Arts in Psychotherapy最新文献

{"title":"Mechanisms of change in dance/movement therapy and their neural correlates: A theoretical framework","authors":"Rebekka Dieterich-Hartwell ,&nbsp;Rebecca Barnstaple ,&nbsp;Cecilia Fontanesi","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102389","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102389","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dance/movement therapy (DMT), at the intersection of creative arts therapies and somatic therapies, has been difficult to pin down due to a lack of an official theoretical framework. The objectives of this study were thus to identify the therapeutic factors that are unique to DMT, explore their neural correlates, and develop a theoretical framework of proposed mechanisms of change. Through an in-depth literature review of DMT publications and a synthesis of the findings we identified five main elements or mechanisms of change with multiple subcategories each: 1. Connection through movement, 2. Emotional regulation through movement, 3. Body sensing and being, 4. Creative movement expression, and 5. Meaning making through movement. We further considered these in relation to ongoing neurobiological inquiries and research and suggested connected neural patterns. One of the implications of this study is a call to interdisciplinary efforts, incorporating embodied, creative and relational modalities into scientific (neuroscience) research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102389"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145623032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Structured dance movement therapy for depersonalization-derealization disorder","authors":"L.S. Merritt Millman ,&nbsp;Elaine C.M. Hunter ,&nbsp;Devin B. Terhune ,&nbsp;Guido Orgs","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102374","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><em>Depersonalization-derealization disorder</em> (DDD) frequently includes a sense of bodily detachment such as being unable to feel one’s body, with a lack of awareness of bodily sensations. This suggests that body-focused interventions may be efficacious in addressing depersonalization-derealization (DD) symptoms. We developed two dance/movement tasks with an aim to reduce DD symptoms either through dance exercise by raising the salience of bodily signals (DE task) or by training body awareness through paying attention to bodily signals (BA task). Individuals with DDD (<em>n</em> = 18) and non-clinical controls (<em>n</em> = 14) performed both tasks individually in a cross-over design. Assessments included DD symptom severity, interoception, mindfulness, proprioceptive accuracy, interval timing, and body vigilance, before, during and after the tasks. At baseline, DDD participants exhibited significantly higher temporal precision but significantly lower interoceptive awareness, mindfulness and visual proprioceptive accuracy compared to controls. No significant group differences were found for interoceptive accuracy or sensibility. Both dance tasks reduced the severity of DD symptoms, overall and anomalous bodily experiences, in the DDD group. Within-subject correlations in the DDD group showed that a decrease in symptoms were associated with task-specific (BA) elevations in mindfulness. Objective measures of task performance corroborated physiological task differences, with the DE task involving a higher average heart rate and more body movements than the BA task. These results provide further support for individual, structured dance/movement as an efficacious tool to reduce symptoms in DDD by promoting mindful engagement with the body, and highlight the possibility and importance of tailoring dance-based interventions to specific symptoms and disorders.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145525375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Professional development of creative arts therapists: Foundations, experiences and paths","authors":"Joana Machorrinho ,&nbsp;Luana Prado ,&nbsp;Graça Duarte Santos","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102358","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102358","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Creative arts therapists are interdisciplinary professionals with diverse backgrounds and fields of intervention, required to be experts at integrating expressive-creative processes with the therapeutic process. Due to the complexity and duality of this work, and the multiple influences they experience, the professional identity of creative arts therapists has been under discussion, mainly in countries where the profession is recognized and professional institutions established. The objective of this study was to explore the foundations, characteristics and paths of the professional identity of creative arts therapists in a country where the profession is not yet recognized.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Content analysis of semi-structured interviews with beginners and senior arts therapists working in Portugal.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Six themes emerged: Training conditioning, Practice conditioning, Creative and Expressive path, Therapeutic path, Intervention, and Self-Reflection. Participants mentioned social and personal influences on their path, including family, creative-expressive aspects and personal therapy. Arts were the main theoretical foundations referenced by the participants, with emphasis on drama and movement, and within psychology, mainly dynamic and group approaches. The main guides of professional practice are the patients they work with, highlighting the therapeutic relationship. Other relationships are also highly relevant as motivators for self-reflection, especially those with colleagues. The main conflicts regarding professional identity occur in the art and therapy axis, while the main point of cohesion is between personal and professional life.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>These results are crucial for shaping both academic training and professional practice, ensuring the continued growth and recognition of arts therapy as a vital profession in Portugal.