{"title":"From helplessness to a renewed sense of agency: The integration of puppets in the Art & Storytelling school-based creative expression program with immigrant and refugee children","authors":"Caroline Beauregard , Garine Papazian-Zohrabian , Cécile Rousseau","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2024.102124","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The distress experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic can add to the already stressful experience of migration for children and their family, having serious short-term and long-term impact on their mental health and meaning-making processes. Since creativity acts as a protective buffer for children and support their adjustment, the implementation of school arts-based interventions can help support the recovery of children and promote their coping and adaptive strategies. Through the case study of a 7-year-old Syrian refugee, this article presents how a young girl invested the <em>Art & Storytelling</em> school-based creative expression program to regain a sense of agency and control in a (post-)crisis context. Based on the images she created during the workshops as well as on the individual and group observational field notes recorded by workshop facilitators, the case study highlights the child’s creative process and its relationship to the creation of meaning and her developing sense of agency. It focuses especially on how the girl integrated puppets into her own creative process to regain a sense of agency and control over her life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102124"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197455624000091/pdfft?md5=18dfa331ddee825349877a692c6d5322&pid=1-s2.0-S0197455624000091-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139749646","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":"The impact of group art therapy in post-acute cancer care: A longitudinal qualitative study","authors":"Patricia Fenner , Tess Crane , Libby Byrne , Fiona Scottney , Tammy Boatman , Margot J. Schofield","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102122","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102122","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This qualitative study explored the impact of an eight session group art therapy programme on the lived experiences of adults in the post-acute treatment phase of cancer care. The longitudinal design involved data collection at three time points: pre, mid and post programme over a span of three months. In-depth individual art-based interviews, informed by Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), were held with eight participants over the three time periods to explore their experiences of and reflections on the art therapy programme and its role in their post-cancer recovery. Thematic analysis of the interviews using the IPA method revealed five overarching themes: the dynamic function of visual metaphor in the image; how the process of art making and experiences with different art materials leads to personal insight and the re-invention of identity; how confrontation with uncertainty supports the development of a new version of the self; the role of the group in promoting personal change; and the role of the art therapist in supporting experiences of safety and the development of group rapport. These outcomes also extend how group art therapy in the post-acute cancer treatment phase may be able to contribute to post-traumatic growth in adult survivors of cancer.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197455624000078/pdfft?md5=9ea0f1af8b59299deaebf020ff1b6d08&pid=1-s2.0-S0197455624000078-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139664354","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":"Human rights education experience for human rights sensitivity among Korean creative arts therapists: A focus on art and music therapists","authors":"Soyeon Kong , KyeongA Han","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102125","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102125","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The purpose of this study is to provide direction and highlight implications for human rights education for creative arts therapists by exploring their experiences of human rights education designed to promote human rights sensitivity. Six creative arts therapists were recruited to participate in focus group interviews conducted online between August and September 2022. Additional interview data were collected until February 2023, and the data were transcribed afterward. This paper presents the qualitative part of a descriptive sequential mixed design. Qualitative analysis was performed to analyze the content, and a total of 5 main and 15 subthemes were identified. Taking the improvement in human rights sensitivity via education as the central phenomenon, we identified a pathway from expressing human rights sensitivity to directing human rights education for creative arts therapists. This pathway involved a factor that inhibited human rights sensitivity and a deficiency in human rights education. The results underscore the importance of supporting creative arts therapists in their occupational competencies by improving their sensitivity toward human rights and delivering human rights education that is aligned with their professional characteristics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102125"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139897324","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}
Maimounah Hebi , Johanna Czamanski-Cohen , Faisal Azaiza , Karen L. Weihs
