In this viewpoint, the authors describe their impressions of a 2018 conference and the significance of participating in a learning environment that centered on arts therapists of color. Collectively, ...two art therapy educators, a music therapy educator, one new professional art therapist, and one art therapy graduate student, question the maintenance of professional norms that have at times motivated BIPOC students and practitioners to leave the creative arts therapies in search of other professional places to thrive. The article concludes with a Womanist Manifesto for Arts Therapies Education.
Seseorang yang mengalami kesepian adalah orang yang merasa sendirian. Mayoritas lansia tentunya ingin dapat hidup nyaman di rumahnya sendiri bersama anak dan keluarganya. Namun nyatanya, tidak semua ...lansia mampu melakukan hal tersebut karena berbagai alasan, antara lain kemiskinan, kurangnya anak atau anggota keluarga yang dapat merawat lansia, dan kesalahan yang dilakukan anggota keluarga dalam memberikan pengasuhan. tua. tua. Akibatnya banyak lansia yang mengalami penelantaran dan kesepian. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menjelaskan pengaruh terapi aktivitas kelompok okupasi art WASIMAPAN “wadah kreasi menurunkan kesepian” terhadap penurunan tingkat kesepian pada lansia. Penelitian ini menggunakan pre-experimental one-group pre-posttest design. Sampel pada penelitian ini 8 responden. Pengumpulan data menggunakan kuesioner University California of Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness scale version 3 dianalisis dengan menggunakan Uji Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. Hasil dari penelitian menunjukkan hasil p=0,012≤α yang berarti ada pengaruh terapi aktivitas kelompok okupasi art terhadap penurunan tingkat kesepian pada lansia. Saran bagi pengelola griya wredha dapat menggunakan terapi aktivitas kelompok okupasi art untuk mengisi aktivitas rutin harian dan menurunkan tingkat kesepian pada lansia.
There has been increasing attention to the use of teletherapy in art therapy with accessibility at the forefront of the argument for its use. Concerns have persisted around how to use art materials ...and media for therapeutic gain in a digital platform. The debate quickly needed to be reconsidered as the shutdown orders surrounding COVID-19 forced many of us to adopt online art therapy practice.
My child, teen and family art therapy outpatient practice in the Northeast United States, quickly pivoted online in late March. This move entailed establishing a new framework for creating a 'magic circle' for emotional resonance to create positive change.
Adapting a new framework, we established routines and rituals for engaging even our youngest clients. Ethics and boundaries needed to be established in a new landscape of service delivery.
Adaptation enabled us to work with our clients. While many things worked, art making and responsiveness to client needs proved to be challenges, along with the limits of technology and other distractions.
We are now more adept, have developed shared art tools, and can assess how to build a working alliance for online art therapy practice.
Massive use of online art therapy affords us the opportunity to look at how it may operate in a virtual world. Research may parse out best practices, what doesn't work, and for whom it might work best, and look at issues surrounding working alliance, therapist responsiveness and sensory processes in online art therapy.
The world-wide pandemic of 2020 forced therapists to provide services online. My art therapy practice was no exception. We immediately had to pivot our child-centered art therapy services to online platforms and adapt our approach. The 'magic circle' framework that we create through our physical space, presence and three modes of engagement during art therapy were translated into telehealth. This framework is explained with two case vignettes to suggest both challenges to online art therapy practice as well as the success of the new model. Implications for research are discussed.
The research aims to identify the extent to which the theatrical and musical arts contribute to diagnosing and treating psychological problems among the residents of children’s villages in Jordan, ...and the methodologies adopted by the theatrical and musical arts to achieve this. It moves on to prove the theory that theatrical and musical arts have an impact on improving the psychology of the residents of children’s villages in Jordan by reviewing the theories and opinions that address the subject from a scientific point of view proven by experiences and expertise. The research took place in the period between (2019-2020), and the spatial limits came within the (SOS) children's villages in Jordan. The importance of the research is to provide a frame of reference for researchers and specialists in treating children’s psychological problems using the arts, and the research can benefit those engaged in theatrical and musical art, including authors, directors, actors, critics, composers, singers...etc, as well as providing benefit to academic institutions concerned with theatrical and musical arts and psychological and educational sciences.