Self-assessing music therapy: the validity and reliability of the music therapy practice scale (MTPS)
Publication date: Available online 11 March 2019Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Michele BiasuttiAbstractSeveral questionnaires were designed to accomplish specific research objectives in music therapy research without always reporting the psychometric properties of these questionnaires. A lack of valid and reliable instruments to self-assess music therapy practice emerged. In the current paper is reported the development and validation of the Music Therapy Practice Scale (MTPS) a quantitative 15-item scale for self-assessing music therapy practice. A total of 247 participants completed MTPS. The validity and re...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - March 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Helpful and Hindering Events in Art Therapy as perceived by Art Therapists in the Educational System
This study examined significant events in therapeutic sessions as perceived by art therapists working in the school system. Sixteen female art therapists employed by the Israeli educational system filled in the Helpful Aspects of Therapy (HAT) questionnaire each week during the 2015-2016 school year immediately after the therapy session about a specific pupil they had selected. We implemented an open-ended qualitative analysis based on a thematic analysis. The findings were compiled into five main categories according to the main source generating the events: (1) Helpful and hindering events originating from the therapist,...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - March 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Art Therapy Relational Neuroscience Memory Reconsolidation Protocol
Publication date: Available online 12 March 2019Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Noah Hass-Cohen, Joanna M.A. Clyde FindlayAbstractNovel and rewarding experiences can reconsolidate people's memories and recalibrate their reactions to past events. Memory reconsolidation (MR) is a positive process whereby as autobiographical memories are recalled, they return to a labile state, and can be either reinforced or updated before reconsolidation. Thus, updating fear-based memories with non-fearful information may lead to permanent reduction in automatic responses and lasting changes to distressing memories. During recal...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - March 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Enhanced Relaxation in Students After Combined Depth Relaxation Music Therapy and Silence in a Natural Setting
In conclusion, both silent conditions in nature fostered relaxation. These study conditions combining silence, nature, and DRMT/HMT proved to be effective as a group music therapy method and should be further explored. (Source: Arts in Psychotherapy)
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - March 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Group psychotherapy with young adults: exploring change using the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme method
Publication date: Available online 4 March 2019Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Xavier López-i-MartínAbstractIn this exploratory study, the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme method was used to assess changes in interpersonal relationship patterns in a scenetherapy group based on dramatization and improvisation to facilitate the processing of conflicts. Method: Four young adults with difficulties in their interpersonal relationships participated in 32 scenetherapy sessions. Relationship episodes observed in the first eight and the last eight treatment sessions were compared using the CCRT-LU (Spanish version)...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - March 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Beyond Self-Report Methods: Sand tray Used in Resilience Evaluation
This study aims to develop a workable scoring technique for sand tray to evaluate resilience. Participants are 207 undergraduates recruited from three public universities of China who made an initial sand tray and completed a questionnaire package. First, a General Sand tray Coding Manual (GSCM) was developed to code the 207 sand trays. Then, correlation and regression analyses were conducted between all GSCM indicators and a widely used resilience scale to identify the final indicators representing resilience. Results show three indicators (i.e., vitality, water type, and relationship) account for 35% of the variance of r...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - March 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Reentry Experiences of Dance/Movement Therapists in East Asia After Training in the United States
Publication date: Available online 23 February 2019Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Kyung Soon KoAbstractThis phenomenological study explores the transitional experiences of East Asian dance/movement therapists who left the sites of their professional training in the United States to travel back to their countries in East Asia. Semi-structured interviews with six participants were conducted to explore two research questions: 1. How did dance/movement therapy (DMT) returnees describe their experiences of transition from the United States to their home countries? and 2. How did DMT returnees experience the transit...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Changing identities through Staging Recovery: The role of community theatre in the process of recovery
This study aimed to explore the experiences of six performers following their engagement in a community arts intervention called Staging Recovery. Staging Recovery is a three year drama project, delivered by The Geese Theatre Company, working with people marginalised within society and recovering from substance abuse. The study used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to collect and analyse the data as IPA allows the exploration of sensitive and unique experiences; more so, it encapsulates the voices and experiences of participants, ensuring they are central to the phenomenon under examination. Nine themes emerg...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - February 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Coping with Stress: The Use of Emotional Eating or the Use of Angry and Sad Music for Expressing Negative Emotions are Indirectly Related through Emotional and Avoidance Coping