{"title":"Art and emotion processing among arab breast cancer survivors: An exploratory study","authors":"Maimounah Hebi , Johanna Czamanski-Cohen , Faisal Azaiza , Karen L. Weihs","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102123","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102123","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Art therapy (AT) has demonstrated potential for improving the well-being of breast cancer (BC) survivors, but limited research exists on emotion processing (EP) of Arab women in this context. Thus, this study delves into the relationship between EP and the art-making of Arab BC survivors in an AT group intervention to provide an in-depth understanding of their unique experience. We hypothesized that openly expressing emotions in the face of life-threatening events, such as BC, might be difficult for individuals from collective cultures with a strong emphasis on social harmony. We conducted a mixed-methods exploratory study (<em>N</em> = 62) with a visual analysis of 22 drawings and a textual analysis of reports from five art therapists. Positive correlations were observed between conservation values, acceptance of emotions, values, and artistic elements. Acceptance of emotions correlated negatively with space in drawing. Textual analysis of therapist reports revealed two themes—coping strategies and mixed emotions—corresponding to phenomena observed in the drawings. The women reported that art-making in a group facilitated access to their inner emotions, reinforced personal boundaries, and provided a safe space for addressing complex experiences. The AT group also offered socialization with women in similar circumstances. We conclude that AT provided these Arab BC survivors a culturally sensitive means of safely processing emotions through creative visual expression. Further research is needed to examine if AT is also helpful to BC survivors from other collectivist ethno-cultures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139664241","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":"Power to move through: A heuristic self-inquiry of dance movement processing within guided imagery and music","authors":"Carlyn Waller","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102119","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102119","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study was a heuristic self-inquiry of the impact of dance movement therapy (DMT) sessions to process somatic and kinesthetic imagery experienced in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) sessions. Full transcripts were taken for both DMT and GIM sessions to look for themes and intersections of how dance movement processing may have impacted or influenced the therapeutic integration of GIM sessions. There were four primary themes that emerged for how dance movement processing sessions impacted the researcher’s understanding of GIM sessions. These were reimaging with movement, moving for release of emotion, embodying transpersonal experiences, and movement as aesthetic response. Intentional re-imaging with movement allowed for a continuation of the process begun in GIM sessions, which created opportunities for emotional release and integration of self. Movement was a way of generating artistic response that helped further the researcher’s imaginal world of GIM<em>.</em> Personal reflections and implications for practice are given.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139664242","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}
Carrie A. Cottone , Joke Bradt , Girija Kaimal , E. Stephanie Krauthamer Ewing , Kim Smith-Whitley , Esther Dreifuss-Kattan , Brittnee Page
{"title":"Art therapy with young individuals with sickle cell disease: Understanding the clinical practices, challenges, and barriers","authors":"Carrie A. Cottone , Joke Bradt , Girija Kaimal , E. Stephanie Krauthamer Ewing , Kim Smith-Whitley , Esther Dreifuss-Kattan , Brittnee Page","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102118","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Young individuals with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) risk severe physical complications and psychosocial stressors. Art therapy is a psychosocial resource offered to youth with SCD in several medical settings across the United States. The purpose of this qualitative study was to better understand art therapy clinical practices with young individuals with SCD in a medical setting through thematic and content analysis. We interviewed 21 art therapists with clinical experience with this population. Data analysis suggests that participants utilize a person-centered approach and consider several factors (e.g., patient assessment, patient-specific factors and potential psychosocial stressors and physical complications) when determining their clinical decisions before and during the art therapy intervention. Clinical goals, art materials, and art therapist engagement mutually influence each other throughout the session. The art therapist remains flexible and adapts their intervention procedures as necessary to meet the in-the-moment needs of the patient. Additionally, data analysis revealed that participants regularly encounter several challenges and barriers related to working with this population and that the race of the art therapist contributes to additional challenges and barriers. This research study serves as an initial step to understanding how art therapists work with young individuals with SCD. Further research involving patients’ voices is necessary to better understand patients’ subjective experiences and the impact of art therapy on young individuals with SCD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102118"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139585343","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":"Trauma-informed music therapy with adult survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault: A scoping review","authors":"Laura E. Beer , SooJin Kwoun","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102120","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102120","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Trauma is a phenomenon that shapes our lives and can manifest in symptoms both overt and hidden. There are myriad causes and activators of trauma: it is pervasive, and therapists can presume that the people we see in sessions have experienced one or more traumas. Across cultures, neurobiological responses to trauma are shared: dysregulation of affect, changes in neurological functioning and processing, and prolonged stress reactions are common outcomes experienced by people from around the world. Intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual assault (SA) create traumatic symptoms and responses in survivors; these can be debilitating and life-altering events. Music as a therapeutic modality offers survivors a way to process the effects of past and present traumatic events in a way that does not rely solely on cognitive processing or for survivors to relive memories that activate more stress or cause retraumatization. The purpose of this scoping review was to identify salient and current trends in music therapy that integrate a trauma-informed approach to working with women-identifying survivors of IPV and SA. Findings indicate a lack of continuity in theoretical and practical approaches. A theme of resiliency arose, and therapeutic experiences of songwriting, clinical improvisation, and active music making emerged as primary foci for clinical work.