Clinicians’ Perceptions of Parent-Child Arts Therapy with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Milman Center Experience

Bitan, Michal; Regev, Dafna

doi:10.3390/children9070980

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“…It provides a safe, distant and non-verbal medium for expressing a difficulty, observing it and discovering alternatives for a solution, thus enabling the clients to carry out internal integration and make changes in their own lives [ 68 ]. It is worth noting that criticism of arts therapies and the parents’ lack of understanding of the basis and essence of arts therapies is also true for the general population, such as parents of children with autism [ 69 ].…”

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Ultra-Orthodox Parents’ Perceptions of Arts Therapies for Their Children

Keidar

Snir²,

Regev³

et al. 2022

Children

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Studies have underscored the complexity of psychotherapy for Ultra-Orthodox Jews, and cross-cultural therapy in particular, which evokes fear of disruption of basic values. Parents’ sense of responsibility for their child’s religious education exacerbates these problems in child therapy. However, there is scant research on child therapy for the Ultra-Orthodox, especially in the field of arts therapies. The present study examined the perceptions of 17 Ultra-Orthodox parents whose children were receiving arts therapies (including art therapy, dance/movement therapy, music therapy, psychodrama and bibliotherapy). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the parents and analyzed based on the principles of Consensual Qualitative Research. The study covered five domains: (1) The parents’ experiences in therapy; (2) The parents’ perceptions of the child’s experiences in therapy; (3) Implications of environmental-social factors on the parents’ perceptions and experiences of therapy; (4) Effects of intercultural aspects on therapy; (5) Perceptions of the use of the arts in therapy. The findings show that the experiences of ultra-Orthodox parents in the arts therapies of their children is complex due to the influence of the socio-cultural context, which involves dealing with stigma and tensions in their relationship with the education system. This context also shapes their perceptions of therapy, which can be characterized as purpose-oriented. The findings also highlight the parents’ challenges in coping with the intercultural therapeutic relationship, and emphasizes the parents’ preference for a therapist from a similar religious/cultural background and for cultural supervision of therapy. However, the results also suggest that there are benefits inherent to intercultural therapy in general and arts therapies in particular, including a sense of security, openness and acceptance of the parents and children.

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Ultra-Orthodox Parents’ Perceptions of Arts Therapies for Their Children

Keidar

Snir²,

Regev³

et al. 2022

Children

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“…Previous studies on arts-based dyadic interventions for parents and their children with or without disabilities have also demonstrated an array of benefits, including promoting mothers' mental health, decreasing child's behavioural problems, nurturing secure attachment, expanding playfulness, and facilitating interconnection, communication, understanding, and synchrony within dyads. [35][36][37][38][39][40] All these effects benefit children with ID and their mothers in terms of developing a positive relationship and promoting mutual understanding and communication. In addition to applying a single art modality approach, this study will employ an expressive arts-based intervention (EXAT) that uses different art modalities, such as music, drama, movement and visual arts, to attain therapeutic goals.…”

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“…Arts can serve as an avenue for self-expression and communication, particularly for individuals who find verbal self-expression difficult,34 like children with ID. Previous studies on arts-based dyadic interventions for parents and their children with or without disabilities have also demonstrated an array of benefits, including promoting mothers’ mental health, decreasing child’s behavioural problems, nurturing secure attachment, expanding playfulness, and facilitating interconnection, communication, understanding, and synchrony within dyads 35–40. All these effects benefit children with ID and their mothers in terms of developing a positive relationship and promoting mutual understanding and communication.…”

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Protocol for a mixed-methods randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of a dyadic expressive arts-based intervention in improving the psychosocial well-being of children with intellectual disability in special schools and their mothers

Wan

Fong

et al. 2023

BMJ Open

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IntroductionMothers of children with intellectual disability (ID) are often distressed because of intensive workloads and difficulties in communicating with their children. Given the interdependence between the psychosocial well-being of such dyads, interventions that promote parent–child relationships and mutual communication would be beneficial. Arts provide alternative avenues for expression and offer an imaginative and playful environment for discovering new communication strategies. Given the lack of studies on arts-based dyadic interventions, this study aims to examine the effectiveness of dyadic expressive arts-based intervention (EXAT) in improving the psychosocial outcomes of children with ID and their mothers and the mother–child relationships.Methods and analysisThis study will adopt a mixed-methods randomised controlled trial design, wherein 154 dyads of children with ID and their mothers will be randomised into either the dyadic EXAT group or the treatment-as-usual waitlist control group. Quantitative data will be collected at four time points: baseline (T0), postintervention (T1), 3-month postintervention (T2) and 6-month postintervention (T3). Qualitative data will be collected from a subset of 30 mothers in the intervention group at T1and T3to document their experiences and perceived changes after the intervention. Mixed-effects models and path analysis will be adopted to analyse the quantitative data, whereas thematic analysis will be applied to the qualitative data. Both sets of data will be triangulated for an integrated view of the effectiveness and mechanism of the intervention.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval has been obtained from the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Hong Kong (Ref. no.: EA200329). Written consent forms will be obtained from all recruited participants (mothers, children with ID and teachers/social workers) before data collection. The study findings will be disseminated in international conferences and peer-reviewed academic journals.Trial registration numberNCT05214859.

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