Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (CAET)

Editorial

2024-08-30T13:06:30+00:00

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2024) 10(1):1–3 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2024/10/12

Editorial

Photo Essay: Intimate Representations of Displacement

2024-08-30T13:06:31+00:00

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2024) 10(1):4–20 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2024/10/11

Photo Essay: Intimate Representations of Displacement

Abstract

This photo essay is a poignant collection of artistic expressions that reflect the emotional impact of displacement in the context of World War III. Through a series of impressionistic paintings and poetic representations, the author invites readers to witness the resilience and defiance found in artistic expression during turbulent times. The essay captures a contemplative journey over the past nine months, shedding light on the quiet, intimate moments amidst chaos and turmoil. Each painting and portrayal in this collection offers a glimpse into the emotional response to global crises, weaving together darkness and glimmers of hope. As viewers immerse themselves in this evocative essay, they are prompted to reflect on the power of art as a form of resilience in the face of adversity.

Keywords: intimacy, displacement, photo essay, World War III, reflective art

摘要

这篇摄影文章是一本凄美的艺术表现形式集，反映了第三次世界大战背景离失所的情感影响。通过一系列印象派绘画和诗意的表现，作者邀请读者见证在动荡时期艺术表达中发现的韧性和反抗。这篇文章记录了过去九个月的沉思之旅，揭示了混乱和动荡中安静、亲密的时刻。该系列中的每幅画和描绘都让我们看到了对全球危机的情感反应，将黑暗和希望的曙光交织在一起。当观众沉浸在这篇令人回味的文章中时，他们被促使反思艺术作为一种面对逆境时的复原力的力量。

关键词： 亲密关系, 位移, 摄影随笔, 第三次世界大战, 反光艺术

Change Process Research in Music Therapy: Introducing a Transdisciplinary Framework

2024-08-30T13:06:31+00:00

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2024) 10(1):21–40 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2024/10/1

Change Process Research in Music Therapy: Introducing a Transdisciplinary Framework

Abstract

Music therapy is conceptualized as a systematic process of interventions and shared experiences that promote change in individualized health and wellbeing contexts. Change processes are crucial in music therapy, but little is known about certain factors, mediators, and mechanisms that cause or lead toward such change processes. There is a strong need for developments of theoretical and methodological frameworks of change in music therapy to achieve this goal. The current body of knowledge shows a lack of research on this topic, particularly on how to strategize and study change, how to understand research design and statistical analysis of change, and how to support and strengthen what is known today about change processes in music therapy. This article is grounded in theories that address complex interventions that cause a change in music and creative arts therapies as a means of guiding a dialogue about the potential for influencing research strategies and methods that investigate change processes. The review of the literature shows that although new studies about the efficacy of music therapy have been made in recent years, literature is extremely limited about predictors, moderators, shapes of change, stages of changes, processes, and mechanisms of change. There is strong evidence that music therapy works. However, it is not entirely known how, when, and why music therapy produces a change. Based on the findings in the current body of knowledge, further studies are needed to investigate every aspect of change with a pluralistic and interdisciplinary approach, which integrates methods from across the natural sciences, mathematics, arts, behavioral, and social sciences. This article introduces a framework addressing these issues, attempts to bridge current gaps in knowledge, expand capacity in the field of music therapy research, and equip clinicians, researchers, and professionals with tools and knowledge on change process research.

Keywords: change in music therapy, moderators, shape of change, process of change, mechanism of change, theoretical framework

摘要

音乐治疗被概念化为一种系统的干预和共享体验的过程, 旨在促进个体健康和福祉的变化。变化过程在音乐治疗中至关重要, 但目前对导致或引导这些变化过程的某些因素、调节因素和机制知之甚少。为了实现这一目标, 迫切需要在音乐治疗中发展理论和方法框架。目前的知识体系显示, 在如何战略性地研究变化、如何理解变化的研究设计和统计分析以及如何支持和加强当前对音乐治疗变化过程的认识方面, 研究非常匮乏。本文基于涉及引起音乐和创造性艺术治疗变化的复杂干预理论, 旨在指导关于影响研究策略和方法的对话, 研究这些变化过程。文献回顾显示, 尽管近年来有关于音乐治疗效果的新研究, 但关于变化的预测因素、调节因素、变化的形态、变化的阶段、过程和机制的文献极为有限。有强有力的证据表明音乐治疗是有效的。然而, 目前尚不完全清楚音乐治疗如何、何时以及为什么会产生变化。基于当前知识体系中的发现, 需要进一步的研究, 以多元和跨学科的方法来调查变化的各个方面, 整合自然科学、数学、艺术、行为和社会科学的方法。本文介绍了一个框架, 解决这些问题, 试图弥合当前知识的空白, 扩大音乐治疗研究领域的能力, 并为临床医生、研究人员和专业人员提供关于变化过程研究的工具和知识。

