the therapist, the client and their creative collaboration.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"7 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134580759","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":"Integrative Arts Psychotherapy: Using an Integrative Theoretical Frame and the Arts in Psychotherapy, Claire Louise Vaculik and Gary Nash (Eds) (2022)","authors":"Colleen Steiner Westling","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00134_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00134_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Integrative Arts Psychotherapy: Using an Integrative Theoretical Frame and the Arts in Psychotherapy, Claire Louise Vaculik and Gary Nash (Eds) (2022)\u0000 Abingdon: Routledge, 250 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-0-36772-636-2, p/bk, £24.99","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123905394","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’: A Special Issue","authors":"Gary Nash","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00123_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00123_2","url":null,"abstract":"The editorial overview provides the background and rationale for this Special Issue. Collaboration, innovation and integration are themes that are introduced and developed to provide the context in which the contributors to this collection of articles have worked together to bring a shared vision to fruition. This Special Issue is a collaboration between practitioners and researchers, supervisors and peers, who describe how the processes of creativity, imagination and healing can galvanize individual ideas and take our collective creative vision forward.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122288471","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":"Social action art therapy and the enhancement of political imagination","authors":"Jamie Bird, L. Bird, Gemma Collard-Stokes","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00126_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00126_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides research-informed insights on the use of social action art therapy within the context of working with diverse communities to imagine future responses to climate crisis at a local level. We present creative responses produced by participants of a study conducted within a community arts space. The work described is inspired by the work of art therapist Savneet Talwar and social ecologist Murray Bookchin. The creative responses come in the form of photographs of objects made by participants and sets of statements that emerged when these objects were used to initiate conversations about the imagined future of the city that participants were located within. This article’s aim is to evaluate the role of social action art therapy and art-based research within the context of the enhancing of collective political imagination in the service of democratically decided and socially just adaptations to climate crisis.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131376739","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":"Social Action Art Therapy in a Time of Crisis, Jamie Bird (2022)","authors":"Catherine Stevens","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00133_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00133_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Social Action Art Therapy in a Time of Crisis, Jamie Bird (2022)\u0000 London: Routledge, 268 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-0-36769-621-4, p/bk, £26.99","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123222004","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 Psychotherapy and Innovation: New Territories, Techniques and Technologies, Helen Jury and Ali Coles (Eds) (2022)","authors":"Jessica B. Holder","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00132_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00132_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Art Psychotherapy and Innovation: New Territories, Techniques and Technologies, Helen Jury and Ali Coles (Eds) (2022)\u0000 London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 312 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-78775-708-0, p/bk, £30.00","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133906156","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":"Response art: A resource for practice and supervision, in person and online","authors":"Barbara J. Fish","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00128_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00128_1","url":null,"abstract":"Response art is images made by art therapists to support their work. It is widely used in practice and supervision to contain challenging material experienced in session, explore and identify deeper meaning including countertransference, to conceptualize treatment and to demonstrate understanding and meaning to clients and others. Response art carries meaning whether it is used in person or in a video session. The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic brought impediments to in-person verbal exchanges in traditional therapy and supervision and offered opportunities to expand our communication skills in creative ways. In this article the author encourages art therapists to turn to their own images. Examples of response art contribute to the discussion, encouraging effective use while challenging art therapists to expand its applications. Looking closely at our tools supports their effective application and expands their potential utility.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128405477","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":"Sensory Theatre: How to Make Interactive, Inclusive, Immersive Theatre for Diverse Audiences by a Founder of Oily Cart, Tim Webb (2022)","authors":"Teresa A. Fisher","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00110_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00110_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Sensory Theatre: How to Make Interactive, Inclusive, Immersive Theatre for Diverse Audiences by a Founder of Oily Cart, Tim Webb (2022)\u0000 New York: Routledge, 278 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-00309-128-8, e-book, $35.95","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"415 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116523733","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 is the evidence!’: Developmental Transformations (DvT) theory and practice applied to art-based research","authors":"D. Fried, Gideon Zehavi","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00109_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00109_1","url":null,"abstract":"Art-based research (ABR) and Developmental Transformations (DvT) both originate and draw from the theory and practice of creative arts therapies. ABR uses response art (RA) in all art modalities to further understand and give form to intersubjective dialogue. The goal of this article is to demarcate the substantial similarities between ABR and DvT and ultimately to suggest their combined potential for future research. The article provides an overview of the underpinnings of ABR and DvT and then outlines the research design and relevant results from an ABR–DvT pilot study. Finally, a summarized dialogue carried out by the authors underscores the complementarity of the two methods.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130411274","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":"‘Creativity Is Good for You’: Responding to the needs of our communities after COVID-19","authors":"Jayne Howard","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00119_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00119_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how the pandemic has caused Arts Well, a small United Kingdom arts and health organization, to reflect on its future activities in order to be most useful in the space where arts and creativity meets health and well-being. It highlights the need for training, professional development and support for creative practitioners delivering participatory creative opportunities, recognizing the precarious work environment and emotionally demanding contexts in which they often work. Arts Well is also developing a campaign to raise awareness of the value of engaging in the arts and well-making to protect and improve health and well-being.","PeriodicalId":117252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts & Health","volume":"408 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122735527","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}