Publication date: Available online 16 February 2019Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Annemieke J.M. van den Tol, Melanie R. Ward, Haley FongAbstractThe use of music for discharge (for releasing anger or sadness through music that expresses these same emotions) is a commonly used strategy for people who engage in emotional eating (EE; eating to cope with stress). It is unknown, however, if this is a good alternative to EE. Emotional and avoidance coping strategies have been found in past research to relate to worse mental health, but are also likely associated with both EE and discharge when coping with stress. Th...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - February 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Re-animating vulnerable children’s voices through secondary analysis of their play therapist’s interview narratives
This study reports an innovative secondary analysis process in which therapy practitioner narratives were used to re-animate the lived experiences and challenges of vulnerable children. The results indicated that attending therapy was experienced as supportive for children; in being able to make choices, in being informed about decisions relating to their current circumstances and future, and the role of attendance at therapy in supporting their needs. (Source: Arts in Psychotherapy)
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - February 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Body and Movement in Couple Therapy: The Intake Phase
Publication date: Available online 12 February 2019Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Maya Vulcan, Einat Shuper EngelhardAbstractThe study explored the somatic and kinetic aspects of relationships during the intake process in couple psychotherapy. Nine heterosexual couples, who had turned to body-oriented couple psychotherapy, were invited to an intake session, including a joint interview and an individually administered questionnaire. The findings converged on issues of gender based self-image and sexual identity; pre-verbal memories in the adult body; and attunement to the other through joint movement. The analy...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - February 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Representations of maladaptive daydreaming and the self: A qualitative analysis of drawings
Publication date: Available online 2 February 2019Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Eli Somer, Liora Somer, Naomi HalpernAbstractThis paper presents an inquiry of art products produced by 9 individuals with maladaptive daydreaming (MD) who provided pictorial and verbal descriptions of both their condition and themselves. We found that the perceived benefits of MD for our respondents included the ownership of a self-controlled means of emotional regulation that served as protection from grim external and internal realities combined with the gratifying joy of an easily accessible internal entertainment mechanism. A...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - February 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A thematic synthesis of therapeutic actions in arts therapies and their perceived effects in the treatment of people with a diagnosis of Cluster B personality disorder
The objective of this study was to thematically synthesize literature about specific in-session therapeutic actions occurring for people with Cluster B personality disorder attending arts therapies. Studies reporting on arts therapies treatment for people with a diagnosis of personality disorder were searched in Embase, Medline, PubMed and grey sources until June 2017. Search yielded 167 records. 32 studies were included in the analysis. Data synthesis was conducted by using extracts from the literature search which were coded and then subject to a thematic analysis and synthesis. The codes were then discussed and agreed b...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - January 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parallel Pregnancies: The Impact on the Supervisory Relationship and Art Therapy Practice
Publication date: Available online 4 January 2019Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Rebecca D. Miller, Jade A. GiffinAbstractThis paper explores a unique circumstance of simultaneous pregnancy within an art therapy supervisory relationship and the impact of the supervisee therapist’s pregnancy on treatment with adolescents in art therapy. At the time of their parallel pregnancy journey, the co-authors served as art therapists, with the first author supervising the second author, at a residential treatment facility for adolescents with histories of severe trauma, abuse, and neglect. Literature reveals a dearth of...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - January 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Therapeutic Effects of Imagination: Investigating Mimetic Induction and Dramatic Simulation in a Trauma Treatment for Military Veterans
Publication date: Available online 24 December 2018Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Alisha Ali, Stephan Wolfert, Patricia Fahmy, Meghan Nayyar, Amna ChaudhryAbstractThe concept of mimesis has existed since the time of the ancient Greeks and continues to be debated by artists and scholars alike concerning its meaning and implications for our understanding of the effects of theatre and fiction. In this article, we consider the possible therapeutic potential of mimesis, which can be seen as a way of thinking about theatre as a form of simulated story in which we can imagine ourselves. We focus on the healing effect...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - December 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
