Pub Date : 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2025.102337
Jemma Moody-Pugh , Kate Renshaw , Judi Parson
War-affected children, including those living with ongoing war and conflict and refugee children who have fled to safety experience the impacts of trauma associated with violence, displacement, grief and loss. This scoping review, guided by the JBI Scoping Review Methodology (2015) and PRISMA guidelines, explores play-based interventions with war-affected children to support recovery from the impacts of trauma. 81 articles were identified in the initial search and 19 studies were screened in for review. Studies were coded against Paris Goodyear-Brown’s TraumaPlay Model (2010) to determine the suitability of play-based interventions, including play therapy, with this population. Aligned with three stages of the refugee experience– living with ongoing conflict, in transit and post-resettlement – the TraumaPlay Model offers a scaffolded approach to reintegrate play into the lives of war-affected children and their families. The findings indicate that small bursts of play during ongoing conflict may support a felt sense of safety in children. Additionally, a focus on play to enhance relational safety between children and adults, is important to support attachment and bonding. In the transit stages, the literature suggests the possibility to move towards enhancing children’s emotional literacy and soothing trauma responses. Once environmental safety has been achieved post-resettlement, more targeted play therapy interventions with children, groups and families may be appropriate. Further research into play and play therapy with this population is recommended with a focus on playful connections within family systems and communities.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2025.102334
Jinah Kim , Juyoung Lee
Previous studies explored the short- and medium-term benefits of improvisational music therapy (IMT) for autistic children from both objectivist and interpretivist perspectives. The present embedded mixed-methods study integrated these approaches to examine factors influencing the process and outcomes of year-long IMT with non-speaking and minimally speaking young autistic children. Fifteen children participated in the study. Quantitative assessments measured changes in social affect, developmental levels of the children, and parent-reported quality of life. Qualitative data were gathered through post-program interviews with parents (n = 15) and therapists (n = 4), analysed using a modified grounded theory to explore key factors shaping the therapeutic process and its outcomes. Exploratory analyses further examined trends related to attunement quality and subsequent outcomes, corroborating the qualitative findings. The results indicated significant improvement in children's social-affect and developmental levels and parents' quality of life (p < 0.05) following the year-long IMT program. Key findings highlighted the critical role of 'musical-emotional attunement' in enhancing social motivation, with higher attunement linked to more positive experiences reported by parents and therapists and better outcomes across all measures. These preliminary findings suggest that the mutually influential nature of therapeutic relationships and affect sharing between the child and therapist are integral to the processes and outcomes of IMT. These findings demonstrated IMT's potential to enhance the social-emotional development of young autistic children through a relationship-driven, attuned approach, providing valuable insights for both practice and education in music therapy.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2025.102336
Rinat Podissuk-Reisner
This paper examines a case study of cross-cultural therapy, in which the therapist and client originate from markedly disparate cultural backgrounds. The therapist is a Jewish-Israeli woman (the author) and the client an Arab-Palestinian girl (A.), whose parents were ‘collaborators’ with the Israeli General Security Services, thereby introducing an additional dimension—the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Born in the West Bank, A. later relocated with her parents to Israel and attended a Hebrew, predominantly Jewish, school. During four years of therapy, A. addressed internal conflicts tensions arising from dissonant sociocultural realities and identity positions. The treatment was based on two approaches relating to the transference patterns characteristic of cross-cultural therapy. First, the relational approach, which construes the therapeutic setting as an interface between intrapsychic and interpersonal worlds, encompassing those of both therapist and client. Secondly, cross-cultural therapy approaches—cultural competence, which foregrounds cultural differences between therapist and client, and cultural humility, highlighting the unequal relationship between therapists and clients from different cultural backgrounds. I interrogate the unique transference relations that developed between myself and A., while considering both A.'s experience of cultural, ethnic, religious, and social separateness and my childhood experience of otherness as the daughter of Jewish immigrants. I argue that attention to these ethno-cultural aspects facilitated the therapy and promoted the client's personality development. The case demonstrates a voyage of the self-identified people-pleasing ‘good girl’, surrounded by Jewish friends while repressing her Arab identity, to an emerging understanding of her unique cultural identity.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2025.102335
Rowena Tam, Felice Yuen
Indigenous scholars have consistently argued that conventional research methods perpetuate the oppression and marginalization of Indigenous communities. As we consider how certain approaches have monopolized the knowledge enterprise, a need to develop alternative ways of knowing and understanding becomes apparent. In the research project “Towards Collective Healing: Addressing the Experiences of Indigenous Women in Quebec's Provincial Prison” (2022), an arts-based analysis was conducted using the art therapy intervention known as response art (Fish, 2012). Coined by Barbara J. Fish, response art involves the creation of artwork by art therapists that responds to materials from client sessions, providing a space for reflection, emotional processing, and reaction. This paper reflects on the use of research methods using the author’s response art process in analyzing interviews conducted with community workers who support Indigenous women. Response art is rooted in decolonizing methodologies, offering researchers the opportunity to foster reciprocity through a dynamic and alternative approach to crafting knowledge and conducting research in the arts and sciences.
