{"title":"Art therapist’s interventions in terms of the potential space in an open studio for at-risk children: Vignette analyses","authors":"Michal Bat Or , Tami Gavron , Dorel Pinto","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102248","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102248","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explored therapeutic interventions of art therapists working with at-risk, six to ten-year-old foster care children. The exploration was conducted with Winnicott’s concept of potential space in mind; this space may be impaired in children who have suffered trauma and neglect. Three experienced art therapists conducted a reflexive thematic analysis of 27 vignettes documenting interactions between child, therapist, and artwork/materials, with special focus on intervention characteristics and children's responses. The findings reveal four types of therapeutic interventions relating to the potential space: a) Encouraging entry into the potential space; b) Joining the potential space; c) Disrupting the potential space; and d) Failure to facilitate entry into the potential space. The challenge of identifying the potential space in some vignettes is also addressed. The discussion reviews the findings through the lens of relevant psychodynamic theories, particularly object relations, while considering the unique characteristics of this population. Limitations of this study, therapeutic implications, and recommendations for future research are also presented.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102248"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093276","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}
Jessica M. Hauck , Brianna B. Hughes , Thomson J. Ling , Kira Jones , Courtney Eannone , Shayna Saltzman , Anthony Pacifico , Savanna M. Daquila , Ting-Hsuan Liu
{"title":"DRAWS: A documentation model for use in art therapy training and practice","authors":"Jessica M. Hauck , Brianna B. Hughes , Thomson J. Ling , Kira Jones , Courtney Eannone , Shayna Saltzman , Anthony Pacifico , Savanna M. Daquila , Ting-Hsuan Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102246","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102246","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Effective treatment requires thorough documentation. Existing documentation practices may be limited when adapted to expressive helping professions. Art therapy, unlike verbal interventions, includes artistic components that traditional psychotherapy documentation formats may not capture. Good documentation must capture these components, including the selection of materials, interpretation of art from multiple perspectives, and the client’s response to directives. DRAWS is a standardized note-taking format designed to aid art therapists and trainees in learning how to record and organize clinical information unique to the creative process. It includes D-Describing, R-Reviewing, A-Assessing art made in session, as well as W-What other elements are important to the art, and S-Summarizing the session. DRAWS incorporates current research and documents elements of art therapy practice that have been identified as crucial, and may also be used to communicate information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102246"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143127808","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":"Studio art therapy postventions for long-term suicide loss survivors: A phenomenological study","authors":"Noah Hass-Cohen , Rebecca Bokoch , Sharon Strouse , Mikayla Medina , Jasmine Colon , Courtney Mims","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102247","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102247","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The prevalence of suicide and associated mental health risks for survivors of suicide loss represents a societal concern. Postvention research is lacking for long-term suicide loss survivors. This interpretative phenomenological qualitative study presents interview findings (<em>N</em> = 23) from a studio art therapy community setting. Based on suicide loss survivor studio art therapy research, four postvention activities were examined: altered books, decorated boxes, doll making, and wrapped sticks. Themes and categories for postventions were: 1. Self, person who died by suicide, other, and shifting representations, 2. Processing of autobiographical narratives, continuing bonds, spiritual connections, emotions, and symbolism; 3. Studio art therapy facilitation and materials. Specific meaningful essences were inspired by the postvention structure and materials such as page turning with altered books, containing meaningful objects in decorated boxes, physical and tactical form of dolls, and the branching form of decorated sticks. Clinical impressions suggested the possible advantages of specific postventions activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102247"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143127814","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":"Psychological flexibility in art therapy: Practice-based research","authors":"Jordan S. Potash , Tally Tripp , Chelsea Baxter","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102244","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102244","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Psychological flexibility is an important quality that is useful across diagnostic categories for enhancing mental health and wellness. This practice-based study investigated how psychological flexibility manifested over 10 individual art therapy sessions. Sixteen clients completed the Ulman Personality Assessment Procedure and art therapy as usual as well as the General Self-Efficacy Scale v2.0 and Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II. Based on the results of the measures, clients were categorized into high flexibility, low flexibility, and split flexibility groups. Qualitative analysis of these groups indicated different prevalent approaches to art making (high: shifting and meaning making, low and split: familiarity and constriction), including components of the Expressive Therapies Continuum. The study offers tentative indicators to recognize psychological flexibility in art therapy, which points to possible therapeutic factors and interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102244"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143127813","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}
