Altered Books in Art Therapy with Adolescents

Chilton, Gioia

doi:10.1080/07421656.2007.10129588

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“…Despite a steady contribution of reports and qualitative studies (e.g. Chilton & Alexandria, 2007;Mazloomian & Moon, 2007;Newell-Walker, 2002), the wide range of settings and methods have made evaluation of their appropriateness and efficacy challenging. While much of the literature records successful interventions, there is an absence of both an underlying theoretical foundation and the rigorous demands of empirical tests seen within conventional 168 B.…”

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Review of arts-based therapies for Canadian youth with lived experience of mental illness

Boekhoven

Bowker

Davidson

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Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies

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Canadian youth can experience a range of mental health problems and mental illness, many of which perpetuate into adulthood. In contrast with preventative and medical care for physical problems, youth who experience difficulties with mental health or illness meet restricted access to evaluation, diagnostic and treatment services. Obstacles vary from low funding levels for services to the fear of being stigmatised by society. Conventional therapies could be complemented by the use of arts-based therapies, which are reported to offer a tangible alternative and could relieve delays in treatment. However, research regarding the treatment options, monitoring and assessment of outcomes is based largely on narrative evidence or idiographic studies, thus constraining the dissemination of supporting evidence and limiting the range of treatments for use by practitioners. While arts-based therapies receive support from many areas, including people with lived experience of mental health problems and illness, it is argued that the development of a theoretical foundation and extensive empirical research are required to develop the potential that arts-based therapies have to offer.

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Section: Arts-based Therapies and Researchmentioning

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Review of arts-based therapies for Canadian youth with lived experience of mental illness

Boekhoven

Bowker

Davidson

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Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies

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“…The choice of material could also be interpreted as a therapist's influence over the metaphors found in the final product. Chilton (2007) describes using altered books with clients. A book is considered by many to be a product in-and-of itself, thus the idea of altering books necessarily involves associations with books in general.…”

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“…CMT supports the idea that this physical material would potentially lead to insights about more complex and intangible concepts. Chilton (2007) mentions that one of the benefits of using altered books is as a container for emotional material. This corresponds to the general system of ontological metaphors, which include giving containment and shape to concepts that have no physical form.…”

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Strengthening the Foundations: An Introduction to the Role of Conceptual Metaphor Theory in Art Therapy

Thomley¹,

Safron²

2021

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This paper offers an introduction to conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), rooted in the cognitive linguistics field of study, and its application to art therapy theory and practice. Utilizing comics as a form of further elaboration and explanation, this manuscript is divided into five main sections: 1) an overview of current theories of conceptual metaphor, 2) a review of metaphor in art therapy, 3) an introduction to metaphor in comics, 4) a discussion of how CMT applies to art therapy practice, and 5) an encapsulation of these ideas in comic form. CMT proposes that metaphor is one of the main ways that humans are able to have abstract thought, and argues that metaphors often 1) work from the concrete to the abstract, 2) are based in bodily experience, and 3) build on each other over time, forming interconnected conceptual systems. Simultaneously, the field of art therapy utilizes metaphor in the understanding of both the process and product of art-making. The author puts forth that the work being done in cognitive linguistics can enhance and support the work being done in art therapy, and that CMT will further our understanding of art therapy pedagogy and practice.

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“…When a published book is altered, it becomes a unique, one-of-a-kind art object, in contrast to the ordinary, replaceable, uniform copy of a text. In the altering process, the artist confronts the book as a symbol of authority, reality, or convention, and changes it to make their own story (Chilton, 2007). The book is (re)contextualized as art, which speaks uniquely to the viewer in a dialogue presupposed by the multiple symbolic and metaphorical meanings the object carries through the physical features of the new art form.…”

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“…Any kind of book can be used, as well as many art processes to "alter" it, such as painting, drawing, collage, writing, assemblage, and embellishment with a variety of media (Harrison, 2002). In my art therapy practice, I have found altered books a helpful activity for some clients because the unwanted book, when re-purposed as a canvas, provides an inherent structure or framework for personal art making (Chilton, 2007).…”

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Altered Inquiry: Discovering Arts-Based Research through an Altered Book

Chilton

2013

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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I present altered book making and poetry as a process of imaginative inquiry into arts-based research. Through a personal narrative and a consideration of the literature on arts-based research, I reconstruct the artistic inquiry that traces my learning journey. Current issues in arts-based research are sketched through words and mixed media artwork, including issues of terminology, philosophy, ethics, and purpose in arts-based research practice. The beginnings of a transformation-through-the-arts paradigm, powered by an aesthetic epistemology, are referenced as part of a multimedia learning journey. As a strategy for pedagogical inquiry, the altered book construction and narrative writing served to express some of the transformative learning, beauty, energy, and complexities related to this topic.

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Altered Books in Art Therapy with Adolescents

Cited by 23 publications

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Review of arts-based therapies for Canadian youth with lived experience of mental illness

Review of arts-based therapies for Canadian youth with lived experience of mental illness

Strengthening the Foundations: An Introduction to the Role of Conceptual Metaphor Theory in Art Therapy

Altered Inquiry: Discovering Arts-Based Research through an Altered Book

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