土著学者一直认为，传统的研究方法使土著社区的压迫和边缘化永久化。当我们考虑到某些方法是如何垄断了知识企业时，开发认识和理解的替代方法的需求变得显而易见。在研究项目“走向集体治疗：解决魁北克省监狱中土著妇女的经历”（2022）中，使用被称为反应艺术的艺术治疗干预进行了基于艺术的分析（Fish, 2012）。反应艺术是由芭芭拉·j·菲什（Barbara J. Fish）创造的，涉及艺术治疗师对客户会议的材料做出反应的艺术品创作，为反思、情感处理和反应提供空间。本文运用作者的回应艺术方法，分析对支持原住民妇女的社区工作者的访谈。反应艺术植根于非殖民化的方法，为研究人员提供了一个机会，通过一种动态的、可替代的方法来培养知识，并在艺术和科学领域开展研究，从而促进互惠。
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Pub Date : 2025-06-18DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2025.102329
Eliav Keidar , Lali Keidar , Nitai Melamed
Childhood emotional abuse has a decisive impact on child development and can be perpetrated by those closest to them. The current study examined intrafamilial emotional abuse, to probe the clinical question as to why individuals who were maltreated in childhood repeat this behavior in adulthood. A case study of therapy for an emotionally abusive parent is presented to illustrate a psychoanalytic conceptualization, and a psychodrama intervention model. The therapeutic intervention combines psychodrama techniques associated with a psychoanalytic interpretation designed to integrate the split parts reenacted in the abusive behavior.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-02DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2025.102320
Richard Warden , Fiona J. Stirling
While counseling and psychotherapy have utilised film for decades, and documentary film is interpretive of contemporary life as part of visual media’s ever-increasing presence, a thorough understanding of documentary’s place and potential within therapy remains underdeveloped in theory, research, and practice. Autobiographical filmmaking by clients has secured a small foothold in these contexts. However, the viewing of pre-existing documentaries is relatively rare despite such films offering narrative and metaphoric richness that could assist in the conveying and clarification of lived experience. With the intention of addressing this largely latent opportunity and prompting increased attention to the genre’s overall therapeutic utility, this paper sets out prospective practice guidelines under the title of documentalization. This is a collaborative and non-directive process through which therapist-client documentary engagement may be explored and deployed. The paper begins by outlining film-related therapy and the potential of documentary within it before offering guidelines for use and a series of anonymised case study vignettes from therapy practice. Further research around documentalization is required to provide empirical insight into therapeutic outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2025.102318
Elana Lakh
The Jungian approach to analysis emphasizes the guidance of the unconscious in the process of individuation. Art is an instrument through which this knowledge can be revealed—but it is more than just an instrument. It is a counterpart for dialogue, a mirror reflecting the unconscious, and a process through which the unconscious reveals itself and develops. Additionally, it offers a platform for new experiences, including feelings and sensations. Moreover, it provides a way to reconnect with longforgotten parts of the self and to discover new parts that have never been known. Written from the perspective of an art therapist who is also a Jungian analyst, this theoretical paper presents the fundamental aspects of using the visual arts in the Jungian analytical practice. The first part of the paper elaborates on Jung's use of art and art-making on his path of individuation and in his analytical work with analysands, including Active Imagination. The second part of the paper describes four aspects of the role of art in the practice of Jungian analysis and psychotherapy: Art can serve as a means of communication between the conscious and unconscious parts of the psyche, as well as between the analysand and the analyst. The artwork is the result of the symbol-creating quality of the transcendent function and supports it, assisting in the integration of the unconscious and conscious parts. Interpretations and amplifications are means for elaboration of the artwork as an expression of material emerging from the personal or collective unconscious. The artwork has a transitional role in the therapeutic relationship.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-26DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2025.102319
Shiri Mor Shai , Einat Shuper-Engelhard