Nalini Prakash , Arun Ramakrishnan , Daniel T. Vader , Sherry Goodill , Nancy Beardall , Reneé H. Moore , Minjung Shim
{"title":"Two ways to measure interpersonal synchrony in dance/movement therapy: Comparing accelerometer data with observational data","authors":"Nalini Prakash , Arun Ramakrishnan , Daniel T. Vader , Sherry Goodill , Nancy Beardall , Reneé H. Moore , Minjung Shim","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102245","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Moving in synchrony with others is associated with heightened social engagement and cooperation between individuals. Creative arts-based approaches such as dance/movement therapy (DMT) incorporate nonverbal techniques to develop interpersonal synchrony and group cohesion, and to enhance kinesthetic empathy. While DMT commonly uses Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), an analytical assessment system to observe and interpret movement, it is subject to personal bias and observer fatigue. Therefore, our goal was to explore the utility of the accelerometer to objectively measure rhythmic synchrony (RS) and spatial synchrony (SS) with 14 middle school students during 10 weekly group DMT sessions and to examine changes in mean scores for RS and SS over three time points. A wrist-worn accelerometer and Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), were used to measure RS and SS between individuals in each group. Biometric and observational data were compared to observe trends between both data sets. Participants’ subjective experiences of wearing the device during movement were also investigated. Although no statistical significance was found in IS scores across groups, in comparing the two data sets, overall biometric scores of RS increased marginally between the three time points, and overall observational scores notably increased between T1 and T2 and decreased between T2 and T3. Group 2 demonstrated similar upward trends in both data sets. This study is the first to investigate the useability of the accelerometer to measure interpersonal synchrony in DMT. Although the findings are encouraging, further investigation is needed to provide definitive information on the usefulness of the accelerometer in this context. Limitations and suggestions for future research are included.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102245"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143127812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bronwen M. Landless , Abbey L. Dvorak , Susan Hadley , Joke Bradt
{"title":"Exploring a therapeutic songwriting program with three people experiencing homelessness and their communities through a cross case analysis","authors":"Bronwen M. Landless , Abbey L. Dvorak , Susan Hadley , Joke Bradt","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102243","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The experience of homelessness is multidimensional, including joys and challenges. Service organizations predominantly “help” people experiencing homelessness, propagating hegemonic discourses and oppressive practices around homelessness. Music therapy literature regarding homelessness is scant, mostly exploring the role music therapy plays in meeting psychosocial goals. Minimal research exists that explores the role of music therapy in meeting people in strength, and challenging dominant perspectives around homelessness. Addressing this gap, I conducted a qualitative cross-case analysis to explore engagement in therapeutic songwriting with people experiencing homelessness and their communities. Three male adults experiencing homelessness engaged in a six-week individual therapeutic songwriting program, including writing, recording, and sharing an original song with audience participants. Songwriting participants completed two semi-structured interviews and audience participants completed reflections through email survey. Songwriting participants demonstrated agency during the songwriting program and assigned importance to developing the therapeutic relationship, expanding a relationship with music, and identifying future possibilities. Mutual giving and receiving were integral to the song sharing events, and audience participants responded with empathy and shifted their perspectives. A potentially harmful aspect of the therapeutic songwriting program was the development of unrealistic future expectations. Recommendations and clinical implications are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143127811","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}
Natacha Pirotte , Liliana Montoya De La Cruz , Viviana Rodriguez Gonzalez , Martina de Witte , Evelien Joosten
{"title":"Forcibly displaced adults' perspectives on change mechanisms after a resilience-building art therapy intervention","authors":"Natacha Pirotte , Liliana Montoya De La Cruz , Viviana Rodriguez Gonzalez , Martina de Witte , Evelien Joosten","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102229","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102229","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Preventive interventions aimed at learning to cope with psychological stressors and building resilience could benefit most forcibly displaced persons (FDP). Limited research has been conducted to examine the usefulness of resilience-building art therapy for FDP. The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the perspective of adult FDP on the process of change after a resilience-building art therapy intervention, i.e. to (a) identify the positive changes they experience, (b) the associated therapeutic factors, and (c) the mechanisms they believe to be responsible for these changes. An exploratory qualitive study using thematic analysis with descriptive quantitative data was conducted with 11 adult FDP who received an eight-session resilience-building group art therapy intervention. The participants identified three positive changes: (i) felt calmer, (ii) strengthened emotional skills and (iii) reinforced self. The results also highlight multiple therapeutic factors and some combinations of these, which could be possible change mechanisms. The authors suggest replicating the research to confirm and complete the