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139646098","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":"Beneficial and harmful music for substance use disorder clients: Implementation of the musical presentation technique","authors":"Moshe Bensimon","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102121","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102121","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research shows that while music has potential therapeutic benefits for people coping with substance use disorder (SUD), it also has potential to hinder recovery by inducing substance cravings. This issue is especially important regarding formerly incarcerated individuals (FIIs), for whom the rate of drug-related death due to SUD is particularly high. This qualitative study explored the meaning of a music-based intervention for FIIs and examined its potential benefits and harm. Intervention included a short-term group music intervention for 15 FIIs coping with SUD by employing the musical presentation technique. Interpretative phenomenological analysis of interviews after the intervention yielded three themes: <em>music as a way to recruit inner resources</em> relates to the ability of music to provide strength and hope and the ability of imagination to alleviate loneliness; <em>music as a vehicle for beneficial interpersonal relationships</em> relates to group support and feelings of being understood; <em>self-awareness of potential harm</em> relates to personal music that triggers memories of past substance use and stimulates cravings. This awareness enabled participants to avoid listening to such music. Findings are discussed in light of the recovery capital perspective, with human capital, social capital and cultural capital emerging from the findings. Implications for recovery programs are presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102121"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139664252","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}
Emilia de Gruijter , Hans Wouters , Suzanne Haeyen
{"title":"Perceived effects of drama therapy in people diagnosed with personality disorders: A qualitative study","authors":"Emilia de Gruijter , Hans Wouters , Suzanne Haeyen","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2024.102117","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Arts and psychomotor therapies are often part of the multidisciplinary treatment for people diagnosed with Personality Disorders (PDs). Drama therapy is aimed at promoting emotion regulation and strengthening of interpersonal skills. The added value of drama therapy has not been sufficiently examined and available studies only provide indirect client reports. Hence, we focus on what people with PDs perceive as effects of drama therapy. This qualitative study followed the Grounded Theory Approach utilising indepth, semi-structured interviews in a natural drama therapy context. Interviews were held with 19 people diagnosed with PDs, who were purposefully sampled. They were recruited from five treatment centres, with five drama therapists involved. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using a three-step approach: open, axial, and selective coding. Open coding resulted in 93 codes. In the coding process, four overarching themes came to the fore: allowing playfulness and its inherent benefits, connecting the inner and outer emotional world, understanding of maladaptive coping styles, and intrapersonal and interpersonal behavior change. The perceived effects as reported by people diagnosed with PDs provide information about what drama therapy means to them, in their daily lives and which aspects of the treatment were most valuable to them. This study contributes to the necessary underpinning of drama therapy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197455624000029/pdfft?md5=6135f9191a603bae143057bad9fe5108&pid=1-s2.0-S0197455624000029-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139505582","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":"The present situation, issues and improved schemes of localizing poetry therapy in China","authors":"Xiaozhou Yang, Huirong Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102116","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aip.2024.102116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Poetry therapy is a psychological intervention that uses poetic language as the core of treatment and has developed into a more mature psychotherapeutic system in Western countries. With a wave of research, the localization of poetry therapy in China has achieved some success in terms of macro-theory, meso-practice and micro-empirical evidence. However, the existing researches still exhibit following issues which mainly refer to the inadequate deep integration and comparison researches. These two issues are respectively caused by the incomplete mechanism of Western poetry therapy and researchers’ insufficient attention on the adaptation of therapeutic content in the process of localization. Consequently, a double-loop model of the mechanism of poetry therapy based on the transformation of metaphorical meaning could help to alleviate the issue of inadequate integrated research. Meanwhile, a followed therapeutic content adjustment which based on treatment culture comparison could benefit to alleviate the issue of inadequate comparative research. These improved schemes could contribute to advancing the localization of poetry therapy in China and provide a reference for how contemporary psychotherapy research can utilize the traditional culture.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139459496","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}