Creative Arts in Counseling and Mental Health

Drawing on new paradigms and evidence-based discoveries in neuroscience, narrative psychology, and creativity theory, this text explores the beneficial role of expressive arts within a recovery perspective. A framework of practice principles for the visual arts, creative writing, music, drama, dance, and digital storytelling is addressed across a number of settings and populations, providing readers with an accessible overview of techniques taught in counseling programs in the U.S. and abroad.

Table of Contents:
Chapter I: Introduction - Robert King, Felicity Baker & Philip Neilsen A Theoretical Framework for Creative Arts in Recovery A Note on the Evidence Base for Creative Arts in Recovery What You Will Find in this Book About the Authors Chapter II: Lived experience: writing and recovery - Robert King, Jon Scott & Jane Boggs A Writing Workshop Clubhouse Writers Chapter III: Lived experience: visual art and music in recovery - Robert King, Patricia Strobel, Tom O’Brien & Ann Bermingham Patricia Strobel Tom O’Brien Ann Bermingham Chapter IV: Visual arts: principles and evidence base - Clare Edwards, Tom O′Brien & Robert King Abstract Background Study Aims Overview of Study Design Results Discussion Chapter V: Visual arts: multidisciplinary day program in practice for young people with severe mental health problems - Sandra Drabant & Robert King The Mater Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) Day Program Jack’s Story and Art Therapy Assessment Discussion Chapter VI: Visual arts: the place of the art exhibition in mental health recovery Introduction The Art Exhibition – What Are We Talking About? The Realisation of the Art Show The Social Nature of the Art Show – Being Part of a Collaborative Event The Relationship Between Exhibiting Art and Identity Development in Mental Health Context The Purpose of the Art Show for the Recovery Community Network Recommendations for Staging an Art Show in the Mental Health Recovery Context Chapter VII: Creative writing: literature review and evidence-based research - Philip Neilsen Introduction Creative Writing – Definition Theoretical Frameworks and Explanatory Models Commentary on Theoretical Frameworks Discussion Chapter VIII: Creative writing: a practice-based account of designing and facilitating life-writing workshops for a group with severe mental illness - Philip Neilsen & Robert King Introduction Materials and Methods, Participants and Setting Intervention Preparation For and Delivery of the Workshops Workshop Dynamics Data Collection Chapter IX: Music therapy and mental health recovery: what is the evidence? - Claire Stephensen & Felicity A Baker What is Music Therapy? Music Therapy Methods in Recovery Music Therapy Approaches in Research and Practice Current Evidence Chapter X: Music: the Interface of music therapy and psychotherapy with adolescents in a hospital-based, consultation-liaison mental health service: eclecticism in action - Katherine Aitchison Music Therapy in CYMHS Music Therapy and the Question of Orientation Evidence for the Efficacy of Music Therapy in Child and Youth Mental Health Eclecticism: An Integrated Approach Therapeutic Songwriting with Adolescents Fostering Understanding: A Psychodynamic Approach Case Study: Sarah Offering Acceptance: A Humanistic Approach Case Study: Kathy Facilitating Development: A Behavioural/Cognitive-Behavioural Approach Case Study: Jayden Chapter XI: A dance/movement therapy recovery model: engagement in stages of change - Anne Margrethe Melsom & Jill Comins Introduction: Dance/Movement Therapy in Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care A Proposed Dance/Movement Therapy RECOVERY Model Use of the Therapist-Self within the Dance/Movement Therapy RECOVERY Model Emergence of the Dance/Movement Therapy RECOVERY Model Stages of Change and Dance/Movement Therapy: An Integrative Conceptualisation Integrative Conclusions: Stages of Change and the DMT RECOVERY Model Applications of the Dance/Movement Therapy RECOVERY Model Chapter XII: The evidence base for dance/movement therapy in mental health: moving the body of knowledge - Sherry W. Goodill Introduction Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses Levels of Evidence and Example Studies Summary of Evidence for DMT Recommendations Chapter XIII: Applied theatre for mental health: literature review and evidence-based research - Andrea Baldwin Definitions Forms of Drama Practice in Relation to Mental Health Theatrical Theatre Drama as Social Experience Drama as Therapy: Psychodrama and Drama Therapy Models of Drama Therapy The Difference Between Drama as Therapy and Drama as Social Experience How Does Participation in Drama Support Recovery? Evidence of Effectiveness: How Participation in Drama Supports Recovery Chapter XIV: Respect yourself drama education program in practice - Andrea Baldwin Introduction Program Outline Clinical Rationale Implementation Example Session Longer Term Effects Digital storytelling for the self-advocacy of marginalised identities: theory and practice Introduction Overview of Case Studies Narrative Practice and Empowerment Storytelling as Praxis Notice One My Secret Story Greg’s Sermon

About the Author :
Philip Neilsen, MA, PhD, ASA is both a senior academic and an internationally acclaimed author and poet. He founded the creative writing program at the Queensland University of Technology where he is currently adjunct professor and also teaches poetics at the University of Queensland.  He has published five books of poetry, including Without an Alibi (Salt: Cambridge, 2008), five novels/novellas, and has been widely anthologised in Australia and the USA. His creative work has been translated, including into German, Chinese and Korean.  As an academic he has contributed scholarly works on literature and on the use of creative writing as mental health therapy. Philip has been president of PEN International for Australia North, has served on the Australia Council for the Arts and is co-editor (with Professor David Morley, University of Warwick, UK) of The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing. Robert King is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor in the School of Psychology and Counselling at Queensland University of Technology.  He is a fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and a member of the College of Clinical Psychology. Professor King holds a MA (Clinical Psychology) from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from Monash University.  Robert′s primary areas of research focus include: the impact and effectiveness of online delivery of counselling and psychotherapy services; the role of creative therapies in mental health; development and evaluation of models of mental health service delivery; and the mental health workforce: training, structure, organization and management.  Robert publishes extensively in Australian and International peer reviewed journals.  He is Associate Editor for the US based journal Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research and was for many years the Peer Review Editor for Psychotherapy in Australia.  Felicity Baker is a Music Therapist, Associate Professor in Music Therapy and currently an Australia Research Council Future Fellow (2010-2015) based at The University of Melbourne. she is currently Associate Editor the Journal of Music Therapy and immediate past President of The Australian Music Therapy Association Inc, the peak body of the discipline in Australia.  Felicity has established herself as an international leader in music therapy and is regularly invited to teach in institutions through Asia, UK/Northern Europe and the USA. Felicity is recognised for her research expertise in therapeutic songwriting and in neurorehabilitation. Her text Song Writing Methods, Techniques and Clinical Applications for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators and Students is a best seller (Jessica Kingsley Publishers) which has sold over 4,000 copies and has been translated into Korean and Italian. Felicity is a member of a Research Consortium involving music therapy researchers from 9 international universities from USA, UK, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Australia with international recognition of being at the forefront of music therapy research. Her innovative research has attracted significant media attention. She has achieved a strong publication record (4 books, 17 book chapters, and 70+ peer reviewed journal articles) and developed a recognized capacity for cross-disciplinary research.