results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102229"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aesthetic distance: Conceptualization and practical use","authors":"Boaz Ben-Tzur , Rinat Feniger-Schaal","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102230","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102230","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drama therapy is an experiential psychotherapy method utilizing theatrical elements to facilitate psychological growth and change. \"Aesthetic distance,\" a core concept in drama therapy, refers to the midpoint between cognitive detachment and emotional over-engagement, allowing individuals to simultaneously think about and feel their experiences. This balance enables people to experience a situation both from within and as an external observer, integrating emotional and cognitive processes. This qualitative study explored the conceptualization and application of aesthetic distance by conducting semi-structured interviews with 20 experienced drama therapists and psychodramatists. Deductive data analysis revealed five themes: (a) aesthetic distance is a multilayered, multidimensional term; (b) The assessment of different states of aesthetic distance can be done via various expressions; (c) there are different avenues to reach aesthetic distance; (d) being in aesthetic distance may enable clients to access sensitive content and experience transformation; and (e) The therapist’s own engagement with the state of aesthetic distance is an important factor in the therapeutic process. Based on these findings, we developed an integrative model encapsulating the use of aesthetic distance in therapy, including its role in assessment, intervention planning, as a catalyst for change, and as a therapeutic outcome. The model also highlights the therapist's pivotal role in cultivating aesthetic distance and its impact on both therapist and client. This study contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of aesthetic distance as a cognitive-emotional construct, offering insights that can inform and enhance clinical practice in drama therapy and related fields.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102230"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143127810","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":"Creative art therapies in the treatment of adolescents with eating disorders: An integrative review and thematic network analysis","authors":"Samantha Steiner , Mara Dürk , Marco Warth","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102228","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102228","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Eating disorders, prevalent mental health conditions, affect between 0.1 % and 3.8 % of the general population and 1.1 % of adolescents in Europe. Evidence suggests that the peak age of onset is 15.5 years. The recent and ongoing integration of creative art therapies into clinical settings suggest mental health benefits, and their application has been extended to different disorders and populations including eating disorders. However, there is a paucity of research focusing specifically on adolescents. Therefore, the present integrative review identified and summarized research conducted with creative art therapies in the treatment of adolescents diagnosed with an eating disorder. Additionally, a thematic network analysis facilitated the identification and mapping of relevant clinical themes. A database search in English and German, conducted according to the PRISMA 2020 guidelines, resulted in the selection of ten articles. A thematic network analysis of both qualitative (n = 7) and quantitative (n = 3) studies, allowed the extraction of six global themes: identity, relationships, empowerment, hope, re-signify and defence. Themes were explored and described individually and intertwined. Results suggested consistency of creative art therapies interventions with other psychotherapeutic approaches for the treatment of eating disorders. Furthermore, their apparent developmental appropriateness for the adolescent population and the potential for strengthening the therapeutic process were highlighted.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102228"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Group tele-art therapy intervention in women undergoing in vitro fertilization: A randomized control study","authors":"Hye Rok Oh , Yeo Ju Chung , Hyun Jung Do","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102227","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102227","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigated the effects of group tele-art therapy (GTAT)—namely, the appreciation of art masterpieces—on infertility stress, fertility quality of life (FertiQoL), and psychological well-being. We employed a randomized true experimental, pre-test<img>post-test control design using experimental, comparison, and control groups of 27 women (M<sub>age</sub> = 37.7 years) who had undergone at least two in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles. Group homogeneity was tested using Fisher’s exact test and repeated measures analysis of variance. GTAT involving the appreciation of art masterpieces significantly decreased infertility stress. No significant changes were observed in infertility stress for the comparison and control groups. GTAT significantly improved FertiQoL. Regarding scores in the subscales of FertiQoL, emotional FertiQoL and mind<img>body FertiQoL scores improved significantly, while social FertiQoL and relational FertiQoL scores did not. No significant changes were observed in FertiQoL scores in the comparison and control groups. GTAT significantly improved psychological well-being, but no significant changes were observed in the comparison and control groups. This study is the first to show that GTAT involving an appreciation of art masterpieces is an effective intervention for addressing infertility stress, FertiQoL scores, and psychological well-being in women undergoing IVF. GTAT is thus a good alternative to increase access to psychotherapy for women with infertility with psychological challenges undergoing IVF.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102227"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142593214","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}