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‘Coming out’ can be a psychologically challenging event and parental acceptance is often a prime concern. This article reports a study on the impact of music sessions delivered online and jointly for dyads of parents and their young adult children with lesbian and gay sexual identities in improving parental acceptance of sexual orientation, parent adult relationships, and wellbeing, compared to a waitlist control group. The music sessions were effective (Hedges’ g= −0.91 to 0.67; p < 0.05) and participants with higher formal education (postgraduate or professional degree), and whose intervention compliance was higher (>50% music sessions attended and homework sessions completed), were reported higher post-test scores on perceived parental support on sexual orientation, positive dimensions of parent adult relationships (warmth or affection, thoughtfulness, doing favors, and support of decisions made), and wellbeing, and lower post-test scores on negative dimensions of parent adult relationships (anger/hostility, insensitivity, demanding favors, and doubts on decisions made). Actor-partner interdependence models suggested that post-test outcome scores of parents and young adults were mutually interdependent and associated. With adequate emphasis on program compliance and some refinements for participant dyads with less formal education, music sessions enhance relationality and can be an effective family-based intervention for persons with diverse sexual identities.

Surveys show that only 14% of those in need of palliative care actually receive it. The creative arts therapies can respond to this growing need. The current mixed-methods pilot study was part of a larger European Erasmus+ project entitled Death Education for Palliative Psychology that was conducted from 2019 to 2022 in five countries. This report examined the experiences of 20 creative arts therapies master’s degree students in Israel enrolled in an online course on arts-based palliative and bereavement care. The students who completed the course reported a significantly greater commitment to engaging in a career in palliative and bereavement care than students in the control group. The students considered the course important for their training. The curriculum helped them to communicate end-of-life in both personal and professional situations. The arts provided a bridge for processing death-related issues. The students also reported the challenges they encountered during the course and their thoughts for future directions. Overall, these findings point to a field requiring more investigation that is essential to the training of creative arts therapies students and future therapists.

Military service members (SMs) have an increased risk of developing posttraumatic stress symptoms. Art therapy is a promising intervention that allows SMs with posttraumatic stress to explore their trauma through art-making and reflection in a psychotherapeutic relationship. Thematic analysis of art products may lend itself as a description of visual indicators of an internal state of the brain. We hypothesized that specific neurobiological markers are associated with the theme of psychological closure and/or healing of traumatic memories as represented in the masks created during art therapy. Resting state fMRIs of a convenience sample of 104 SMs who received art therapy as part of the interdisciplinary Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence were examined. SMs depicting psychological closure and/or healing within their art therapy masks demonstrated greater resting state functional connectivity between regions associated with attention, memory, language, and pain processing. These findings are preliminary in nature therefore causal relationships cannot be assumed between art therapy and neuroimaging metrics, as both art therapy and neuroimaging measures were collected as part of a larger integrative IOP. Future work collecting neuroimaging metrics pre and post an art therapy intervention is warranted to further evaluate these associations.

Background

Music (MT) and art therapy (AT) have a positive effect on the regulation of emotions in patients with cancer. Our aim was to investigate whether these creative arts therapies can reduce emotional speechlessness and use of maladaptive coping strategies.

Methods

We conducted a pilot study using a pre-post design with a total of N = 22 patients who received creative arts therapy (MT or AT) and additional interventions for emotional perception and processing. Emotional speechlessness, cancer-specific coping strategies, and subjective benefit and acceptance of the interventions from the patients' perspective were assessed to measure the impact of MT and AT.

Results

A total of 19 patients participated in all assessments, with an average of M = 7.53 therapy sessions. Non-significant results indicated a trend toward a decrease in emotional speechlessness for MT participants and an increase for AT participants. Patients reported positive subjective benefits from interventions and participating in creative arts therapy.

Conclusion

Our results suggest that interventions focusing on emotional perception and processing in the context of creative arts therapy care can positively influence the reduction of emotional speechlessness and that patients accept this form of therapy.

The purpose of this study was to explore music therapists’ clinical practice in the United States for individuals with eating disorders (ED). To this aim, the researcher used a two-phase explanatory sequential mixed methods research design: (a) quantitative survey of music therapists (N = 18) in the U.S. working with clients with ED, and (b) in-depth interviews with music therapists (n = 7) who provided contact information at survey conclusion. The majority of participants had a bachelor’s or master’s degree in music therapy, worked approximately eight years with individuals with ED, and most frequently used cognitive behavioral, client-centered, or dialectical behavior therapy approaches. Participants primarily worked with adolescents and adults with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, within groups, in a variety of settings. The five most common treatment areas were self-expression, coping skills, depression, identify feelings, and express feelings, using various receptive, improvisation, composition, and re-creative interventions. The majority of MTs reported high job satisfaction and competence, perceived services as important and client responses positive. Interviewees explained and elaborated upon the results of the survey. Interviewees described aspects of safety, harm, trauma, and self-care, and highlighted importance of continued learning, training, research, observation, supervision, and skill development.

