Expressive Therapies

Nicholas Mazza, Ph.D., is Dean and Professor Emeritus at the Florida State University, College of Social Work, Tallahassee, FL. Dr. Mazza holds Florida licenses in psychology, clinical social work, and marriage and family therapy. Dr. Mazza is the founding (1987) and current editor of the Journal of Poetry Therapy: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Practice, Theory, Research, and Education. Dr. Mazza received the "Pioneer Award" from the National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT) in 1997. In 2017, he received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from NAPT. Dr. Mazza, a marathon runner, is the founder of the College of Social Work Arts and Athletics Community Outreach Program for At-Risk Youth established at Florida State University (FSU) in 2011. He currently serves on the editorial boards of The Arts in Psychotherapy, the Journal of Family Social Work, and the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.

Volume I Poetry Therapy





Acknowledgements

Chronological table

Dedication

Editor's acknowledgements

Preface

General introduction

Introduction to Volume I: poetry therapy

Part 1 Poetry therapy – theory

1 Poetry therapy in ancient Greek literature

Stephen Rojcewicz

2 Poetry therapy as a tool of cognitively based practice

Kathryn S. Collins, Rich Furman and Carol L. Langer

3 The nuances of metaphor theory for constructivist psychotherapy

Dennis Tay

4 Effectiveness of poetry therapy as an adjunct to self-psychology in clinical work with older adults: a single case study

Anjana Deshpande

Part 2 Poetry therapy – practice

5 Breaking barriers: using poetry as a tool to enhance diversity understanding with youth and adults

Norma D. Thomas and Raina J. León

6 Healing traditions in Black women’s writing: resources for poetry therapy

Stephanie Y. Evans

7 Looking out and looking in: journeys to self-awareness and empathy through creative juxtapositions

Geri Giebel Chavis

8 Poetry/creative writing for an arts and athletics community outreach program for at-risk youth

Nicholas Mazza

9 From destruction to creation, from silence to speech: poetry therapy principles and practices for working with suicide grief

Shanee Stepakoff

10 Working with metaphor in narrative therapy

Teresa Legowski and Keith Brownlee

11 The metaphors they carry: exploring how veterans use metaphor to describe experiences of PTSD

Patrick S. Foley

12 The use of poetry in reconciling unfinished business near end-of-life

Annemarie Conlon

13 Potential misuses of poetry therapy: a process for reflecting on practice

Ted Bowman

14 The use of poetry therapy in crisis intervention and short-term treatment: two case studies

Julie A. Schwietert

15 The healing power of writing: applying the expressive/creative component of poetry therapy

Kathleen Connolly Baker and Nicholas Mazza

16 Writing therapy using new technologies—the art of blogging

D. M. Nagel and K. Anthony

Part 3 Poetry therapy – research

17 A content analysis of poems most frequently utilized by poetry therapists

Leah Olson-McBride

18 Evaluating the use of poetry to improve well-being and emotional resilience in cancer patients

Ingrid Tegnér, John Fox, Robin Philipp and Pamela Thorne

19 Poetry therapy: an investigation of a multidimensional clinical model

Nicholas F. Mazza and Christopher J. Hayton

20 "Poem Is What?" Poetic inquiry in qualitative social science research

Monica Prendergast

21 The benefits of writing and performing in the spoken word poetry community

Nadia Alvarez and Jack Mearns

22 Internet-based expressive writing for kidney transplant recipients: effects on posttraumatic stress and quality of life

