{"title":"The creative arts therapies and the climate crisis: Toward a framework for conscious engagement","authors":"Heather McLaughlin , Deborah Seabrook","doi":"10.1016/j.aip.2025.102255","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the face of the deepening climate emergency, the field of creative arts therapies must intensify its engagement in and commitment to climate action. Creative arts therapists hold unique skills to promote positive social change, foster deep reflection and expression on the impacts of the crisis, facilitate creative problem solving, and inspire visioning and innovation for better futures. To help consider how these skills can be harnessed, the authors propose a framework that can be used across the creative arts therapies modalities and be adapted within different theoretical approaches to invite intentional climate reflection and suggest different types of action. This framework can help creative arts therapists to determine ways their professional practices can be more aligned with values of climate wellness, including their work with clients, roles as educators to participants in learning contexts, and their roles within their professional workplaces and greater communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47590,"journal":{"name":"Arts in Psychotherapy","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102255"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arts in Psychotherapy","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197455625000085","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In the face of the deepening climate emergency, the field of creative arts therapies must intensify its engagement in and commitment to climate action. Creative arts therapists hold unique skills to promote positive social change, foster deep reflection and expression on the impacts of the crisis, facilitate creative problem solving, and inspire visioning and innovation for better futures. To help consider how these skills can be harnessed, the authors propose a framework that can be used across the creative arts therapies modalities and be adapted within different theoretical approaches to invite intentional climate reflection and suggest different types of action. This framework can help creative arts therapists to determine ways their professional practices can be more aligned with values of climate wellness, including their work with clients, roles as educators to participants in learning contexts, and their roles within their professional workplaces and greater communities.
期刊介绍:
The Arts in Psychotherapy is a dynamic, contemporary journal publishing evidence-based research, expert opinion, theoretical positions, and case material on a wide range of topics intersecting the fields of mental health and creative arts therapies. It is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing 5 issues annually. Papers are welcomed from researchers and practitioners in the fields of art, dance/movement, drama, music, and poetry psychotherapy, as well as expressive and creative arts therapy, neuroscience, psychiatry, education, allied health, and psychology that aim to engage high level theoretical concepts with the rigor of professional practice. The journal welcomes contributions that present new and emergent knowledge about the role of the arts in healthcare, and engage a critical discourse relevant to an international readership that can inform the development of new services and the refinement of existing policies and practices. There is no restriction on research methods and review papers are welcome. From time to time the journal publishes special issues on topics warranting a distinctive focus relevant to the stated goals and scope of the publication.