“My body was telling me the direction:” The bodily dimension in the dance/movement therapists’ working experiences
Publication date: Available online 29 December 2017Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Iris Gross-Cohen, Zvi EisikovitsAbstractThis is a qualitative study of the physical dimension of the experience of being a dance/movement therapist as described by the therapists. The existential phenomenological approach underlies the conceptual framework of this study. The research population comprised the first author—a dance/movement therapist—and 10 of her peers. Two means of data collection were employed: Auto-ethnography and qualitative in-depth interviewing. The data collection consisted of self-documentation of the r...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psychodrama in therapeutic communities for drug addiction: A study of four cases investigated using idiographic change process analysis
This article derives from a TC in northern Italy and presents a study of four cases, which analyzed the results of a 6 month psychodrama research intervention that adopted the Person Centered Approach (PCA). The effects were measured through an idiographic change process with a mixed method design. The qualitative part of the assessment consisted of the Client Change Interview (CCI), the Helpful Aspects of Therapy (HAT); the longitudinal quantitative part used the Spontaneity Assessment Inventory – Revised (SAI-R), the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation – Outcome Measure (CORE-OM), the General Self-Efficacy Scale ...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Four-Drawing Art Therapy Trauma and Resiliency Protocol Study
Publication date: Available online 15 February 2018Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Noah Hass-Cohen, Rebecca Bokoch, Joanna Clyde Findlay, Alyssa Banford WittingAbstractResiliency, as fostered by creativity, imagination, and the arts therapies, is a critical factor in managing the impact of adversity. This pilot study investigated the potential effectiveness of a four-drawing art therapy trauma and resiliency protocol for coping with adverse life events. The protocol is designed according to memory reconsolidation research and based in art therapy relational neuroscience (ATR-N) principles and trauma models. The...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The experience of attunement and misattunement in dance movement therapy workshops
Publication date: Available online 22 June 2018Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Tjaša Jerak, Alenka Vidrih, Gregor ŽvelcAbstractThis qualitative study was designed to investigate the moments of attunement and misattunement in the dance movement therapy workshops. The main research question was how do participants experience moments of attunement and misattunement in dance movement therapy workshops. The study uses a quasi-experimental design, with phenomenological inquiry, and a two part analysis: Laban Movement Analysis and grounded theory coding. Four students of expressive arts therapies attended four exper...
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Working with parents in the neonatal intensive care unit: An analysis of music therapy practice in the United States of America
Publication date: July 2018Source: The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 59Author(s): Lori F. Gooding, Bethany TrainorAbstractParents of infants hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) often face a variety of emotional and practical challenges that can lead to post-traumatic stress symptoms, acute stress disorder, or posttraumatic stress disorder. Music therapy has consistently shown benefits for infants, parents, and caregivers, but limited information exists on how music therapists specifically address parents’ needs. The purpose of this study was to explore American music therapists’ experiences with par...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Bodily experiences of patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa during treatment with the body monochord—A modified grounded theory approach
This study explored the subjective bodily experiences of patients with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa (AN) during vibro-acoustic stimulation sessions with the Body Monochord (BoMo), a body sound treatment instrument. A total of 20 female patients diagnosed with AN received two BoMo treatments. Subsequent to the treatments, semi-structured interviews were conducted. Analysis was conducted using Grounded Theory.The following main categories were identified: differentiated perception, focussed attention, emergence of body-related feelings, emergence of emotions, emergence of thoughts, emergence of inner images, relaxation, s...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Meeting oneself in inner dialogue: a manual-based Phenomenological Art Therapy as experienced by patients diagnosed with moderate to severe depression
This study aimed to explore and describe the significance of PATd for patients diagnosed with moderate to severe depression. The study adopted a phenomenological approach according to Reflective Lifeworld Research. Ten participants were interviewed. The interviews were transcribed and a meaning-oriented analysis was conducted: the transcribed text was read repeatedly to gain an initial sense of the material; meaning-bearing units were identified and related meanings were grouped together in clusters; and the invariant element, the essence of the phenomenon, was described with its various aspects. PATd facilitates meeting o...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dance therapy and the public school: The development of social and emotional skills of high school students in Greece