Kyle Possemato, Paige Ouimette and Pamela A. Geller





Volume II Music Therapy





Acknowledgements

Introduction to Volume II: music therapy

Part 4 Music therapy – theory

23 Analogy and metaphor in music therapy. Theory and practice

Henk Smeijsters

24 Concepts of context in music therapy

Randi Rolvsjord and Brynjulf Stige

25 A conceptual methodology to define the therapeutic function of music

Deanna Hanson-Abromeit

Part 5 Music therapy – practice

26 From uprooting to replanting: on post-trauma group music therapy for pre-school children

Rivka Felsenstein

27 Use of the iso principle as a central method in mood management: a music psychotherapy clinical case study

Annie Heiderscheit and Amy Madson

28 Music therapy practices and processes with foster-care youth: formulating an approach to clinical work

Michael L. Zanders

29 Playing with sound: the therapeutic use of music in direct work with children

Michelle Lefevre

30 Singing for healing and hope: music therapy methods that use the voice with individuals who are homeless and mentally ill

Yasmine Afif Iliya

31 Song discussion as music psychotherapy

Susan C. Gardstrom and James Hiller

32 Rap music in social work practice with African-American and Latino youth

Edgar H. Tyson

33 Song to self: promoting a therapeutic dialogue with high-risk youths through poetry and popular music

Leah Olson-McBride and Timothy F. Page

Part 6 Music therapy – research

34 Music therapists’ perceptions of the impact of group factors on the therapeutic songwriting process

Felicity A. Baker

35 An investigation of the sociocultural factors impacting on the therapeutic songwriting process

Felicity A. Baker

36 The appeal of sad music: a brief overview of current directions in research on motivations for listening to sad music

Annemieke J.M. van den Tol

37 Song lyrics and the alteration of self-image

Fereshteh Ahmadi

38 The meaning of music in the lives of older people: a qualitative study

Terrence Hays and Victor Minichiello

39 Developing identities using music technology in therapeutic settings

Karen Burland and Wendy Magee





Volume III Dance/Movement Therapy and Drama Therapy





Acknowledgements

Introduction to Volume III: dance therpay and drama therapy

Part 7 Dance/movement therapy

7.1 Theory

40 In search of a vocabulary of embodiment

Roz Carroll

41 Creating dances to transform inner states: a choreographic model in Dance/Movement Therapy

Himmat Kaur Victoria

42 Intersensory and intersubjective attunement: philosophical approach to a central element of dance movement psychotherapy

Katalin Vermes

43 Grounding: theoretical application and practice in dance movement therapy

Patricia de Tord and Iris Bräuninger

7.2 Practice

44 The use of metaphors in dance movement therapy

Rosemarie Samaritter

45 The body and nonverbal expression in dance/movement group therapy and verbal group therapy

Joan Wittig

46 Breathwork in body psychotherapy: clinical applications

Himmat Kaur VIctoria and Christine Caldwell

47 Movement psychotherapy in a hospice: two case studies

Cristina Endrizzi, Valeria Ghelleri, Mirella Palella and Gabriella d’Amico

48 Working with withdrawn adolescents as a moving experience: a community resourced project exploring the usefulness of group dance movement psychotherapy within a school setting

Linda Eke and Anne Marie Gent

49 Reflection, reflective practice and embodied reflective practice

Jennifer Leigh and Richard Bailey

7.3 Research

50 Using a dance/movement therapy-based wellness curriculum: an adolescent case study

Kendall Pauline Hagensen

51 Languaging the embodied experience

Heidrun Panhofer and Helen Payne

52 Dance/Movement Therapy (D/MT) for depression: a scoping review

Andrea Mala, Vicky Karkou and Bonnie Meekums

53 Therapeutic dancing for Parkinson’s Disease

Lorenna Pryscia Carvalho Aguiar, Priscila Alves da Rocha and Meg Morris

54 Specific dance movement therapy interventions—which are successful? An intervention and correlation study

Iris Bräuninger

55 Dance movement therapy group intervention in stress treatment: a randomized controlled trial (RCT)

Iris Bräuninger

56 Diversity and dance: exploring the therapeutic implications of world dance

Shainna Ali, Katelyn Cushey and Alina Siddiqui

57 The use of movement-based interventions with children diagnosed with autism for psychosocial outcomes—a scoping review