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102358"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145020285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparing live and recorded music on mood, pain, and bond in adults on an inpatient medical unit: A randomized pilot study","authors":"Tanner Olsen,&nbsp;Michael J. Silverman","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102386","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102386","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although music can be beneficial for adults in medical settings, there is a need to compare the effects of live and recorded music while controlling for confounding variables. The purpose of this single-session randomized pilot effectiveness study was to compare live and recorded music on pain, mood, and bond in adults hospitalized on an inpatient medical unit while controlling for interventionist and music choice. Participants (<em>N</em> = 22) were randomized into live or recorded conditions. In both conditions, participants selected music choices from a researcher-created menu. Participants completed a Likert-type pain scale and the Quick Mood Scale at pre- and posttest and the bond subscale from the Working Alliance Inventory – Short Form at posttest. Repeated-measures analyses of variance indicated significant favorable within-group changes in pain, wide awake/drowsy, relaxed/anxious, cheerful/depressed, and well-coordinated/clumsy subscales. Mean change differences tended to be slightly larger in the live music condition than the recorded music condition for pain, wide awake/drowsy, cheerful/depressed, and well-coordinated/clumsy. The recorded music condition had a significantly greater impact in the relaxed/anxious subscale. The live condition tended to have a slightly more favorable mean posttest bond score. A single live or recorded music session can significantly impact pain and mood in adults hospitalized on an inpatient medical unit. By using song menus and the same interventionist, the authors isolated and compared some of the effects of live and recorded music. Implications for clinical practice, limitations, and suggestions for future research are provided.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102386"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145579175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Private space: The setting for the work of artists and psychotherapists","authors":"David Lester","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102366","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102366","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article compares the private space of artists with the clinical setting of therapists. The Jungian prism of visionary creativity is used to elucidate the kind of dream state that is enabled from within such a private space. Presenting a psychological perspective on the artist’s intuitive approach to the development and protection of the creative process, this discussion offers the therapist a glimpse into the artistic sensibility of many clinicians, such as Freud, Bion and Ogden, who are engaged in the cultivation of a quiet state of mind.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102366"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145267378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Scenic understanding’ as a methodological concept for change in psychodynamic music therapy","authors":"Gitta Strehlow","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102391","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102391","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The interdisciplinary methodological concept of ‘scenic understanding’ developed by German psychoanalyst Lorenzer is demonstrated theoretically and practically using case vignettes from psychodynamic music therapy. This methodological and epistemological approach is based on the analysis of unconscious scenes that are created as intersubjective and dynamic constructions by both patient and (music)therapist taking into account the sociocultural context. ‘Scenic understanding’ focuses on relationships that are characterised by both sensual-symbolic and symbolic-linguistic interactions. Sensual-symbolic forms of interaction cannot be put into words. These are sensual experiences that can be expressed through arts forms such as music. Three case vignettes are used to illustrate and interpret the sensual-symbolic forms of interaction in musical actions. The structural similarities between the mutual sensual-musical relationship between patient and therapist and the situation of an infant are highlighted in the case vignettes as a decisive feature of ‘scenic understanding’. The methodological concept of ‘scenic understanding’ is crucial as a mechanism for change, as it enables inner problems to be grasped scenically as situation-specific characteristics, processed musically and/or verbally, and ultimately enables patients to develop further.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102391"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145623030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thickening role theory: A fat roles taxonomy expansion","authors":"Shoshana T. Glick","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102372","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102372","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fatness is frequently pathologized or treated as a moral failing, rather than acknowledged as a socially marginalized identity. This study addresses a gap in drama therapy literature by expanding Robert Landy’s role taxonomy to better reflect the lived experiences of individuals who identify as fat. Grounded in a constructivist, social justice-informed framework, this research used a qualitative approach to explore the roles associated with fat identity. An anonymous online survey gathered narrative responses from North American participants (<em>N</em> = 116) who self-identified as fat. Through reflexive grounded theory thematic analysis, 19 distinct roles were identified that are not adequately captured in Landy’s original taxonomy, underscoring how dominant cultural perspectives can perpetuate marginalization by shaping theoretical frameworks that overlook lived experiences outside normative identities. These roles reflect the complex, often contradictory ways participants experience and navigate fatness—highlighting internalized stigma, societal pressure, body-based identity, and performative expectations. The study supports the necessity of expanding existing therapeutic frameworks to better address marginalized experiences. The resulting role taxonomy is intended as an evolving clinical tool for use in role method and other drama therapy practices. It may support deeper insight for clients exploring body image, sizeism, and identity, and can be used alongside other role expansions to accommodate intersectionality. The findings underscore the importance of treating fatness as a valid identity and encourage clinicians to adapt role-based interventions in ways that affirm and include clients whose experiences fall outside of traditional role