Art TherapyPub Date : 2022-09-09DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2110807
Bani Malhotra, D. Gussak
{"title":"Reconciling Demonically-Monstrous Self-Images in Those Labeled as Sex Offenders","authors":"Bani Malhotra, D. Gussak","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2110807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2110807","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This practice paper demonstrates an art therapy session that revealed the internalized monstrous and demonic identities amongst those who have sexually offended. Several of the participants represented their shadow-self as: (1) nebulous demonic self-representations, (2) internalized monstrous selves as hurtful or uncontrolled, or (3) a dichotomy of power and helplessness. Making these negative self-images visible during such an art therapy process can inform the initial step toward reconciliation, especially within the transitional space of reintegrating into society post-incarceration. Implications demonstrate the use of metaphorical expression and how such images can address the stigmatized and internalized negative self-perceptions of those who have sexually offended.","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":"40 1","pages":"15 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41598733","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 : 2022-09-09DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2110808
Juliet Jue
{"title":"The Effect of Art Practice on the Happiness of Art Therapy Students","authors":"Juliet Jue","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2110808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2110808","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study set out to quantitatively examine the influence of art practice on art therapy students’ subjective well-being. A total of 158 Korean art therapy graduate students participated in the study, completing the Art Practice Scale and Concise Measure of Subjective Well-Being. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression analyses. The analyses revealed positive interrelationships between art practice and subjective well-being. A comparison of the two sub-variables art competency and attitudes toward art work showed that actually engaging in art work is more important than having a positive attitude toward art. The study’s implications highlight the importance of art practice in art therapy students’ psychological happiness.","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":"40 1","pages":"46 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46845457","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 : 2022-08-17DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2100690
Noah Hass-Cohen, Rebecca Bokoch, G. Fowler
{"title":"The Compassionate Arts Psychotherapy Program: Benefits of a Compassionate Arts Media Continuum","authors":"Noah Hass-Cohen, Rebecca Bokoch, G. Fowler","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2100690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2100690","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Compassionate Arts Psychotherapy (CAP) program integrates self-compassion and arts psychotherapy practices, which are informed by a compassionate arts media (CAM) continuum. A mixed methods pilot program evaluation with a pretest-posttest single group design, followed by an open-ended survey, was conducted. Participants included 18 graduate students who engaged in ten 2.5-hour meetings, over the course of two weekends. Results showed statistically significant increases in self-compassion, and cognitive and affective mindfulness over time and at two-week follow-up. Qualitatively, participants reported positive gains, specifically: openness to new experiences, here-and-now mindful awareness, and self-compassion. These results suggest the clinical utility of CAP and provide novel perspectives on the directionality of the traditional art therapy media continuum.","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":"40 1","pages":"5 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43194106","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 : 2022-08-11DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2100688
Eileen Misluk, Haley Rush
{"title":"Art Therapy Impact on Aging Adults’ Quality of Life: Leisure and Learning","authors":"Eileen Misluk, Haley Rush","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2100688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2100688","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Quality of life (QoL) is influenced by physical and psychological health, but includes subjective qualities that are inherent in social and cognitive processes necessary for healthy aging and overall well-being. A quantitative study analyzed the effects of art therapy for 14 aging adults utilizing the Brunnsviken Brief Quality of Life Scale (BBQ) at pre, mid, and post 32-week study. Regression analysis showed significant positive changes in two areas: Importance of Learning and Leisure. Participating in art therapy increased the importance of learning and leisure, that are influential factors in QoL for aging adults. This demonstrates that art therapy has the potential to support healthy aging.","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":"39 1","pages":"211 - 218"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45099441","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 : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2097833
Ashley Hartman, C. Campenni
{"title":"The Effect of Medium and Instruction While Creating Mandalas","authors":"Ashley Hartman, C. Campenni","doi":"10.1080/07421656.2022.2097833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2022.2097833","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This randomized controlled study examined the effects of creating open circle mandalas with divergent instruction type (distraction and reflection) and medium type (resistive and fluid) on state anxiety, mood, and mindfulness. The design followed a 2 (instruction type) × 2 (medium type) × 3 (time) mixed experimental design. Reflective writing tasks were analyzed for linguistic expression. Results indicated anxiety reduction and improved mood across all conditions as evidenced by explicit assessment. Implicit assessments determined enhanced mindfulness for reflection instruction type and fluid medium type. Practical connections to the Expressive Therapies Continuum (Lusebrink, 1990) and Media Dimensions Variable (Kagin & Lusebrink, 1978) frameworks are discussed.","PeriodicalId":8492,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy","volume":"39 1","pages":"203 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44320504","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: 10.1080/07421656.2022.2095182
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":"39 1","pages":"223 - 224"},"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":"39 1","pages":"194 - 202"},"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":"39 1","pages":"118 - 118"},"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":"39 1","pages":"166 - 167"},"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":"39 1","pages":"119 - 120"},"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}