Acute care mental health workers’ assumptions and expectations of music therapy: A qualitative investigation
Publication date: July 2018Source: The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 59Author(s): Michael J. Silverman, Jennifer BibbAbstractA small number of papers indicate that music therapists are interested in how their work is perceived by other healthcare professionals. The research reported in this paper examined assumptions and expectations of music therapy by mental health professionals in order to understand better how music therapists might use effective strategies to empower greater knowledge of their practice and services. We conducted semi-structured interviews with seven clinical staff members of an acute mental health fac...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The user-friendliness of drama: Implications for drama therapy and psychodrama admission and training
This article addresses the claim that drama is a user-friendly art form that can be mastered relatively intuitively with less reliance on knowledge and practice-driven skills than other artistic modalities. Attention is given to the concept that this inherent quality warrants revisiting the drama-based prerequisites for drama therapy and psychodrama training. To this end, I first review the arts-based prerequisites for music therapy, art therapy, dance movement therapy, as well as drama therapy and psychodrama training in Israel, the US and the UK. I then highlight the three main developmental, psychosocial, and artistic r...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Being together in time: Body synchrony in couples’ psychotherapy
Publication date: September 2018Source: The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 60Author(s): Einat Shuper EngelhardAbstractThis qualitative investigation examines how couples interpret the experience of being physically in tune and out of tune with their partner. Previous studies stress the importance of synchronized rhythm in relationships in adulthood but they do not explain how and why the non-verbal communication in which some couples engage is characterized by body synchrony and that of others, is not. Nine couples (n = 18) participated in 12 meetings of dance movement couples psychotherapy. All the sessions were docume...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A constructivist grounded theory research project studying music therapy as an anti-oppressive practice in long-term and psychiatric residential care
Publication date: September 2018Source: The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 60Author(s): Sue Baines, Jane EdwardsAbstractAnalytical emancipatory social justice and anti-oppressive practice concepts have begun to be integrated into music therapy to inform and expand the theoretical basis of practice (Sajnani et al., 2017). Anti-oppressive practices (AOP) in music therapy have been developed to expose and undo both obvious and unknown oppression to increase social justice within music therapy systems, practice, and research (Baines, 2013). Music therapy as an Anti-Oppressive Practice (Baines, 2013) was examined in two sites, 1...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Response-art as reflective inquiry: Fostering awareness of racism
This article discusses the process of witnessing these images of trauma. A closed-group workshop was designed to facilitate some consciousness of external and internal dimensions of racial discrimination. Inscribed within the realm of postmemory work the workshop format invites participants to respond to presented drawings from the Ravensbrück concentration camp through visual image-making. In this report of the research undertaken, the context in which the workshop was conceived is firstly considered. Secondly, the research method, including important ethical considerations are described, and results from the thematic an...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Drawing out the shame: A comparative study on the effectiveness of art therapy with hypersexual adults
Publication date: September 2018Source: The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 60Author(s): Marie Wilson, Bruce FischerAbstractShame can be an obstacle preventing hypersexual adults from ending their compulsive sexual behaviors and working towards achieving lasting recovery. A quasi-experimental designed study compared outcomes of two different forms of treatment to reduce shame with this population; a modified CBT approach and an art therapy approach. The Internalized Shame Scale and the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory were administered at pretreatment, end-of-treatment, and again at the posttreatment follow-up. Fifty-four part...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The ninja therapist: Theater improvisation tools for the (daring) clinician
This article presents a new typology of improvisational concepts that can be used to widen the therapists’ perspective and interventions. Utilizing the metaphor of the therapist as a "ninja" and the importance of a spontaneous co-created encounter, this paper offers a taxonomy of improvisational tendencies (initiator/reactor, fast/slow), together with a classification of two possible relational moves: horizontal or vertical offers. This terminology can help therapists increase cooperation, creativity, flexibility and vitality in the therapeutic process. It can also aid clinicians and supervisors better understand and wor...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
What research evidence is there that dance movement therapy improves the health and wellbeing of older adults with dementia? A systematic review and descriptive narrative summary
Publication date: September 2018Source: The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 60Author(s): Steven Lyons, Vicky Karkou, Brenda Roe, Bonnie Meekums, Michael RichardsAbstractIn England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines for supporting people with dementia recommend the therapeutic use of dancing and/or music as a treatment for non-cognitive symptoms, but make no direct reference to dance movement therapy or music therapy. Also, previous Cochrane Reviews in these areas have been criticized for being limited to randomized controlled trials focusing on outcomes. In order to maximize findings and...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Affective and autonomic response to dynamic rhythmic entrainment: Mechanisms of a specific music therapy factor
The objective of this study was to examine specific cardiovascular and affective effects of live music matched with the listener’s heart beat, with the tempo gradually decreased to assess the relaxation effect.Thirty apparently healthy students were randomized to either the experimental (EG) or the control group (CG). After a brief mental stress task, both groups listened to a live music therapy relaxation technique. While a biofeedback device was utilized to enable real-time synchronization of relaxing music to the listener’s pulse in the EG, the tempo in the CG was fixed to 70 beats per minute. Self-ratings of stress...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cross-cultural music therapy: Reflections of American music therapists working internationally
Publication date: Available online 24 July 2017Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Miranda S. Grimmer, Melody Schwantes (Source: Arts in Psychotherapy)
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Using photovoice with children of addicted parents to integrate phenomenological and social reality
Publication date: Available online 21 November 2017Source: The Arts in PsychotherapyAuthor(s): Menny Malka, Ephrat Huss, Lilach Bendarker, Orel MusaiAbstractOn a micro level, addiction of a parent has a long-term psychological impact on children’s social, developmental, cognitive and emotional levels. On a macro level, the energy required to bear the social shame of the parent's addiction and the need to keep the secret are also very difficult. Photovoice makes it possible to express both the inner experience through symbols and metaphors, and the social reality, through photographing surroundings at the same time. Withi...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The effectiveness of schema focused drama therapy for cluster C personality disorders: An exploratory study
This study explored the extent to which drama therapy is effective in the treatment of cluster C personality disorders? Relevant sub questions were whether or not the clients would visibly show and experience more emotions during the intervention (emotional modes), show less avoidant coping modes, and show more healthy modes when compared to their initial values. Another related question was whether or not, in the client’s perception, the healthy modes increased and the destructive modes decreased. In this study, a single group design was used where a group (N = 8) was offered a drama therapy protocol for three month...
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
“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 5, 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 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
