Expressive Therapies for Sexual Issues: A Social Work Perspective

246 Pages·2013·4.204 MB·English

by  M. Eve Hanan M.A., R-DMT (auth.), Sana Loue (eds.)

Expressive Therapies for Sexual Issues

Sana Loue
Editor
Expressive Therapies
for Sexual Issues
A Social Work Perspective
Editor
Sana Loue
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA
ISBN 978-1-4614-3980-6 ISBN 978-1-4614-3981-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-3981-3
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Contents
1 Embodied Therapy for Clients Expressing
Gender Variation: Using Creative Movement
to Explore and Express Body Image Concerns ................................... 1
M. Eve Hanan
2 Engendering Self Through Monologue
and Performance: Helping Your Clients Explore
Identity and Sexuality ............................................................................ 39
Sana Loue
3 The Use of Poetry Therapy for the Treatment
of Sexual Abuse Trauma ........................................................................ 55
Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson
4 Masks, Wounds, and Bridges: Expressive
Arts Therapy with Sexual Abusers. ...................................................... 85
Haley Fox
5 Exploring Gender Identity with Photography:
A Multilevel Treatment Approach ........................................................ 117
Sana Loue
6 Understanding Clients with Alternative Expressions
of Sexuality Using Music ....................................................................... 137
Meghan Hinman
7 Hearing Myself: Songs and Improvisation with Inner-City
Adolescents Dealing with Sexual Abuse History ................................. 157
Mechelle Chestnut
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8 Sandplay Therapy: A Way of Rediscovering Inner
Wisdom in the Body and Psyche ........................................................... 181
Judy D. Zappacosta
9 Sandplay as Alchemical Vessel: Healing Sexual
Trauma and Drug Addiction ................................................................. 201
Lydia S. Lennihan
Index ................................................................................................................ 235
About the Contributors
Mechelle Chestnut , MA, MT-BC, LCAT
Works with middle school-aged children in the Jersey City, NJ, public school sys-
tem and children and adults with developmental traumas in private practice in New
York City. She has worked in public and private hospitals, residential facilities, and
community-based programs in and around New York City. She is a nationally board
certi fi ed music therapist as well as a New York State licensed creative arts therapist.
She cofounded MAR Passages, a music therapy conference for students and new
professionals. Mechelle has presented locally, regionally, and nationally and has
published music therapy articles and reviews. She performs her own compositions
on vocals and viola in the New York metropolitan area. Mechelle studied music and
psychology at Barnard College before pursuing the master’s degree of music ther-
apy at New York University, where she wrote her thesis Family Music Therapy:
Family Work in Music Therapy from a Feminist Perspective. She also completed
the Advanced Vocal Psychotherapy Training at the Music Psychotherapy Center of
New York.
Haley Fox , PhD, REAT, ATR-BC, MT-BC
Is a registered expressive arts therapist (REAT), board-certi fi ed art therapist
(ATR-BC) and music therapist (MT-BC), and licensed professional clinical coun-
selor (LPCC) with a PhD in clinical psychology. She currently holds a position as
the Clinical Director for the Minnesota Sex Offender Program, an intensive, resi-
dential treatment program for adults who have been civilly committed as sexually
dangerous persons (SDP) or sexually psychopathic personalities (SPP). She has
spearheaded arts-based programming with this population in Minnesota; the effort
has been a springboard from earlier clinical work in community-based treatment
programs for sexual abusers and corrections-based programming. Dr. Fox currently
serves as one of three executive cochairs for the International Expressive Arts
Therapy Association (IEATA).
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Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson , MSW, ACSW, LCSW
Graduated from Boston University, earned a master’s degree in social work from
Louisiana State University, and did graduate work in theology at United Seminary
of the Twin Cities and doctoral work in education at Oklahoma State University. An
award-winning poet, psychotherapist, and leader in the fi eld of poetry therapy,
Gustavson is the author of I n-Versing Your Life (2006), an acclaimed series of six
poetry therapy guidebooks. Her latest publication is B ully! The Big Book for Bullies
and the Bullied (Sept. 2011, B looming Twig Books ). She has won awards in recent
years for her children’s book B allad of the Rag Man (2009) and her poetry collec-
tion Please Use This for Children and Not for War and Guns (2010). Her poetry and