Publication date: July 2018Source: The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 59Author(s): Efthimia PanagiotopoulouAbstractThe article stresses the significance of dance therapy in the school environment. It is based on a research conducted in two Greek public schools, although dance therapy is not yet used in the Greek education system. However, the revised school curriculum gives the opportunity for dance therapy practice. The aim of the research was to ascertain whether dance therapy could contribute to the development of the students’ social and emotional skills. The 23 participants were 16–17 years old and were divided in ...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Change in body image among depressed adult outpatients after a dance movement therapy group treatment
This study reports on the body image of depressed psychiatric outpatients, and the impact thereon of a dance movement therapy (DMT) group. Body image is perceived as a tri-partite construct consisting of image-properties, body-self, and body memory. Depressed patients in an outpatient mental health service participated in a DMT group treatment consisting of twelve 90-min long sessions in groups of 4–7 patients. Patients (N = 18) responded to a structured Body Image Assessment (BIA) before and after the treatment.Initially, the depressed patients’ body image was characterized by fragmentation, distortions, and shall...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Body drawings as an assessment tool in somatoform disorder
This study examined the psychometric quality of observer ratings of objective characteristics of 180 own body drawings made by persons referred to treatment for somatoform disorder and 67 post-treatment drawings. Physical features of the drawings such as eyes, hands, size and angle of perception, were scored. These observer ratings were correlated with participants’ responses on the Dresden Body Image Questionnaire (DBIQ-35) and with a single assessment by art therapists of the clients’ relationships to their bodies. Changes in the observer ratings before and after therapy were evaluated. Inter-rater reliability was ad...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The role of a music therapist exploring gender and power with young people: Articulating an emerging anti-oppressive practice
This article focuses on how young people conceptualise this approach to music therapy practice. In the last decade, several approaches have emerged in the creative arts therapies that aim to critically explore power, and challenge dominant socio-political discourses. While there has been a dedicated interest in critical, feminist approaches to practice in the music therapy discipline, empirical research into music therapy as a space for exploring gendered narratives with young people is still evolving. Furthermore, we have little sense of how anti-oppressive approaches are experienced by the people of all ages with whom we...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Emotion regulation strategies and effects in art-making: A narrative synthesis
Publication date: July 2018Source: The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 59Author(s): Harald Gruber, Renate OepenAbstractQuestions concerning the regulation or dysregulation of emotions in mental distress states are not only of fundamental concern in psychotherapy research but also a key issue in the art therapy field. Nevertheless, few studies have investigated the effectiveness of artistic activities in emotion regulation. This review aims to identify and analyze studies that investigate art-making to regulate emotions. Most studies to date have examined the effects of short-term mood repair, but some did investigate emotion...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Assessing the Six-Member Collaborative Drawing Technique with the Collaborative Art Elements Scale
In this study, there were 437 participants (205 men, 215 women; age: 18–35 years). In the development of the rating scale, 20 initial items were examined and reviewed by experts over three sessions, to establish content validity; following factor analyses, the CAES was validated and eight items were derived to evaluate the S-CDT. The intra-class coefficient (ICC), at .89, and the intra-rater reliability, at .87–.93, were satisfactory, demonstrating reliability. Eight items were established as scoring criteria for pictorial expressions in the group-unit drawing assessment. Based on the evaluation, this research found th...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Drama therapy and theater as an intervention tool: Bibliometric analysis of programs based on drama therapy and theater
Publication date: July 2018Source: The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 59Author(s): Sara Fernández-Aguayo, Margarita Pino-JusteAbstractThis bibliometric analysis focuses on the use of drama therapy and theater as a therapeutic tool in intervention programs.The search was carried out in five databases: Wos, Scopus, Eric, Medline and PsycInfo. Three keywords were used and two searches were performed: drama therapy, theater and program. At the end of the search, 136 documents were obtained, out of which 102 were articles, 18 theses, 6 books, 9 book chapters, and 1 proceeding. No temporal adjustment was applied. The documents p...
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