Art Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

255 Pages·2021·27.337 MB·English

by  Juliet L. King (editor)

Art Terapy, Trauma, and
Neuroscience
Art Terapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience combines theory, research, and practice
with traumatized populations in a neuroscience framework. Te classic edition
includes a new preface from the author discussing advances in the feld.
Recognizing the importance of a neuroscience- and trauma-informed
approach to art therapy practice, research, and education, some of the most
renowned fgures in art therapy and trauma use translational and integrative
neuroscience to provide theoretical and applied techniques for use in clinical
practice. Graduate students, therapists, and educators will come away from this
book with a refned understanding of brain-based interventions in a dynamic
yet accessible format.
Juliet L. King is an associate professor of art therapy at Te George Washington
University and adjunct associate professor of neurology at the Indiana University
School of Medicine. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies in translational
health sciences.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Awais, Yasmine J., author. | Blausey, Daniel, author.
Title: Foundations of art therapy supervision : creating common ground for
supervisees and supervisors / Yasmine J. Awais, Daniel Blausey.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical
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May we all work together to build the bridges that help us
understand more about what we don’t already know.

Contents
Preface for the Classic Edition ix
Preface xii
Foreword by Robert M. Pascuzzi, MD xiv
Acknowledgments xvii
List of Contributors xviii
1 Introduction 1
JULIET L. KING MA, AT R-B C , LPC
2 Neuroscience Concepts in Clinical Practice 11
LU KA SZ M. KON OP KA AM, PHD, ECNS, B C IA-EEG
3 Te Expressive Terapies Continuum as a Framework in
the Treatment of Trauma 42
VIJA B. LU SE BRINK PHD, AT R , HLM AND LISA D. HINZ PH D, AT R
4 Te Image Comes First: Treating Preverbal Trauma
with Art Terapy 67
LINDA GANT T PHD, AT R-B C AND TALLY TRIPP MA, MSW,
LC SW, AT R-B C , CT T
5 Secure Resiliency: Art Terapy Relational Neuroscience
Trauma Treatment Principles and Guidelines 100
NO AH HAS S-C OHEN PSY-D, AT R-B C
6 Neuroscience and Art Terapy with Severely Traumatized
Children: Te Art is the Evidence 139
P. GUSSIE KLO R ER PHD, AT R-B C , LC PC, LC SW, HLM
viii Contents
7 Practical Applications of Neuroscience in Art Terapy:
A Holistic Approach to Treating Trauma in Children 157
CHRISTO P HER M. BELKOF ER PHD, LPC, AT R AND
EMILY NO L A N DAT, AT R-B C , LPC
8 A Body-Based Bilateral Art Protocol for Reprocessing
Trauma 173
TALLY TRIPP MA, MSW, LCSW, AT R-B C , CT T
9 Medical Art Terapy Applied to the Trauma Experienced
by those Diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease 195
DE B ORAH ELKIS-ABUHOF F PH D, LC AT, AT R-B C , B CPC AND
MO RGAN GAYD OS MA, LC AT, AT R-B C
10 Conclusion 211
JULIET L. KING MA, AT R-B C , LPC WITH KERRY KRUK MS,
LPC, CSAC, AT R-B C
Index 224
Preface for the Classic Edition
Psychological and physical trauma are pervasive, universal, and can signif-
cantly impact mental health and overall wellness. Te complex presentation of
trauma remains a challenge to those who provide clinical care, as trauma com-
promises multiple nervous system functions, is manifested physiologically, and
fractures the capacity to communicate verbally. Despite increasing explorations
in the treatment of trauma, not enough attention has been given to art therapy.
Research in art therapy is becoming more robust and great strides have been
made to understand best practices for trauma sequalae since the initial publica-
tion of this text in 2016. Over the last fve years the art therapy community has
made considerable advances in the diagnosis and management of physical and
psychological trauma and has produced meaningful advances in understand-
ing art therapy and the ever-expanding universe of neuroscience. Attention has
shifed to the intersection of neuroscience, arts, and related therapeutics. Col-
laborative interdisciplinary eforts expand scientifc inquiry and illuminate the
brain mechanisms involved in health and disease states. Tese data advance
the potentials to study the psychological mechanisms of change in art psycho-
therapy, bolster existing clinical interventions, and infuence the development
new treatment strategies.
Art therapy has shown to have a profound clinical efect on people who have
endured psychological trauma, and the literature supports the use of nonverbal
therapies as benefcial in treatment. Art therapy is a brain-based profession that
inherently activates cognitive, emotional, visual, sensory, motor, and perceptual
systems. Many art therapists hold some awareness that neuroscience informs
their practice, as neuroscience informs everything in one way or another! Tis
is a topic of critical importance in psychotherapy practice, and while the allied
health professions and psychological sciences are readily relying on neurosci-
ence to inform research and intervention strategies, art therapists are called to
be even more mindful in how to best understand and utilize the science without
compromising the integrity of the subjective creative process.
Te primary goal of this book is to provide an accessible framework for how
the disciplines of art therapy and neuroscience complement and support one