articles have been printed in magazines and journals, such as T he Christian Century ,
Sojourners, The Journal of Poetry Therapy , and Families in Society . She has been
an invited lecturer internationally and domestically, giving readings, workshops,
and speaking on the use of poetry in therapy. She has taught graduate-level courses
at Louisiana State University and Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, as
well as lecturing at psychiatric grand rounds at the Oklahoma University School of
Medicine. Gustavson has a private psychotherapy practice in Tulsa, OK, and is on
the editorial board of N imrod International Literary Magazine.
M. Eve Hanan , MA, R-DMT
Is a dance/movement therapist with a master’s degree in creative arts therapy from
Drexel University. Her master’s thesis, E mbodying identity: A qualitative case study
of dance/movement therapy for people transitioning genders , is the fi rst study of
expressive movement and transgender embodiment. Through her training as a cre-
ative arts therapist, she has led group and individual therapy sessions that blend
somatic and verbal techniques for people throughout the age spectrum in a variety
of life circumstances and settings. Eve is also an attorney who practiced criminal
law in the trial and appellate courts of Boston and Washington, DC, for 8 years. She
currently facilitates restorative justice circle processes for youth and their communi-
ties in Baltimore, Maryland.
Meghan Hinman , MA, MT-BC, LCAT
Is a licensed creative arts therapist and board-certi fi ed music therapist with a private
psychotherapy practice in New York City, specializing in trauma, sexuality, and the
experience of terminal illness and grief. Meghan’s undergraduate music therapy
training from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh was grounded in existential phe-
nomenology; she studied music therapy as part of the graduate program for creative
arts therapists at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She also has advanced music
therapy training in vocal psychotherapy from the Music Psychotherapy Center of
New York and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Jungian psychology at
Paci fi ca Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. Meghan has lectured and presented
her work on the topics of end-of-life care, grieving children, sexual transference,
and spirituality.
About the Contributors ix
Lydia S. Lennihan , LPCC
Is a clinical counselor, writer, mythologist, artist, and continuing education provider
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she has had a private practice for over 12 years.
She has a graduate degree in mythological studies from Paci fi ca Graduate Institute,
as well as an MA degree in counseling psychology from Regis University. She
writes about fi lm and psychology, and her articles have appeared in several edited
collections and various psychological journals.
Sana Loue , JD, PhD, MPH, MSSA, MA
Is a professor at Case Western Reserve University. She holds a primary appoint-
ment in epidemiology and biostatistics in the School of Medicine, with secondary
appointments in the departments of bioethics, psychiatry, and global health and at
the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, the university’s school of social
work. Dr. Loue is a licensed social worker whose clinical focus is with emerging
adults and whose research focuses on gender, sexuality, HIV risk, mental illness,
and family violence. She is currently pursuing certifi c ation in sandplay therapy.
Dr. Loue is a member of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and the
Sandplay Therapists of America. Dr. Loue has presented her work nationally and
internationally and has contributed to many journals, including the J ournal of
Sandplay Therapy. She is the author or editor of more than 25 books, including
“My Nerves Are Bad” (“Mis Nervios Estan Malos”): Puerto Rican Women
Managing Mental Illness and HIV Risk (2011) and The Transformative Power of
Metaphor in Therapy (2008)
Judy D. Zappacosta , MFT, CST-T
Is a teaching member of Sandplay Therapists of America (STA) and the International
Society of Sandplay Therapy (ISST). She offers psychotherapy and sandplay for
individuals seeking to experience their own personal process, as well as consulta-
tion and training in Jungian studies. Ms. Zappacosta uses integrative dream work,
sandplay, and body awareness in both individual psychotherapy and interior rhythm
seminars. She hosts an international Sandplay in Switzerland training program with
Caring for the Soul Conferences and has been published both nationally and inter-
nationally. In addition, she has a strong background working with children, basing
her theoretical work in Jungian child studies and developmental psychology. Ms.
Zappacosta presently serves on the Marion Woodman Foundation Board of Trustees
and on the board for the International Society of Sandplay Therapy (ISST). She is a
past president of Sandplay Therapists of America