Emerging research shows that arts therapy for an autistic population has great value and at the same time, there is a disparity between the prevalence of arts therapy groups and the lack of research on this topic. The aim of the present study was to map professional conceptions and commonly employed intervention methods of arts therapy groups for autistic preschool-age children. This was executed using a qualitative-constructivist methodology. Sixty-two group therapists in diverse arts responded to a survey questionnaire; of these, 10 participated in an in-depth, semi-structured interview. Thematic analysis of all the information gathered revealed that arts therapy groups include deliberate interventions relating to four foci of the 'here and now': 'interpersonal', 'intrapersonal', 'creative work and creativity' and 'group experience of togetherness'. The Discussion section examines the uniqueness of each theme with reference to the young age of the children and the characteristics of autism.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2025.102316
Ingrid Pénzes , Annemarie Abbing , Martina de Witte
Research on the effectiveness of Creative Arts Therapies (CATs) has significantly expanded over the past decade, yet a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms contributing to positive therapeutic outcomes remains necessary. Integrating concepts from psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience can enhance this understanding, but applying scientific theories requires assessing their robustness, validity, and relevance. This article explores how to evaluate the quality of existing theories, using Polyvagal Theory (PT) as a case study. PT has been increasingly applied in CATs research and practice to explain intervention effects on stress- and trauma-related outcomes. In addition to discussing PT’s general quality, its relevance to the field of CATs is considered, along with critical implications for practice, research, and education. The intention is to initiate an open dialogue on the appropriate use of scientific theories, such as PT, in explaining CATs’ therapeutic mechanisms. Although effort has been made to provide a well-supported discussion, opinion-based analyses inevitably involve some subjectivity. Expanding the theoretical scope beyond PT to other widely used or relevant models may further contribute to understanding the mechanisms of CATs and should be complemented by recognizing the importance of the arts in developing a rationale for CATs that is grounded in both theory and practice.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2025.102317
Gabriela Špinarová , Zuzana Svobodová , Veronika Růžičková , Petra Potměšilová , Tereza Vrbová , Lua Perimal-Lewis , Miloň Potměšil , Jana Marečková , Jiří Kantor
People with visual impairment (VI) can benefit from arts therapies (AsTs); however, this area has not been systematically reviewed, and the differences in the application of various artistic modalities and related arts-based interventions (art therapy, music therapy, drama therapy, dance/movement therapy, bibliotherapy and expressive writing) have not been thoroughly described. The aim of this paper is to: 1) map research studies on AsTs and related interventions in the therapy and rehabilitation of people with VI, and 2) identify the therapeutic effects, specific features, and necessary adaptations of AsTs for people with VI. All procedures, including the prospective publication of the protocol, search of relevant information sources, data collection and data extraction, were conducted in accordance to the JBI methodology for scoping reviews. A total of 89 relevant studies were identified, primarily in the areas of music therapy/medicine and art therapy. The reported effects of AsTs and related interventions address psychological/mental health, functioning, social and communication skills, and quality of life. Specific objectives, such as research on physiological functions or pain/anxiety management, were identified in the field of music medicine. Multimodality and the use of various adaptations are characteristic features of AsTs practice for people with VI. Current research studies describe the potential of AsTs and related interventions for people with VI; however, research on the some AsTs modalities is scarce. Future development of AsTs may focus on the therapy of visual functions and other goals specific to this population. This is the first scoping review on AsTs and related interventions for people with VI. Based on thorough searches in databases and grey literature, it provides an up-to-date map of the field. Additionally, this review compares different artistic modalities and offers an overview of potential adaptations that may be necessary in the therapeutic process. This review may be useful for the practice of art therapists and other rehabilitation professionals, including occupational therapists, special educators, clinical psychologists, nurses, vision therapists, social workers and social service workers, as well as for future research in this area.
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