taxonomies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102372"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145424364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Holding the Space\": An art therapy open studio for preadolescent war evacuees as an analytic third","authors":"Irit Birger Sagiv ,&nbsp;Einat Metzl ,&nbsp;Tova Goren ,&nbsp;Keren Sahar ,&nbsp;Rachel Sussman ,&nbsp;Shosh Indyk","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102364","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102364","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, six art therapists utilize an art-based focus group to explore their experience of facilitating an Open Studio in the context of mass trauma. The Open Studio, in this case, was formed to serve as a non-directive art-making healing space for preadolescent war evacuees. First, the literature review focuses on the conceptualizations of mutual recognition and the analytic third and their relevance to the Open Studio model for shared trauma processing. Second, using interpretative phenomenological analysis and visual analysis as the multimodal approach (Boden et al., 2019), the therapists' art responses and verbal reflections that were thematically analyzed are presented. The finding highlighted the shared group experiences for both the participants and therapists. Challenges and advantages arose from working within an ongoing and shared traumatic reality of war, as did the art therapists’ role when operating as members of a team. Art making and witnessing art made within a communal space appeared to support the emergence of the analytic third, in which multiple opportunities for profound mutual recognition, self-exploration, and connections played out despite and because of the context and setting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102364"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145221443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Finding myself in 10 weeks: An SEL-based art therapy program for out-of-school youth","authors":"Young-Ok Lee ,&nbsp;Hae-Mi Jung ,&nbsp;Su-Been Kim ,&nbsp;Yun-Mi Park","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102380","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This qualitative case study explored how Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) based art therapy intervention influences the psychosocial development and identity recovery processes of out-of-school youth in Seoul, Korea. Out-of-school youth who have been disengaged from formal educational systems continuously experience identity confusion, emotional withdrawal, and social disconnection, yet tailored emotional interventions utilizing non-verbal therapeutic approaches for this vulnerable population remain limited. To address existing gaps in intervention approaches, an art therapy program was developed, centered on SEL's five core competencies—self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. The program was implemented with four out-of-school youth aged 14–18 years recruited from a local support center over a 10-week period. The intervention consisted of weekly 2-hour group art therapy sessions facilitated by qualified art therapists. Multiple qualitative data sources were systematically collected and analyzed through triangulation, including participant artwork, behavioral observations, participant narratives, and interview data. Data analysis followed qualitative case study approaches to understand participants' lived experiences and meaning-making processes. Results revealed meaningful changes in participants across several domains: expansion of self-awareness through symbolic expression, acceptance and integration of negative emotions and improved self-regulation capacities, development of empathic communication and social connectedness within the group context, and recovery of personal agency through exploration of creative roles and responsibilities. Notably, the SEL core competencies were organically integrated throughout the art therapy process rather than developing in isolation, functioning as key facilitating factors for holistic psychosocial growth. Therefore, preliminary evidence from this study suggests that SEL-based art therapy represents a promising intervention approach for supporting agency recovery and enhanced social connectedness among out-of-school youth, offering an alternative to language-centered approaches through symbolic and sensory-based artistic expression.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102380"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145525326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the feasibility of multidisciplinary collaboration in Israeli school inclusion teams: Structures, barriers, and the role of arts therapists","authors":"Liat Cohen-Yatziv ,&nbsp;Dafna Regev ,&nbsp;Sharon Snir","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102362","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102362","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As schools increasingly adopt holistic approaches to education, multidisciplinary teams have become key to supporting students with disabilities in general education settings. In Israel, the Special Education Law (SEL) enables students with disabilities to receive tailored services and be integrated into the regular education system. These services are provided by multidisciplinary teams (MDTs), composed of professionals from various disciplines who work together to develop and implement individualized education programs (IEPs) that outline the support and interventions for eligible students. Multidisciplinary collaboration involves coordinated teamwork among professionals from diverse fields, requiring clear communication, shared goals and mutual respect. Grounded theory research, based on semi-structured in-depth interviews, was used to examine the perceptions and attitudes of 36 members of multidisciplinary school teams, including arts therapists, working in general education schools in Israel. Five themes emerged from the data: team interaction as the core of collaborative work, implications for multidisciplinary collaboration, features that sustain and strengthen team collaboration, barriers and complexities to promoting and sustaining team collaboration, and the role of arts therapists in multidisciplinary teams. The findings shed new light on the feasibility of multidisciplinary collaboration in Israeli special education school teams that include arts therapists. They confirm previous studies and contribute to the growing literature on interdisciplinary practice in inclusive education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102362"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145106518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}