Consuming Art & Creating Art
This blog post was written by JKP author of ACT Art Therapy and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Art Therapy Amy Backos, PhD, ATR-BC. Throughout humankind…
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Building Better Therapeutic Relationships with Children
This blog post was written by JKP author of Building Better Therapeutic Relationships with Children, Deborah Schroder. The voice on the phone sounded familiar, and…
Bridging the Creative Arts Therapies and Arts in Health: Toward Inspirational Practice
This blog post was written by Co-Editors Donna Betts and Val Huet. Many significant world events have occurred since we first conceived of this book:…
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…
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.
Yehudit Silverman Discusses the Power of Creative Arts Therapies
The Story Within: Myth and Fairy Tale in Therapy: This book is for therapists, artists, seekers, of all mediums, offering a unique and creative process…
Improvisation in the performing arts: shaping or letting go?
In a museum in Istanbul, the dancer stands on a stone about one meter square, set several feet above the ground. She has very little…