关键词： 音乐治疗中的变化, 调节因素, 变化的形态, 变化的过程, 变化的机制, 理论框架

Studio Art Therapy Learning Ecology: Crossing Borders between Art, Education, Health, and Therapy

2024-08-30T13:06:31+00:00

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2024) 10(1):41–62 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2024/10/2

Studio Art Therapy Learning Ecology: Crossing Borders between Art, Education, Health, and Therapy

Abstract

Studio Art Therapy is a unique learning ecology with border crossings between visual arts therapies and art studio practice, education, and health. The increased fluidity between research and practice spaces, art therapy, and arts health are elaborated as a concept, theorized with the western Deleuzoguattarian philosophy. Connections and differentiations between art making and art as therapy are revealed in a discussion of an empirical research project Art, Visual Narrative, and Wellbeing Project (AVNAW). Studio art therapy focuses on body, meaning, and healing. It speaks to the value of people making art, reflecting and talking about their making processes alone and together through an autoethnographic visual narrative approach to artmaking. The paper asks how studio visual artmaking can activate individual productive desire to adapt toward becoming well through artmaking. Care, community, belonging, and resilience are core to a studio art therapy learning ecology that responds to real-life experiences in the support of personal care and wellbeing.

Keywords: Deleuzoguattarian philosophy, studio art therapy, arts-based methods, arts health, art therapy, medical humanities, body and meaning

摘要

工作室艺术治疗是一种独特的学习生态，它跨越了视觉艺术治疗与艺术工作室实践、教育和健康之间的边界。本文以西方德勒祖古哲学为理论基础阐述研究和实践空间、艺术治疗和艺术健康之间的流动性的增强。通过对实证研究项目 "艺术、视觉叙事和安康项目" (AVNAW) 的讨论，本文揭示艺术创作和艺术治疗之间的联系和区别。工作室艺术治疗侧重于身体、意义和愈合。通过自述式视觉叙事的艺术创作方法，工作室艺术治疗强调从事艺术创作和(独自以及和他人)反思与谈论其创作过程的价值。本文亦问到如何使用工作室视觉艺术创作激活个人的富有成效的渴望，使其选择健康的生活。关怀、社区、归属感和复原力是工作室艺术治疗学习生态的核心。在现实生活中，这种学习生态以个人关怀和安康的支持作出了回应。

关键词： 德勒兹古阿塔哲学, 工作室艺术治疗, 艺术本位方式, 艺术健康, 艺术治疗, 医学人文, 身体与意义

The Art of Planting Rice as a Meditative Practice: Sensemaking and Equanimity about Societal Disruption through Performance Art

2024-08-30T13:06:32+00:00

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2024) 10(1):63–74 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2024/10/3

The Art of Planting Rice as a Meditative Practice: Sensemaking and Equanimity about Societal Disruption through Performance Art

Abstract

The impact of COVID-19 on Bali, Indonesia, decimated a significant part of the economy, resulting in unemployment and underemployment, which increased economic difficulties and related anxiety. Many people returned to small-holder farming to sustain their families. Away from farming, meditation is widely recognized as a means for equanimity and coping better with anxiety. In solidarity with the return to farming in Bali, the lead author of this paper created a performance art experience involving the planting of rice as a meditative practice. This paper summarizes the process and what was learned during the experience, using elements of qualitative research. The analysis affirms the role of artistic expression in supporting people’s sensemaking about societal disruption, with implications for social learning and mental well-being.

