What About Me? Sibling Play Therapy When a Family Has a Child With Chronic Illness
Lawrence C. Rubin in Handbook of Medical Play Therapy and Child Life, 2017
Siegel’s (2010, 2012, 2017) research on interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB) has identified how resilience can be cultivated through play interactions that train the developing brain in making personal connections, regulating feelings, and problem solving. Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (Barfield, Dobson, Gaskill, & Perry, 2012; Perry, 2006; Perry & Hambrick, 2008) gives a step-by-step process of applying the latest brain research to play-based therapeutic interventions. Experiential and expressive therapies such as play therapy, art therapy, drama therapy, and developmental therapies such as Theraplay (Jernberg & Booth, 1999; Munns, 2000, 2009) provide interventions that unify the cognitive, affective, behavioral, and relational dimensions that support resilience processes in family-based therapies (Seymour & Erdman, 1996).
The Uneasy Connection Between Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Art Therapy
Marcia L. Rosal in Cognitive-Behavioral Art Therapy, 2018
Art therapy is one of several experiential modes of treatment, including the creative arts therapies (e.g., art, bibliotherapy, dance, drama, music, poetry, psychodrama) as well as recreation therapies, which include equine interventions. Experiential treatments engage the client in participating in a creative activity that embodies therapeutic value. When art therapy is employed, clients are encouraged to interact with an assortment of art materials through touching, smelling, and manipulating art media. The therapeutic value of using art materials has been explored by numerous art therapists, and there are many books and journal articles that advance the use of art therapy with a multitude of diagnostic groups. Understanding the therapeutic application of the many art materials available to art therapists is explored through the expressive therapies continuum (Kagin & Lusebrink, 1978; Lusebrink, 1990, 2016; Hinz, 2009, 2016) as well as investigations of both traditional and contemporary media by C. Moon (2010). The manipulation of art materials was initially discussed by Kramer (1971), who found that forming a product out of raw art materials can be empowering and ego-building.
Trauma-informed Organizations, Leadership, Secondary Traumatic Stress and Supervision
William Steele in Reducing Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress and Burnout, 2019
What then constitutes trauma-informed care? Trauma-informed care refers to the practices provided, as well one’s approach to the intervention and/or interaction with clients. Recently I met with another group of professionals who, compared to others, did have a good knowledge base about trauma; however, when I asked the clinical staff if they could describe how they integrate self-regulation into their intervention sessions, other than recommending clients take yoga or try meditation and use breathing techniques, they could not. All clinical staff had been trained in Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). No one was trained in treatments like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Somatic Experiencing, Narrative Exposure Therapy or Neuro-counseling. There were no certified art therapist and only one licensed play therapist; both interventions play a critical role in the processing of trauma as do other expressive therapies (Malchiodi, 2011; Foa, Keane, Friedman, & Cohen, 2008; Gil, 2006). As no one intervention fits every individual, how can one say they deliver trauma-informed care when clients do not have a choice and clinicians are not collectively trained in various techniques so they too have choices to help clients when one method is not working? From my perspective this staff was not engaging the trauma-informed care principle of choice nor sensitive to the unique needs of trauma victims.
Can Creative Writing, as an Add-on to Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder, Support Rehabilitation?
Published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2020
Kristine Tarp, Rikke Hellum, Anders Juhl Rasmussen, Anette Søgaard Nielsen
The present pilot study indicated that there was, indeed, a self-perceived rehabilitating impact of participation in the creative writing and reading exercises. The patients’ overall enthusiasm and gain from the workshop indicated that this kind of creative therapy can add new ways of improving rehabilitation after years of excessive alcohol use: by letting the patients focus on something positive, distracting their minds, making them feel part of a community, and helping them out of isolation and loneliness. Also, the participating therapist had seen potential in the patients she had not noticed before, coherence between people who were very different, and a potential in the workshop as stigma puncturing. As such, this might be a way of opening new doors to the patients’ resources and strengths, thereby improving rehabilitation.
Art Therapy With Women With Infertility: A Mixed-Methods Multiple Case Study
Published in Art Therapy, 2018
Kaitlyn Streeter, Sarah Deaver
Regarding implications for art therapy practice, the results suggest that individual art therapy sessions could be beneficial for depth-oriented work, with treatment goals focused on each client’s specific presenting problems. Consistent with the findings of Fassimo et al. (2002) and Klerk et al. (2008), participants demonstrated tendencies to implement maladaptive coping skills including avoidance, repression, and denial. Our results suggest that art therapy processes and materials encouraged healthy emotional expression through the use of sublimation and development of new coping strategies. Within the context of a strong treatment alliance, art therapy processes informed by the Expressive Therapies Continuum (Hinz, 2012), such as clay work, wet-on-wet watercolor, and process painting, might allow individuals to explore their strong emotions through nonverbal means. Furthermore, the use of the “inside-outside box” served as a ritual for participants to create containment and feelings of closure over the losses they experienced, including miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and failure to achieve pregnancy. Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 illustrate some of the processes and materials deemed particularly successful by our participants.
Development of the Expressive Therapies Continuum: The Lifework of Vija B. Lusebrink, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM
Published in Art Therapy, 2022
Lisa D. Hinz, Megan L. VanMeter, Vija B. Lusebrink
Since the original publication of Expressive Therapies Continuum: A Framework for Using Art in Therapy (Hinz, 2009), the art therapy profession in the U.S. has taken notice of and endorsed this pantheoretical model as a unifying entity (Malik, 2022). The Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) was co-created by Dr. Vija Lusebrink and Dr. Sandra (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn in the 1970s. At its core, the ETC serves as a means for art therapists to understand and therapeutically influence nervous system information processing and the mental image formation process as well as the shift from nonconscious mental activity to conscious mental activity. Using the ETC as a framework in art therapy adds to this by combining assessment, treatment planning, intervention, progress monitoring, and case conceptualization in one system that relies upon interactions between clients and art materials and methods; it deepens an art therapist’s understanding of their correlates in information processing. This informs clinical decision making and guides clients toward increasing degrees of integrated psychological functioning, wellness, and resilience.
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