Keven Lee, Heather Lambert, Walter Wittich, Eva Kehayia and Melissa Park

Part 8 Drama therapy

8.1 Theory

58 Comedic improv therapy for the treatment of social anxiety disorder

Alison Phillips Sheesley, Mark Pfeffer and Becca Barish

59 Philosophy of life: J. L. Moreno's revolutionary philosophical underpinnings of psychodrama and group psychotherapy

Peter C. Howie

60 Social constructionism and dramatherapy: creating alternative discourses

Daphne Milioni

61 The implicated witness: towards a relational aesthetic in dramatherapy

Nisha Sajnani

8.2 Practice

62 Theater of the oppressed in an after-school program: middle school students' perspectives on bullying and prevention

Foram Nhukhanwala

63 A dramatherapy case study with a young man who has dual diagnosis of intellectual disability and mental health problems

Rinat Feniger-Schaal

64 Staging dramatic enactments to resolve conflicts in couples

Daniel J. Wiener

65 Developmental transformations: improvisational drama therapy with children in acute inpatient psychiatry

Adam Reynolds

66 Performance as art-based research in drama therapy supervision

Robert Landy, Maria Hodermarska, Dave Mowers and David Perrin

67 Using the 6-Key Model as an intervention tool in drama therapy

Susana Pendzik

68 Voices of pride: drama therapy with incarcerated women

Abigail Leeder and Colleen Wimmer

69 Playback theatre and narrative therapy: introducing a new model

Adi Barak

70 The place of psychodramatic methods and concepts in conventional group and individual therapy

Adam Blatner

71 Kindergarten Truck: participatory play in public

Andrew M. Gaines

8.3 Research

72 Evaluating the efficacy of drama therapy in teaching social skills to children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Miranda d’Amico, Corinne Lalonde and Stephen Snow

73 Piloting PlayWrite: feasibility and efficacy of a playwriting intervention for at-risk adolescents

Rosemary E. Bernstein, Jennifer C. Ablow, Kelly C. Maloney and Joel T. Nigg

74 A step toward empirical evidence: operationalizing and uncovering drama therapy change processes

Calli Renee Armstrong, Mira Rozenberg, Margaret A. Powell, Jade Honce, Leslie Bronstein, Gabrielle Gingras and Evie Han

75 Three challenges for drama therapy research: Keynote NADTA conference, Montreal 2013

Phil Jones

76 A combined drama-based and CBT approach to working with self-reported anger aggression

Janine Blacker, Andy Watson and Anthony R. Beech

77 Participating in a community theatre production: a dramatherapeutic perspective

Tina Pyman and Sue Rugg

78 Classroom drama therapy program for immigrant and refugee adolescents: a pilot study

Cécile Rosseau, Maryse Benoit, Marie-France Gauthier, Louise Lacroix, Néomée Alain, Musuk Viger Rojas, Alejandro Moran and Dominique Bourassa