Keywords: performance art, rice, farming, agriculture, meditation, deep adaptation, resilience

摘要

COVID-19 对印度尼西亚巴厘岛的影响摧毁了经济的很大一部分，导致失业和就业不足，这增加了经济困难和相关的焦虑。许多人为了养家糊口而返回小农耕地。除了农活之外，冥想被广泛认为是平静和更好地应对焦虑的一种手段。随着巴厘岛回归农业，本文的主要作者创造了一种行为艺术体验，涉及种植水稻作为一种冥想实践。本文使用定性研究的元素总结了该过程以及在体验中学到的东西。该分析肯定了艺术表达在支持人们对社会动荡的理解方面的作用，这对社会学习和心理健康有影响。

关键词： 表演艺术, 大米, 农耕, 农业, 冥想, 深度适应, 复原力

Mural Painting and Inclusive Research in Cameroon: Implementation and Impact at the University of Bamenda Campus

2024-08-30T13:06:32+00:00

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2024) 10(1):75–96 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2024/10/4

Mural Painting and Inclusive Research in Cameroon: Implementation and Impact at the University of Bamenda Campus

Abstract

This paper describes the use of mural-making as part of the knowledge mobilization activities of an international research partnership project. The mural depicts the technical and academic activities of people with disabilities in a university setting as meaningful action in inclusive research processes. The main objective of this 30-meter mural painting on a wall in the University of Bamenda was to demonstrate that inclusive research could encourage the inclusion and participation of people with disabilities in all areas of academic and professional activities of the university. A mural-making protocol was developed by the faculty and implemented by the team. It included the collection, analysis, and understanding of data on inclusion; design of drawings and the mural; wall preparation; plotting; and execution of the actual mural. The brightly colored mural now draws attention to inclusion, provides a vision of hopefulness, and complements the narrative character of inclusive education and research on campus.

Keywords: murals, knowledge mobilization, mural painting, visual expression, inclusive research, students with disabilities, university milieu

摘要

本文描述了在国际研究合作项目知识传播活动中利用壁画制作的情况。这幅壁画描绘了包容性研究过程中的残障人在大学环境中有意义的技术和学术活动。这幅 30 米长的壁画在巴门达大学墙上绘制的主要目的是证明包容性研究可以鼓励残障人士融入和参与大学学术和专业活动的所有领域。壁画制作方案由教师制定并由残障团队实施。它包括收集、分析和理解有关包容的数据；图纸和壁画的设计；墙面准备；标图；以及实际壁画的执行。这幅色彩鲜艳的壁画现在引起了人们对包容性的关注，提供了希望的愿景，并补充了校园包容性教育和研究的叙事性。

关键词： 壁画, 知识传播, 视觉表达, 包容性研究, 残障大学生, 大学环境

Embracing the Kahankar and the Ahankar: A Reflexive Inquiry into Body, Movement, and Consciousness, Interwoven with the Warli Philosophy

2024-08-30T13:06:32+00:00

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2024) 10(1):97–111 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2024/10/6

Embracing the Kahankar and the Ahankar: A Reflexive Inquiry into Body, Movement, and Consciousness, Interwoven with the Warli Philosophy

Abstract

This article aims to deepen the understanding of existential intrasubjectivity and intersubjectivity as they relate to the body, being, and nature, as experienced through the lens of Warli philosophy, particularly the Kahankar and the Ahankar. This reflexive inquiry lies at the intersection of the author’s identity as a researcher, a dance movement therapist, and a spiritual being. The contemplation includes experiencing Nature as a witness, another facet of the Warli conviction of the profound interconnectedness with the natural world, recognizing our inherent composition as part of nature. Another dimension of engaging with this philosophy is through the practice of Authentic Movement, where the imagination, the psyche, and the soul all dance together as they are witnessed nonjudgmentally. I employed an external witness as well as used self-witnessing in the form of an “inner witness.” Lastly, it explores the dance between the body as the storyteller and the consciousness as the affirmer of the spoken word, the truth.

Keywords: Warli philosophy, Authentic Movement, consciousness, nature, cultural identity

摘要

本文旨在通过沃利哲学，特别是从《卡汉卡》和《阿汉卡》的视角，加深对身体、生存和自然界的存在主义中的主体内性和外性的理解。此反思性探究位于作者作为研究者、舞蹈动作治疗师和灵性生物的交叉点。在这沉思中，我以见证者的身份体验大自然。根据瓦利哲学，自然界是紧密联系在一起的，而我们是自然界固有的一部分。透过真实动作 (Authentic Movement) 我从另一个层面探究沃利哲学。在真实动作当中，想象力、心理和灵魂在不加批评的见证下共同起舞。我采用了外部见证者，并以"内在见证者"自我见证。最后，本文探讨身体(作为故事讲述者)与意识(作为言语和真相的证实者)之间的舞蹈。

关键词： 沃利哲学, 真实动作, 意识, 自然界, 文化特性

Cultural Appropriateness, Arts-based Care and Well-Being in Sensitive Research

2024-08-30T13:06:32+00:00

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2024) 10(1):112–125 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2024/10/9

