Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth

Marygrace Berberian is a clinical assistant professor at New York University. Ms. Berberian has invested her 25 year career establishing community-based art therapy initiatives for children and families at-promise. Benjamin Davis is a psychotherapist, educator, and consultant in New York City, focusing on non-pathologizing treatment models for LGBTQ individuals across the lifespan.

1. Introduction; 2. Creative Problem Solving in Art Therapy: An Overview of Benefits to Promote Resilience; 3. Art as Communication for Young People; Part I Disruptions in Early Individual Development; 4. "My Passed!!!": A Case Study in the Efficacy of Art Therapy with Adolescents with Complex Trauma and Attachment Disruptions; 5. Promoting Resilience Through Attachment in Early Childhood Art Therapy Intervention; 6. The Mind, the Body, and the Creative Process: Embodied Representations in Art Therapy; 7. Building a Therapeutic Relationship with Children who Have Severe and Multiple Disabilities; 8. On Becoming Whole: Paul’s Journey Through Heart Transplant; 9. Strength-Based Art Therapy With Adolescent Psychiatric Patients; 10. DASH©—Draw a SuperHero: The Role and Significance of the Superhero in the Art of Children With Trauma; 11. Finding Safe Places in "Jars": Stamping Containers in Substance Use Treatment; 12. From Black and White to Color: Staying in the Metaphor Alongside Male Adolescents With Problematic Sexual Behaviors; Part II Disruptions in Family Systems; 13. Cultivating Resilience Through Creative Altruism with Institutionalized Youth in Foster Care; 14. Effects of Art Therapy on Identity and Self-Esteem in Adolescents in the Foster Care System; 15. ARTogether: Putting Community at the Center of Family Visits; 16. Drawing to Disclose: Empowering Child Victims and Witnesses in Investigative Interviews; 17. Resilience of Youth Overcoming Divorce-Related Stressors; Part III Consequences of Global and Systemic Stress and Inequalities; 18. Conflict and Displacement: Finding the Space for Creativity; 19. Neither Here nor There: Art Therapy with Unaccompanied Adolescents Seeking Asylum in the US; 20. Making Artistic Noise: Amplifying the Voices of Court-Involved Youth; 21. Fighting Isolation and Celebrating Gender Diversity: Art Therapy With Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth; 22. School-Based Art Therapy: Filling the Void; 23. A Journey of Hope: Art Therapy with an Unaccompanied Minor; 24. Art Therapy with Bereaved Youth; 25. Learning from Mistakes in Adolescent Art Therapy