In the absence of a systematic research agenda in the field of art therapy the aim of this project was to conduct a multi-phase sequential mixed methods study. The first phase involved conducting a scoping review of publications and conference presentations to determine current research trends. The findings of the scoping review were used to initiate the second phase– the construction of a survey. The survey was disseminated to art therapists internationally and the results were used partially to generate a focus group interview protocol. The focus group was convened to explore questions from the survey requiring more in-depth examination. The integrative analysis of the data in these first two phases assisted in the development of several preliminary recommendations for identifying philosophies, methodologies, and evidence-informed practices that will advance the generation of art therapy knowledge and aid in the development of a strategic plan.

Today, it is increasingly likely that art therapy trainees would need to navigate multiple professional identities, which can be challenging for the professional development of their art therapist identity. This heuristic self-inquiry aims to address the gap in literature by exploring the experience of navigating multiple professional identities from the perspective of an occupational therapist/art therapy trainee from the Asia-Pacific region. Data was collected through the researcher’s use of written and art-based journalling, including the use of the El Duende one-canvas process painting (EDPP). The six layers of the EDPP reflected the changes and tensions within the researcher’s views of professional identity over time and highlighted the need to examine the artist identity in conjunction with the emerging art therapist identity. Implications for strengthening the artist-art therapist identity through ongoing reflective artmaking practice are discussed.

In this study we sought to capture the experiences of parents who had attended a parent-infant art therapy group to support their wellbeing and attachment relationships. The groups lasted 12 weeks and had a focus on using shared art making experiences to bring the dyads into positive interactions. 50 parents attended the groups with their children. We asked them to complete surveys at the end of the art therapy group and later followed up a sample of participants for in depth interviews. We analysed both of these using reflexive thematic analysis. Our organisation of themes lays out the difficulties facing parents, what enabled them to take part, the mechanisms of change within the art therapy intervention, and the outcomes parents observed. The analysis evidences the changes parents identified in how they felt themselves and how they felt about their baby, with an important shift to enjoying their role as parents, feeling more confident about their parenting, tuning in to their babies’ cues, and enjoying the emerging personalities of their babies. It highlights the potential of art therapy to support parental wellbeing and parent-infant attachment relationships.

Methods to promote professionals’ self-knowledge and affinity for therapeutic alliances may be valuable to facilitate clients’ journeys towards recovery. This article illuminates how the use of creative art diaries can support the development of generic professional competencies in therapeutic work with clients. The methods entailed the construction of a telling case. This case was based on an autoethnographic approach to a creative art project created within the context of an expressive arts based program. The case was analysed with inspiration from Peirce’s semiotic and van Gennep’s theory of rites of passages. The findings showed how work with a creative art diary could be understood in terms of representamens and objects. The diary was interpreted as useful in different ways to facilitate transitions between phases of separation, liminality, and incorporation regarding the development of generic professional competencies and self-awareness in therapeutic work with clients. Conclusively, creative art diaries could be useful to develop self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-reflection, and self-reflexivity in the development of generic professional competencies regarding therapeutic work with clients, which per se could facilitate therapeutic alliances and recovery oriented practices. However, they must be supported in the process by possible interpretations, and by ways to support the professionals’ competencies regarding sociological understandings of client meetings.

This study investigated the relationship between virtual Art Hives, a community art studio program, and positive and negative affect in 24 undergraduate college students. Past research indicated a sharp increase in anxiety disorders and depression in adults in the United States (Gallagher, 2010). However, art making has been shown to decrease negative affect and increase positive affect. Furthermore, a strong sense of community has been shown to buffer against symptoms of anxiety and depression. In this study, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS: Watson & Clark, 1988) and the Sense of Community Index-2 (SCI-2: Chavis et al., 2008) measured sense of community and changes in affect before and after virtually participating in an Art Hive. Participants could use any materials available to them during participation. Results showed significant improvements in positive affect after participation but no significant changes in negative affect. Additionally, sense of community was found to be a significant predictor of changes in positive affect. These findings suggest that a brief period of art making virtually with other people can significantly improve positive affect, which may have implications for art studio communities as resources for the well-being of college students and others.