A 5-Minute Intro to Therapy!
Each year, the first week of October in the US/CAN is National Mental Illness Awareness Week. During this week, organizations like the National Alliance on…
Category: Arts therapies
Help Children and Adolescents Heal with These Resources from Dawn D’Amico
In this blog, Dawn D’Amico speaks about her inspiration for writing Conversation-Starters for Working with Children and Adolescents After Trauma and about her work helping…
An Introduction to Special Interests in Art Therapy with Autistic People
This blog contains a selection of excerpts chosen by author Jessica Woolhiser Stallings from chapter one of Special Interests in Art Therapy with Autistic People:…
Tired of Overthinking? Try This Exercise from Dr. Amy Backos
In this blog, Dr. Amy Backos, author of ACT Art Therapy and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Art Therapy, provides a simple diffusion exercise that can…
New ways of working: Art Psychotherapy and Innovation in a post-pandemic world
Promoting new ways of working in the art psychotherapies in a post-pandemic world and an increasing need for therapies.
Q&A: Irene Renzenbrink – Author of ‘An Expressive Arts Approach to Healing Loss and Grief’
Drawing on expertise in both expressive arts and grief counselling, this new book from Irene Renzenbrink highlights the use of expressive arts therapeutic methods in…
Reviews of ‘Early Childhood Music Therapy and Autism Spectrum Disorder, Second Edition’
Early Childhood Music Therapy and Autism Spectrum Disorder, Second Edition: Supporting Children and Their Families, edited by Petra Kern and Marcia Humpal, is about music…
Arts Therapies with People with Physical Disabilities: An Archetypal Approach
Marion Gordon-Flower, author of “Arts Therapies with People with Physical Disabilities” discusses discoveries through COVID-19 lockdowns. The arrival of COVID-19 to Aotearoa New Zealand was…
Q&A with Beliz Demircioglu
Beliz Demircioglu answers questions around her book, “Improvisation in the Expressive and Performing Arts”. What inspired you to write this book? I have always been…
How Yehudit Silverman’s new book can help people express themselves through creative arts therapies
Yehudit Silverman, a creative arts therapist, Professor Emerita, and award-winning filmmaker, draws from 20 years of ground-breaking work in exploring how myths, fairy tales, and…