79 Life-crossroads on stage: integrating life review and drama therapy for older adults

Shoshi Keisari and Yuval Palgi





Volume IV Art Therapy and Integrated Arts Therapy





Acknowledgements

Introduction to Volume IV: art therapy

Part 9 Art therapy

9.1 Theory

80 Positive art therapy: linking positive psychology to art therapy theory, practice, and research

Rebecca A. Wilkinson and Gioia Chilton

81 Art therapy for combat-related PTSD: recommendations for research and practice

Kate Collie, Amy Backos, Cathy Malchiodi and David Spiegel

82 Out of our mind. Art therapy and mindfulness with refugees, political violence and trauma

Debra Kalmanowitz and Rainbow T.H. Ho

83 Therapeutic qualities of clay-work in art therapy and psychotherapy: a review

Michal Sholt and Tami Gavron

84 The Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC): interdisciplinary bases of the ETC

Vija Bergs Lusebrink, Kristīne Mārtinsone and Ilze Dzilna-Šilova

85 Coordinating principles of art therapy and DBT

Jessica I. Heckwolf, M. Christy Bergland and Maria Mouratidis

86 Art therapy and social action: a transpersonal framework

Dan Hocoy

9.2 Practice

87 A task-oriented approach to art therapy in trauma treatment

Anita B. Rankin and Lindsey C. Taucher

88 Creating a framework: art therapy elicits the narrative

Karen Harber

89 A case example of art therapy in relation to Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

Karen Huckvale and Malcolm Learmonth

90 Using artist trading cards as an expressive arts intervention in counseling

Marta Garrett

91 Between water and words: reflective self-awareness and symbol formation in art therapy

Jonathan Isserow

92 Making art from memories: honoring deceased loved ones through a scrapbooking bereavement group

Mary Kohut

93 Social action in practice: shifting the ethnocentric lens in cross-cultural art therapy encounters

Lynn Kapitan

94 Stories in the cloth: art therapy and narrative textiles

Lisa Raye Garlock

9.3 Research

95 Establishing a research agenda for art therapy: a Delphi study

Donna Kaiser and Sarah Deaver

96 Art therapy for relief of symptoms associated with HIV/AIDS

Deepa Rao, Nancy Nainis, Lisa Williams, Daughon Langner, Audra Eisin and Judith Paice

97 Art promoting mental health literacy and a positive attitude towards people with experience of mental illness

Eugen Koh and Bradley Shrimpton

98 An art therapy exploration of immigration with Latino families

Debra Linesch, Hilda C. Aceves, Paul Quezada, Melissa Trochez and Elena Zuniga

99 Art therapy with sexually abused children and adolescents: extended research study

Terry Pifalo

100 Approaches to art therapy for cancer inpatients: research and practice considerations

Nancy A. Nainis

101 Art therapy in art museums: promoting social connectedness and psychological well-being of older adults

Rose Bennington, Amy Backos, Jennifer Harrison, Arnell Etherington Reader and Richard Carolan

Part 10 Integrated arts therapies

10.1 Theory

102 Response/ability: imagining a critical race feminist paradigm for the creative arts therapies

Nisha Sajnani

103 Expressive artistic therapies as mind–body medicine

Patricia Sherwood

104 Positive art: artistic expression and appreciation as an exemplary vehicle for flourishing

Tim Lomas

10.2 Practice

105 Playing in the mud: health psychology, the arts and creative approaches to health care

Paul M. Camic

106 The healing power of symbolization in the aftermath of massive war atrocities: examples from Liberian and Sierra Leonean survivors

Shanee Stepakoff

107 Meeting the needs of urban students: creative arts therapy in Jersey City public schools

Cindy Lou Nelson

108 Using arts activism and poetry to catalyze human rights engagement and reflection

Jane McPherson and Nicholas Mazza

109 Using computer technology in expressive arts therapy practice: a proposal for increased use

Sarah Evans

110 Voices in flight: integrating movement/dance with poetry therapy

Nicholas Mazza

111 The integration of healing rituals in group treatment for women survivors of domestic violence

Karen Neuman Allen and Danielle F. Wozniak

112 A story of a healing relationship: the person-centered approach in expressive arts therapy

Sunhee Kim

10.3 Research

113 Creative arts as a public health resource: moving from practice-based research to evidence-based practice

Stephen Clift

114 Child-centered expressive arts and play therapy: school groups for at-risk adolescent girls

Kristi L. Perryman, Rochelle Moss and Katt Cochran

115 Expressive arts therapy group helps improve mood state in an acute care psychiatric setting

Grace Chiu, Janine Hancock and Andrea Waddell

116 Expressive group therapy with at-risk African American adolescent girls

Karly S. Stuart and Ma. Teresa G. Tuason

117 Science as art: axiology as a central component in methodology and evaluation of Arts-Based Research (ABR)

Michael Viega

118 The effects of an expressive arts therapy group on female counselors-in-training: a qualitative study

Elizabeth A. Keller-Dupree and Kristi L. Perryman

119 Impact of integrated arts therapy: an intervention program for young female offenders in correctional institution

Kristi Kõiv and Lii Kaudne