Art TherapyPub Date : 2022-07-28DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2095182
Julie Lusk
{"title":"An Expressive Arts Approach to Healing Loss and Grief: Working Across the Spectrum of Loss with Individuals and Communities","authors":"Julie Lusk","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2095182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2095182","url":null,"abstract":"Irene Renzenbrink’s book, An Expressive Arts Approach to Healing Loss and Grief: Working Across the Spectrum of Loss with Individuals and Communities, indeed addresses the deep and wide spectrum of individual and collective grief and the power of the expressive arts for healing. As I sit here writing this review, I think on my current clinical work with teens and adults who are grieving over recent losses; a father, a husband, a son, a daughter, a job, a home, previous social lives, and ideas about how things used to be and “should be still.” The past few years have been a barrage of news and social media outlets reporting on social and political injustices, immigration crises, world conflicts and the global pandemic. These past few years have heightened the awareness of many coming into my office of the untenability of escape from grief and loss. No one is immune. Renzenbrink highlights the disparate types of loss, expanding one’s understanding of grief; “What all these experiences have in common, although in varying degrees, is distress, disruption, and a wounding of body, mind and spirit” (p. 30). Renzenbrink is internationally recognized for her experience and expertise as a social worker, educator, author, and expressive arts therapist working in palliative care and grief and loss counseling and education. The author discovered art therapy at a point in her life when she was processing her own experience of loss and identified through her own studies “a way of working with grief that was nourishing, imaginative, and had a healing power that I had never before experienced” (p. 24). In clear and concise writing, her new book highlights the powerful use of the expressive arts in working through grief and loss, while broadening our understanding of individual and community grief. As Renzenbrink writes, “working through grief helps people to risk investing in new relationships, purposes, and projects” (p. 46). In her first two chapters, Renzenbrink walks readers through an extensive review of historical and theoretical studies on grief and bereavement. She describes the field’s initial emphasis on symptomatology and medical definitions then comprehensively highlights the main models, theories, and people involved in expanding the field. She details “death systems” (p. 30) which encompass the people, places, and times of remembering associated with death and dying. She covers various types of grief and bereavement including disenfranchized grief, and resilience and post traumatic growth after grief and loss have occurred. In chapter one, Renzenbrink introduces the concept of poiesis, a theme that runs throughout the entirety of the book. Renzenbrink defines poiesis as “the idea of shaping ourselves and our world through art making” (p. 56). As Levine writes in the book’s foreword, poiesis is a fundamental principle in Renzenbrink’s work with grief and loss, “she brings the possibility of self-overcoming to all who suffer, not by mastering the pain","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45290777","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}
Art TherapyPub Date : 2022-07-28DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2090306
Mindy Jacobson-Levy, G. Miller
{"title":"Creative Destruction and Transformation in Art and Therapy: Reframing, Reforming, Reclaiming","authors":"Mindy Jacobson-Levy, G. Miller","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2090306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2090306","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article presents a therapeutic framework to examine the continuum of creative destruction to transformation through altered book making. The rebuilding of a printed book parallels desired changes that bring individuals to art therapy, including concepts related to reframing, reforming, and reclaiming. The relationship between creative destruction and reconstruction is fundamental to art therapy methods and materials. Case examples highlight the role of destruction-transformation in art therapy and how its process can empower clients to experience insight and growth.","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47425691","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}
Art TherapyPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2113727
Ann E. Lawton
{"title":"The Catbird and the Craft Charms","authors":"Ann E. Lawton","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2113727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2113727","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47983599","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}
Art TherapyPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2073171
Elizabeth Hlavek
{"title":"A Review of “DBT-Informed Art Therapy: Skillful Means in Practice”","authors":"Elizabeth Hlavek","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2073171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2073171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46274414","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}
Art TherapyPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2113728
Theresa Van Lith, James Bulosan
{"title":"Creating Our Own Suspension Bridge Between Practice and Evidence","authors":"Theresa Van Lith, James Bulosan","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2113728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2113728","url":null,"abstract":"The word evidence refers to something that is obvious and clear, tending to establish facts and supporting a claim (Oxford English Dictionary, n.d.). The origins from classical Latin stem from the notion of being manifest of the senses and being evident to the mind. When something is evidence-based, it is “derived from evidence” or something that is “empirical” (observations and experiments). So, the additional term, based relates to the “practical application of the ... best available current research in the field to a particular set of facts” (Oxford English Dictionary, n.d.). In the medical sciences a hierarchical criterion was established to ensure that certain types of evidence are valued over another. In particular, Randomized Control Trials