Cultural Appropriateness, Arts-based Care and Well-Being in Sensitive Research

Abstract

This article explores the nexus of cultural appropriateness, arts-based care, and well-being in sensitive research on sexual violence, with a focus on New Zealand’s Asian community. Drawing on the author’s background as an Asian immigrant arts-based researcher, this study underscores the pivotal role of care, both culturally and through arts-based approaches, in facilitating understanding and expression. Emphasizing the importance of caring for both research participants and the researcher’s own well-being, the article advocates for culturally sensitive practices throughout the research process. It demonstrates how arts-based research methods enable creative expression and deeper cultural comprehension, enhancing care provision for participants. Moreover, the article highlights the need for culturally sensitive self-care strategies for researchers, acknowledging the emotional toll of engaging with sensitive topics. Ultimately, it calls for a more compassionate, culturally attuned, and ethically grounded approach to sensitive research within diverse cultural contexts.

Keywords: cultural appropriateness, arts-based care, Asian, youth, sexual violence survivor

摘要

本文以新西兰的亚裔社区为重点，探讨敏感(性暴力)研究中的文化适宜性、基于艺术的照料和健康的交会点。本研究利用作者的亚裔移民及艺术研究者的背景强调关怀—无论是在文化上还是艺术本位的方法—在促进理解和表达方面的关键作用。论文强调关心研究者和来访者的自身健康的重要性，并提倡在整个研究过程中采取文化上适宜的做法。艺术本位的研究方法能促进创造性表达和更深入的文化理解，从而加强对来访者的关怀和保护。此外，本文强调研究者需要采取文化上敏感的自我照料的策略，认识敏感话题的研究会造成在情感上的伤害。最终，文章呼吁采取更具仁爱、文化适宜性和基于伦理道德的方法来在不同的文化背景下进行敏感课题的研究。

关键词： 文化适宜性, 基于艺术的照料, 亚裔, 青年, 性暴力幸存者

The Lexicon of Pain: Highlighting the Advantages of Applied Theater in Pediatrics through the Lens of Psychodynamic Therapy

2024-08-30T13:06:32+00:00

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2024) 10(1):126–140 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2024/10/5

The Lexicon of Pain: Highlighting the Advantages of Applied Theater in Pediatrics through the Lens of Psychodynamic Therapy

Abstract

Applied theater for health and well-being suggests itself as an effective tool for social and emotional interaction and communication of emotions, developing creativity, imagination, and regulation of emotions during hospitalization. This paper aims to explore the value of communicating emotions through applied theater and storytelling in pediatrics and its potential in clinical practice in a discussion through the lens of psychodynamic therapy. We will explore the intersections, synergies, and possible collaborations between the theatrical form as a condition for openness and verbalizing pain and therapy as a method of processing and dealing with emotions. We discuss fictional stories told by children during applied theater and storytelling research interventions in hospitals as case studies through the lens of psychodynamic therapy with children. We explore these stories by using interdisciplinary, synthetic, and dialectic analysis between the researcher-artist and the psychodynamic therapist. We ask if the stories that hospitalized children create within theatrical interventions can help adults and clinical staff understand better the children’s lexicon of pain, leading to sensitive healthcare. The rich narrative discussion of the case studies indicates that applied theater in hospitals enhanced well-being support in children and as gateways for improved care. The core themes that emerged include empowerment, synergies and exchanges of emotions, emotional reassurance, and imagination. This analysis of hospitalized children’s stories from a psychodynamic therapist’s point of view has scope for informing alternative, nonmedical activities with children in the hospital and those who would benefit from clinical therapy and the performing arts.

Keywords: applied theater, psychodynamic therapy, pediatrics, storytelling, healthcare

摘要

用于健康和福祉的应用戏剧表明它是住院期间社交和情感互动和情感交流、发展创造力、想象和情绪调节的有效工具。在本文中，我们将其定义为一种治疗性的复杂艺术实践。本文旨在通过心理动力学治疗的视角进行讨论，探讨通过应用戏剧和叙事在儿科中交流情感的治疗价值及其在临床实践中的潜力。我们将探索戏剧形式之间的交叉、协同作用和可能的合作。戏剧形式是开放和表达痛苦的条件，而治疗是处理和处理情绪的方法。我们通过儿童心理动力学治疗的视角，讨论医院应用戏剧和叙事干预期间儿童讲述的虚构故事，并将之作为案例研究。我们通过研究艺术家和心理动力学治疗师之间的跨学科、综合和辩证分析来探索这些故事。我们询问住院儿童在戏剧介入中创造的故事是否可以帮助成人和临床工作人员更好地理解儿童的疼痛词汇，从而带来敏感的医疗保健。案例研究的丰富叙述性讨论表明，医院中的应用戏剧增强对儿童的福祉支持，并为改善护理提供了途径。出现的核心主题包括赋权、情感协同和交流、情感安慰，以及想象。从心理动力学治疗师的角度对住院儿童的故事进行分析，可以为住院儿童以及将从临床治疗和表演艺术中受益的人提供替代性非医疗活动的信息。

