Images of Art Therapy (Psychology Revivals)

Dalley, Tessa; Case, Caroline; Schaverien, Joy; Weir, Felicity; Halliday, Diana; Hall, Patsy Nowell; Waller, Diane

doi:10.4324/9780203796467

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“…They can offer encouragement for persistence with autonomous self-help activities; be active in helping their clients make best use of their apps; and collaborate to select self-help options in support of a program of face-to-face therapy. There is a parallel with art therapy where interaction between client, therapist, and image is employed to facilitate personal understanding and options for change [52]. Practitioners will want to consider the benefits and the challenges of their clients and users having attachments to, and communications between, both person and digital device.…”

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Interaction and Engagement with an Anxiety Management App: Analysis Using Large-Scale Behavioral Data

Matthews¹,

Topham²,

Caleb-Solly³

2018

JMIR Ment Health

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BackgroundSAM (Self-help for Anxiety Management) is a mobile phone app that provides self-help for anxiety management. Launched in 2013, the app has achieved over one million downloads on the iOS and Android platform app stores. Key features of the app are anxiety monitoring, self-help techniques, and social support via a mobile forum (“the Social Cloud”). This paper presents unique insights into eMental health app usage patterns and explores user behaviors and usage of self-help techniques.ObjectiveThe objective of our study was to investigate behavioral engagement and to establish discernible usage patterns of the app linked to the features of anxiety monitoring, ratings of self-help techniques, and social participation.MethodsWe use data mining techniques on aggregate data obtained from 105,380 registered users of the app’s cloud services.ResultsEngagement generally conformed to common mobile participation patterns with an inverted pyramid or “funnel” of engagement of increasing intensity. We further identified 4 distinct groups of behavioral engagement differentiated by levels of activity in anxiety monitoring and social feature usage. Anxiety levels among all monitoring users were markedly reduced in the first few days of usage with some bounce back effect thereafter. A small group of users demonstrated long-term anxiety reduction (using a robust measure), typically monitored for 12-110 days, with 10-30 discrete updates and showed low levels of social participation.ConclusionsThe data supported our expectation of different usage patterns, given flexible user journeys, and varying commitment in an unstructured mobile phone usage setting. We nevertheless show an aggregate trend of reduction in self-reported anxiety across all minimally-engaged users, while noting that due to the anonymized dataset, we did not have information on users also enrolled in therapy or other intervention while using the app. We find several commonalities between these app-based behavioral patterns and traditional therapy engagement.

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Interaction and Engagement with an Anxiety Management App: Analysis Using Large-Scale Behavioral Data

Matthews¹,

Topham²,

Caleb-Solly³

2018

JMIR Ment Health

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“…Erikson (1950) mentions faith as a trait that develops in the first stage of life, significant for the differentiation process. According to Weir (1995) and Bowlby (2005), difficulties in developing self-confidence during the process of differentiation could create a false sense of omnipotence and the need to preserve control (Dalley et al, 2013). In describing the narcissistic disorder, Cohen (2016) refers to desire, abandonment anxiety, and a need for control and security.…”

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Molding the Fear: Representations of Fatherhood in Clay by Violent Men

Lev,

Klein,

Barzilay

et al. 2023

Creative Arts Educ Ther

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This article presents an artistic inquiry among three students during an art-based research course in the art therapy master’s program at Ono Academy, Israel. Their collaboration focused on composing inquiry modes that could explore paternal representations of violent men that arise in artmaking with clay. Three fathers who took part in an abuse-prevention art therapy group, their group facilitator as a witness, and the three student-researchers participated in the project. The paper focuses on the research method that comprised artmaking with clay, a questionnaire, observations, and discussions. Two main themes arose within the study: coexisting contrasts and false perfection as well as a gained sense of success and assurance that could project onto their perceptions of parenting. The project highlights the significance of artmaking with clay as a research tool and as a potential prophylactic treatment for preventing domestic violence.

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“…One of the key theoretical assumptions in art therapy is that artwork, which expresses the inner world of the client (Hilbuch et al, 2016), may also reflect or deepen the relationship between the art therapist and the client (Robbins, 2001). Another crucial theoretical assumption is that the art therapist serves as an active partner in the process of art-making by providing the materials, and enabling a safe space in which clients can make associations, revisit emotions from the past, explore, and discover new things about themselves through their artistic experiences (Dalley et al, 1987;Wood, 1990;Hilbuch et al, 2016;Snir et al, 2017). These two theoretical assumptions suggest a connection between the client's relationship with the art therapist and his or her relationship with the artwork.…”

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Relationships Between the Therapeutic Alliance and Reactions to Artistic Experience With Art Materials in an Art Therapy Simulation

et al. 2021

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In art therapy, art-making plays an important role in the therapeutic relationship. To better understand the triangular relationship between the art therapist, the client and the artwork, this study investigated the association between the therapeutic alliance and reactions to artistic experiences with art materials in an art therapy simulation. The simulation consisted of a series of 6–8 sessions in which art therapy students were divided into teams composed of a permanent observer (art therapist) and creator (client). The client's role was to self-explore through art- making, and the art therapist's role was to accompany the client. Thirty-four students, all women, who played the art therapist role, and 37 students (one male) who played the client participated in the study. Of these participants, there were 24 pairs where both participants filled out all the questionnaires. A short version of the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) was completed by the clients and the art therapists on the second session (T1) and on the penultimate session (T2). The clients also completed the Art-Based Intervention Questionnaire (ABI) at T2. Significant positive correlations were found between indices of the WAI for the art therapist and the client and the clients' reactions to the artistic experience with art materials on the ABI. The evaluation of the emotional bond between the art therapist and the client at the start of the simulation significantly predicted the client's reactions to the artistic experience with art materials at the end of the simulation and explained 45.4% of the variance for this variable. These findings highlight factors related to the development and influence of the therapeutic alliance, as well as the role of the artistic experience in art therapy and lay the groundwork for further research.

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Images of Art Therapy (Psychology Revivals)

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Interaction and Engagement with an Anxiety Management App: Analysis Using Large-Scale Behavioral Data

Interaction and Engagement with an Anxiety Management App: Analysis Using Large-Scale Behavioral Data

Molding the Fear: Representations of Fatherhood in Clay by Violent Men

Relationships Between the Therapeutic Alliance and Reactions to Artistic Experience With Art Materials in an Art Therapy Simulation

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