and MetaAnalyses are highlighted as the gold standards for evidence as they involve controlling for the greatest number of variables. Whereas the least controllable studies such as Observational Reports and Case Studies are often regarded as the more inferior form of evidence. Therefore, the best available current research in the field relates to testing a therapeutic in such a way that can produce a standardization of treatment and routine application to ensure that the delivery of treatment is applied in the same way with the same anticipated results. However, a very important distinction of how this translates to art therapy research is testing in laboratory settings versus real world settings. Therefore, art therapy research is not just focused on does this work, it also needs to be relevant, adaptable, sustainable, and credible at a contextual level for it to carry weight as a justifiable piece of evidence. In opposition to defining an art therapy evidencebase in a restrictive way, Van Lith and Beerse (2019) called for a categorical typology of art therapy evidence that values heterogeneity and bridges several various forms of smaller studies together to address pivotal questions. This means rather than solely placing the end goal of success on effectiveness, they suggest examining effectiveness alongside salience, cost-effectiveness, safeness, functionality, program satisfaction, appropriateness, and acceptance through using an array of mixed method strategies. This might include biological indicators, social outcomes, psychological impacts, lived experiences, and observational information, integrated within the one study to substantiate and support a more nuanced picture of the associated benefits along with identifying any unforeseen adverse impacts that need to be considered in future application.","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43471609","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}
Art TherapyPub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2078642
Danielle Moss
{"title":"A Review of “Foundations of Art Therapy Supervision: Creating Common Ground for Supervisees and Supervisors”","authors":"Danielle Moss","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2078642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2078642","url":null,"abstract":"Foundations of Art Therapy Supervision: Creating Common Ground for Supervisees and Supervisors is a welcomed addition to the professional body of knowledge in art therapy. Authors Yasmine J. Awais and Daniel Blausey present a timely, comprehensive map (their conceptual term) of the dimensional complexity of art therapy supervision primarily from within a United States-influenced system of helping and training. Because the book is written by art therapists from the perspective of art therapists who have navigated webs of practice, the map is specific to North American art therapists’ supervisory needs. Art therapy supervision is positioned at the center, in valid relation to sister professions of social work and counseling. The authors masterfully map out intricacies that stages of development pose for supervisors and supervisees, and layer reflexivity, cross-cultural awareness, and ethics. Having foundations from this viewpoint is critical because supervision is not just required in art therapy, it is highly influential for art therapy professional identity development. This book is a contemporary bedrock among art therapy supervision informational sources. The book is organized to guide the reader through what to expect from art therapy supervision. Authors clearly explore roles, personality, race, identity, and structural power in the art therapy supervisory relationship. Along the way they provide illustrative vignettes to give examples and complicate perspectives. Additionally, authors suggest applicable art therapy activities to process and reflect on the book’s content and practical strategies for use in supervision. Appendices include sample notes, sample case conceptualization formats, release forms, supervision disclosure worksheet and sample form, and an hour tracking sheet example. The reader is provided with approaches for a multitude of supervision arrangements and scenarios. Modeling the importance of and providing cultural context, the authors share their positionality and identities as those have impacted their professional development and learning, leadership, and relationships in supervision. Readers are invited and encouraged to cultivate their own cultural humility and awareness of how race, privilege, and power are crucial to discuss in supervision. For example, readers are invited to conduct a cultural self-assessment using a specific model which is included and explained. Theoretical frameworks of supervision are described: developmental models, competency-based, orientation-specific models, integrated models, psychodynamic models, cognitive behavioral models, and feminist multicultural supervision to expose the reader to models of supervision that make up the framework for these authors’ approaches. Readers learn about giving and receiving feedback, including conflict management, observation, and case materials like notes and case conceptualizations. The authors offer guidance for becoming an art therapy supervisor, with a","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47684610","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}
Art TherapyPub Date : 2022-06-03DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2073170
Jennifer G. Albright Knash
{"title":"A Review of “Head and Heart: Yoga Therapy and Art Therapy Interventions for Mental Health”","authors":"Jennifer G. Albright Knash","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2073170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2073170","url":null,"abstract":"consultive, I critically examined myself within my own role as a supervisor. For example, my whiteness is part of my identity and this book provided me with examples of how to meaningfully start conversations as I intersect with supervisees, clients, and the systems within which supervisees are working. As a result, I critiqued my own developmental approach to supervision, which has then increased reflection for practicum students. I offer two of the many gems that resonated for me as I evaluated my roles as supervisee and supervisor. The first helped to shape my trust in group processes of supervision as supervisees who are not actively speaking can be engaged “holders of the space” (p. 176). The second quote, “in supervision, I learned that any commonalities I had with a client, while valid, did not supersede my privilege and power” (p. 129) will undulate in my movement through roles and relationships in supervision as a steady current of critical awareness. This book has guided my facilitation and engagement of reflection and reflexivity, especially when helping supervisees navigate transference, countertransference, and parallel process with awareness of the impact of racial, ethnic, and socio-cultural differences. Readers can also use this text to locate themselves within the supervisory experience and engage in further study from any point. This book is for the benefit of any supervisor or supervisee within the art therapy field.","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48863553","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}