关键词： 应用戏剧, 心理动力治疗, 儿科, 叙事, 保健

Navigating Resilience: Developing The MAP Framework for Supporting Children Through Familial Adversity in Hong Kong

2024-08-30T13:06:32+00:00

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2024) 10(1):141–155 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2024/10/7

Navigating Resilience: Developing The MAP Framework for Supporting Children Through Familial Adversity in Hong Kong

Abstract

Formulating interventions when working with children from a wide age range who have experienced familial adversity with diverse developmental needs present significant challenges that warrant investigation. The MAP framework, which was established by a support service in Hong Kong, encompasses guidelines for both therapeutic goals and strategies to facilitate focus and clarity in the therapeutic work based on literature review, critical reflection, and feedback from participants. As therapeutic goals, M stands for mindful awareness and management of emotions, A denotes attachment building, and P refers to positive self-worth. In working toward intervention strategies, M represents mindfulness practice, and A and P refer to art and play mediums, respectively. Case examples are included to illustrate the application of the model.

Keywords: family adversity, art therapy, play therapy, mindfulness, attachment

摘要

经历过家庭逆境之儿童，因應他们的年龄跨度很大，有着不同的发展需求，在为他们制定干预措施时面临着巨大的挑战，值得研究。MAP框架是由香港的一家支持服务机构建立的，我们根据文献回顾、批判性反思和参与者的反馈意见，建立了框架，其中包括治疗目标和策略指南，以促进治疗工作的重点和清晰度。作为治疗目标，“M”代表正念意识和情绪管理，“A”表示依恋关系的建立，“P”指积极的自我价值。在介入策略方面，"M"代表正念练习，"A"和 “P”指艺术和游戏媒介。本报告还列举了一些案例, 以说明模式的应用。

关键词： 家庭逆境, 艺术疗法, 游戏疗法, 正念练习, 依附關係

Art Encircles Life: Journeying With, In, and Through the Expressive Arts

2024-08-30T13:06:32+00:00

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2024) 10(1):156–174 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2024/10/8

Art Encircles Life: Journeying With, In, and Through the Expressive Arts

Abstract

This article presents the work of two expressive arts therapists who traveled and taught around the world between February and April 2024. Our journey actually started on October 7, 2023, when we were supposed to start teaching in Israel, and instead found ourselves waking up into the barbaric outbreak of this new Israeli–Hamas war. Since that time and in the aftermath of a world forever marked by this tragedy and its aftermath, we have been searching for ways of being of service and engaging in and amplifying our understanding of the ways in which the arts contribute toward healing and the building of resilience in times of conflict, war, and disaster. During our journey, we teach in established creative and expressive arts therapy training programs in South Africa and India as well as teach in burgeoning and newly developing programs in Zambia and China. Wherever we go we are surrounded by the arts and arts practices and learn again about the lifesaving universality and importance of artistic expression.

Keywords: creative arts therapies, expressive arts therapy, expressive arts, creative process

摘要

本文介绍了两位表达性艺术治疗师在 2024 年 2 月至 4 月期间游历到世界各地的教学工作。我们的旅程实际上始于 2023 年 10 月 7 日。当时我们本应在以色列开始教学，但一觉醒来，却发现以色列和哈马斯爆发了新一轮的野蛮战争。从那时起，世界被这场悲剧及其后果永远烙上印记。我们一直寻找侍奉的方式，并研究如何运用艺术促进冲突、战争和灾难时期的愈合和复原力的建设。在这次旅程中，我们不仅在南非和印度这些已经建立了创造性和表达性艺术治疗领域的国家，也在赞比亚和中国这样的新兴蓬勃发展的国家中的培训项目中进行了教学。无论走到哪里，我们都被艺术和艺术实践所包围，并再次了解到艺术表达的普遍性、重要性及拯救生命的作用。

关键词： 创造性艺术治疗, 表达性艺术治疗, 表达性艺术, 创造性过程