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Drawing the Group
Published in Usva Seregina, Astrid Van den Bossche, Art-Based Research in the Context of a Global Pandemic, 2023
Situating my art-based exploration within art therapy literature provides a framework for understanding the potential meanings, and usefulness, of my drawings in my particular context. Art therapists have long believed that making art can provide access to interior life and become a way of gaining intimate self-knowledge and knowledge of relationships with others and, although much simplified, this can be seen as the premise of the way psychodynamically informed art therapy has been conceptualised (Schaverien 1991). Of particular relevance for this chapter are a growing number of art therapists who also use their own artwork made in response to clients, as a method to gain insight on therapeutic processes and to reflect on the thoughts and feelings of both client and therapist.
Integration with the Interdisciplinary Care Team
Published in Amy J. Litterini, Christopher M. Wilson, Physical Activity and Rehabilitation in Life-threatening Illness, 2021
Christopher M. Wilson, Amy J. Litterini
According to the American Art Therapy Association, art therapy is “an integrative mental health and human services profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.”33
Creative Therapies (Art and Play)
Published in Cathy Laver-Bradbury, Margaret J.J. Thompson, Christopher Gale, Christine M. Hooper, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2021
Margaret Josephs, Emma House, Sarah Holden, Loz Foskett
Art therapy is practiced in a variety of both residential and community settings, within health, social services, education and the voluntary and private sector. Clients are seen individually with their families and in groups.
A Review of ‘Quick and Creative Art Projects for Creative Therapists with (Very) Limited Budgets’
Published in Art Therapy, 2021
As a practicing art therapist having over fifteen years’ experience working in a psychiatric hospital, and currently as a practitioner at a community art therapy studio, I was very interested to read the authors’ suggestions for making the most of a limited budget. In Appendix 1, “Where to get materials,” the authors provide an international index of materials sources. One criticism of this list is referencing art therapy studios (such as Boulder Art Therapy Collective) as “shopping venues” (p. 137); community art therapy practices could more appropriately be included as useful resources on where to find interesting and low-cost art supplies. Practitioners at community art therapy studios often have relationships with retailers and organizations who will donate materials for art therapy and could provide sources for creative therapists developing new programs. The authors expand beyond simply a budgetary approach to creative art therapy and include important considerations in overall program development. In multiple sections of the book, Brandoff and Thompson acknowledge issues of culture, historical context, and accessibility related to their proposed projects.
Art Therapy and the Malnourished Brain: The Development of the Nourishment Framework
Published in Art Therapy, 2021
Art therapy is an active therapeutic process that integrates the mind and body, allowing an individual to uncover, explore, and process emotional content through art making. Art therapy often pairs fear-arousing emotions with positive new sensory experiences as a means of coping, regulating, and integrating (Hass-Cohen, 2008). Art therapists encourage spontaneous engagement, support attention and logical understanding, and create a holding space for overwhelming experiential states (Shore, 2014). Such assumptions may be validated by understanding how creativity provides insight into the ways in which art making may activate neural networks. Creative thinking requires methodological problem solving, organization, cognitive flexibility, abstract thinking, planning, willed action, and source and working memory (Dietrich, 2004; Ellamil et al., 2012). Engaging in creative activities heightens a person’s “ability to engage in contradictory modes of thought, including cognitive, affective, deliberate, and spontaneous processing” (Ellamil, et al., 2012, pp. 1791–1792).
Examining the effect of mindfulness-based art therapy (MBAT) on stress and lifestyle of Iranian pregnant women
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2020
Zeinab Jalambadani, Abasalt Borji, Mehdi Bakaeian
Mindfulness-based art therapy (MBAT) is not just a method or technique, akin to other familiar techniques and strategies we may find instrumental and effective, it is a way of being, of seeing, of tapping into the full dimensionality of our humanity, and this way has a critical non-instrumental essence inherent in it (Holmboe et al. 2017). Art therapy combines the creative process and psychotherapy, facilitating self-exploration, and understanding. Using imagery, color and shape as part of this creative therapeutic process, thoughts and feelings that can be expressed. The main difference between (MBAT) approach and the reduction of mental-based stress-based intervention is the awareness that it is based on the teaching of non-verbal components, such as creative expression of emotions and physical emotions in patients (Monti et al. 2006a). MBSR has been described as ‘a group program that focuses upon the progressive acquisition of mindful awareness, of mindfulness’ (Grossman et al. 2004). MBSR is based on the following tenets: non-judging, non-striving, acceptance, letting go, beginner’s mind, patience, trust, and non-centred (Frewen et al. 2008).