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Authors: Persephone Sextou , Stelios Kiosses

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Witnessing illness in childhood and hospitalization can be deeply challenging experiences for researchers, yet the emotional labor involved often remains unspoken. This article explores how one artist-researcher navigated the emotional impact of conducting research in pediatrics through arts-based autoethnography and reflective practice. Through drawings, journaling, and metaphor, the first author shares her emotional journey during a 4-month research period in a children’s hospital. A psychodynamic therapist offers a series of reflections on the emotional material presented, offering clinical insight into metaphors for emotional safety. Together, this dialogic format provides a model for understanding and supporting emotional well-being in challenging research settings. The article concludes that arts-based autoethnographic methods provide a powerful tool for reflection, emotional processing, and knowledge generation. Building on these insights, we introduce a preliminary framework designed to guide researchers working in healthcare and other emotionally sensitive environments through creative and reflective approaches.
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Authors: Hideki Takahashi , Yukari Sakiyama

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This study presents the first literature review of dance/movement therapy (DMT) intervention studies conducted in Japan using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews. It aims to examine participants, outcome measures, intervention methods, effects, and study quality. Searches were conducted using Japanese databases, including Ichushi, CiNii, and Medical-Online, and English databases, including PubMed and Google Scholar, along with the Japanese Journal of Dance Therapy and the American Journal of Dance Therapy. Nine studies met the inclusion criteria. Findings revealed the following: levels of evidence: level 2, two studies; level 3, three studies; level 4, four studies; most common participants: individuals with intellectual disabilities (n=42, 24.8%); 13 (35.1%) of 37 outcome measures were standardized or objective; most used intervention: structured (n=5, 50.0%); frequent effects: improved balance and positive expression (both n=3, 13.0%).
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Authors: Nidhi Kiran Bhandari , Nanditha Gogate

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Growing up in the South Asian city of Bengaluru and experiencing its rapid development left us feeling isolated, uprooted from community, and ourselves. We develop an outdoor peer-art practice: the na-dhi method to reflect on changing ideas of home. In the course of the study, we use the practice to reflect on larger conversations on alienation and the question of access to public spaces in an urban Indian context.
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Authors: Vivien Speiser , Tony Yu Zhou

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This global webinar report synthesizes key insights from international leaders in the field of arts in health, tracing the field’s evolution, emerging research, and the growing call for decolonized, community-centered practice. Drawing on the work of Vivien Speiser and Tony Yu Zhou, Jill Sonke, Naj Wikoff, Susan Magsamen, Nsamu Moonga, and David Leventhal, the report highlights how the arts serve as a vital modality of healing, health equity, and social transformation. Integrating research from the World Health Organization and major US arts organizations, the webinar panelists advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration and culturally grounded practices that position creativity as both a human right and a health imperative.
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Authors: Krystal L. Demaine , Amelia R. Castelli

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This article examines an arts-based research method that explores the intersection of meditation practice, landscape photography, and mixed-media response art. The original methodology and results were developed by the first author, who was mentored by the second author, the thesis advisor, during Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis work. The study hypothesizes that creating visual art in response to meditations in natural environments could lead to greater understanding of oneself, open space for vulnerability, and deepen a personal connection to nature and the ecology of one’s spirit. The method was conducted in four phases, starting with a daily meditation practice in natural outdoor environments, which was documented through photography, sketches, and written journals. Photographs and sketches of outdoor landscapes where the meditations took place were responded to with mixed–media art-making, resulting in five mixed-media collages created with layers of magazine clippings, tissue paper, pastel, acrylic paint, and pen on paper bags, vellum, and transparent Mylar. The collages illustrated photographic landscapes and layered soft colors, which were intended to bring viewers into a meditative environment to contemplate both the transparency and the layers in the final collage work. The use of visual art in response to meditation is discussed as a means of examining one’s inner concept, state of awareness, and relationships to the natural environment.
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Ono Academic College, Israel
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International peer-reviewed journal in arts, therapy, education, and health.

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Lesley University, USA
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University Professor Emeritus
Lesley University, USA
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Inspirees Institute, China
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University of Utah, USA
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Ono Academic College, Israel
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University of Algarve, Portugal
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