Art TherapyPub Date : 2022-05-20DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2066951
Patricia Marco, R. Redolat
{"title":"Alzheimer’s Disease, Grieving Process, and Art Therapy: Case Study","authors":"Patricia Marco, R. Redolat","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2066951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2066951","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This case study describes an art therapy intervention with a client diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease who was coping with grief. The course of fifteen sessions included three phases: body awareness, grief emotions, and grief acceptance. The positive changes parallel ways that art therapy can benefit older adults by promoting communication, accessing memories, reconstructing identity, and supporting creativity.","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43544841","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}
Art TherapyPub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2080433
Jordan S. Potash
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue – Resilience and Transformation: Reflections on 2020","authors":"Jordan S. Potash","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2080433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2080433","url":null,"abstract":"“Be safe” When facilitating an open art therapy studio at a drop-in center for runaway and unhoused young people in Washington D.C., each time someone leaves for the day, we seldom say “goodbye” or “see you later.” Instead, everyone calls out “Be safe.” There’s “be safe” because the streets are rarely secure and the same with some shelters. Even those who are housed navigate constant job searches and food insecurity. During the cold winter months and excruciating summer heat, these realities intensify. There’s “be safe” because there is vulnerability in being young Black and Brown women and men in a racist society. That exposure increases for young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual – and further increases for those who are transgender and gender nonconforming. Youth with psychological trauma, learning and other disabilities face even more difficulties. I have always thanked youth and staff for their well wishes that I also remain safe. For the most part, it only serves to highlight what I already know – that my White skin and my cisgender male identity insulate me from the harassment they receive and systemic obstacles they regularly encounter. This caring phrase also reminds me how I am selectively able to reveal my gay, Jewish, and other invisible identities. And at this point in my life, I am assured with housing and food, which furthers another divide. From March 2020 and since, “be safe” took on additional meanings that started to narrow the gap among our differences. At first, it meant, stay healthy. Do what you can to stay COVID-free. For the young people that I work with, this is no easy task when transitory housing limits social distancing options, the majority of jobs available are those with the highest risk of exposure, and healthcare evidenced underlying deficiencies. As the health pandemic intensified, an endemic condition in the U.S. showed itself – racism and discrimination. There were racial and socioeconomic health disparities (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021). Asians and Asian Americans were targeted as perpetrators of the virus, as online hate speech became physical violence (Ong, 2021). In the summer, the murder of George Floyd, soon after the high-profile deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, led to the rise of Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the country and around the globe. For clients, “be safe” meant advocating for them to raise their voices while identifying safeguards as their skin color made them targets for roving gangs of White nationalists, neo-Nazis, and fascists who came to Washington D.C. looking for banners to burn and people to beat (Jackman et al., 2020). Even the measures meant to keep the city secure, such as heightened police and military presence, actually did little to make the youth feel protected. As the year came to a close, “be safe” recalled government stability. The heated U.S. Presidential Election exasperated political discord that threatened U.S. democ","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59935378","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}
Art TherapyPub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2030190
J. Bianchi, Brittany Benjamin Amante, Chao Zhao, A. Martin, Alejandra Hernandez, Emily Lin
{"title":"Connecting in New Ways: Art Therapy Trainees’ Experiences of Telehealth During COVID-19","authors":"J. Bianchi, Brittany Benjamin Amante, Chao Zhao, A. Martin, Alejandra Hernandez, Emily Lin","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2030190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2030190","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In March 2020, The Helen B. Landgarten Art Therapy Clinic [HBL ATC] transitioned to art therapy telehealth due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article presents a qualitative case study focused on emergent themes related to the efficacy and clinical themes as experienced and observed by a group of art therapy graduate student trainees. Findings show that art therapy trainees experienced art therapy telehealth to create opportunities for more diverse populations to access mental health services, provided safe spaces to promote self-expression, created a sense of hope and purpose, and increased connectedness during a crisis.","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41706453","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}