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Can Expressive Arts Therapy Help Caregivers of Persons with ASD?: A Community Engagement Project Capstone Thesis

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Integrating expressive arts therapies into facilitated online therapy groups for adults: a review of the literature.

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In early 2020, COVID-19 infections soared throughout the world, driving most group interactions online. Online adult Expressive Arts Therapy (EAT) groups faced unique challenges and opportunities, as the arts interventions did not always translate directly online without adaptations. In this literature review, this thesis focuses on how the specialization of Expressive Arts has been applied to these online adult therapy groups. Where the literature lacked references to the Expressive Arts specifically, the individual arts of Dance Movement Therapy (DMT), Expressive Writing (EW), Art Therapy, and Music Therapy were considered. This capstone thesis offers suggestions for areas of future research to include the use of Expressive Arts Therapies as ways to ameliorate challenges found in online therapy groups; to consider ways in which the use of online Expressive Arts Therapy groups might serve some populations better than in-person groups; and to apply the Expressive Therapies Continuum as a theoretical framework through which to reimagine Expressive Arts interventions with adult therapy clients in online settings.

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    This study will use qualitative and. literature research to focus on what art therapy method topics, such as receptive, expressive, cognitive, and media usage, can be practical and how the methods can be conducted in. therapeutic sessions for college students. The study will also explore the challenges and solutions.

  10. PDF The Effectiveness of Expressive Arts Therapies

    Arts Therapy Association (ANZATA) of creative arts therapies will be used to stand for both creative and expressive arts therapies . Arts therapy or arts psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses creative modalities, including visual art-making, drama, and dance/movement to improve and inform physical, mental and emotional well-being.

  11. PDF Story and Storytelling in Storytelling Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy

    One's story becomes a form of identity, in which the things one chooses to include in the story, and the way one tells the story, can both reflect and shape who one is. Typical guidelines for performance storytelling are: 1) Visualise. 2) Describe. 3) At times, mime story objects. 4) At times, become characters.

  12. PDF Trauma-Informed Approaches to Expressive Arts Therapy: A Toolkit for

    Art Therapy in that Expressive Arts Therapy draws on a variety of art modalities and is frequently multimodal in its approach, meaning that it combines the use of different art forms according to the needs of a particular client or group. Trauma-informed care is an approach, based on knowledge of the impact of trauma, ...

  13. DigitalCommons@Lesley

    From Boys to Non-Toxic Men: An Intervention Using Expressive Arts Therapy to Foster Healthy Masculinity in Adult Men, Jennifer Liff. PDF. Enhance Inner Resilience and Self-Esteem: An Exploration Utilizing Expressive Arts Therapy in a Curriculum-Based Approach with Asian Immigrant Adolescents, Kevin Lin. PDF

  14. (PDF) The Efficacy of Expressive Arts Therapy in the Creation of

    Indeed, the expressive arts therapy framework seemed to provide the suitable methodology to support individual and social transformation through a creative and holistic process, with a high degree ...

  15. PDF The Path to Wholeness: Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy

    The terms expressive therapy or expressive arts therapy generally denote dance therapy, art therapy, and music therapy. These terms also include therapy through journal writing, poetry, imagery, meditation, and improvisational drama. Using the expressive arts to foster emotional healing, resolve inner conflict, and awaken individual creativity ...

  16. Journals And Research Articles

    Gussak, D. (2006). Effects of art therapy with prison inmates: a follow-up study. The Arts in Psychotherapy. 33:188-98. doi: 10.1016/j.aip.2005.11.003; Gussak, D. (2007). The effectiveness of art therapy in reducing depression in prison populations. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

  17. PDF Change Art in Action: Expressive Arts Therapy and Social

    Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 29(1)pp.44-47C AATA,Inc.2012 reviews Art in Action: Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change EditedbyEllen G. Levine andStephen K. Levine Philadelphia,PA:JessicaKingsley,2011 240pp.,$35.95paper ISBN:978-1-8490-5820-9 ReviewedbyPat B. Allen, Ojai,CA Art in Action consists of three ...

  18. Lesley University DigitalCommons@Lesley

    and Expressive Arts Therapy Capstone Thesis Lesley University May 5, 2019 Akinlana M. Burrowes Expressive Arts Therapy Professor Michelle Napoli . PTSS: EAT AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY 2 Abstract . Post traumatic slave syndrome (PTSS) is defined as "a condition that exists when a

  19. PDF CV of Prof. Margo Fuchs Knill, Ph.D., Dean

    Adjunct faculty of Counseling Psychology and Intermodal Expressive Arts Therapies and Creative Learning 1983 to 1992 - core group leader and core faculty - developed standards for the MA thesis and supervised the thesis advisors - supervised the internships - lead the art based research seminars in expressive arts therapy 1992 to 1995 Ass ...

  20. PDF Arts & Healing Creative, Artistic, and Expressive Therapies for PTSD

    a, and/or may avoid the stigma of receiving mental health treatment. Such therapeutic approaches include expressive writing and expressive group therapy, a range of creative t. erapies (e.g., art, music, body-oriented), and mindfulness training.Although these alternative therapies differ i.

  21. Lesley University DigitalCommons@Lesley

    Abstract. This graduate capstone thesis paper and project proposes a new therapeutic. intervention called Solution-Focused Brief Expressive Arts Therapy. (SFBExAT). This intervention and approach is based on the synthesized theories, techniques, and principles of Expressive Arts Therapy (ExAT) and Solution-. Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT).

  22. (PDF) Animated treatment: the method of art therapy used with children

    Abstract. This article considers the author's original technique of studying positive and negative aspects of social communication of children having selective communication problems. The art ...

  23. Special Guests 2018

    Varvara V. Sidorova completed her REAT, Ph. D. in Psychology in 2005 with her thesis "Cross-cultural research of the image of consciousness (on the materials of Russian and Japanese cultures)" at the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Counseling.

  24. Integrating Expressive Arts Therapies into Facilitated Online Therapy

    In early 2020, COVID-19 infections soared throughout the world, driving most group interactions online. Online adult Expressive Arts Therapy (EAT) groups faced unique challenges and opportunities, as the arts interventions did not always translate directly online without adaptations. In this literature review, this thesis focuses on how the specialization of Expressive Arts has been applied to ...