Telehealth-based creative arts therapy: Transforming mental health and rehabilitation care for rural veterans

Online art therapy practice and client safety: a UK-wide survey in times of COVID-19

“…Essential adaptations to practice included reformulating therapy contracts, rethinking and redesigning often improvised therapy spaces, and providing additional instructions and guidance to clients. Research has previously indicated that working remotely from an adapted space within private home might not allow for the same assurance of privacy as is normally achieved when using a dedicated therapy room (Collie et al, 2017;Levy et al, 2018). The risks to confidentiality might be further exacerbated in an unprecedented situation like the recent pandemic when adaptations of private spaces happen suddenly and with limited prior preparation.…”

“…Despite growing interest in the area, less is known about how art therapists adopt digital technologies in their practice and, indeed, about the impacts of the remote form of delivery on therapy process, client outcomes and therapists' wellbeing (Alders et al, 2011;Asawa, 2009;Kapitan, 2007). The modest but pioneering body of research on online art therapy interventions makes contribution to the emerging debate on the risks and benefits of incorporating technology in art therapy sessions (Collie et al, 2006;Collie et al, 2017;Levy et al, 2018;Malchiodi, 2018;Spooner et al, 2019). In our own integrative review of this topic, we found that there were two opposing tendencies generally present among art therapy community: appreciation of the opportunities that digital technology brings often combined with resistance rooted in art therapists' concerns about ethics, confidentiality and other art therapy-specific challenges of online practice.…”

Virtual Music Therapy: Developing New Approaches to Service Delivery

“…Prior to COVID-19, telehealth delivery of music therapy has been focused on synchronous videoconferencing. While published research has been limited in comparison to traditional in-person models, telehealth-based music therapy approaches have been utilized to reduce barriers of access to services within military veteran populations ( Bronson et al, 2018 ; Levy et al, 2018 ; Lightstone et al, 2015 ; Spooner et al, 2019 ), parents of hospitalized infants in neonatal intensive care units ( Gooding & Trainor, 2018 ), and teens with Asperger’s Syndrome 1 who lack access to in-person services due to residing in remote or rural communities ( Baker & Krout, 2009 , 2014 ). While focused on the topic of approaches to distance music therapy educational and clinical supervision, MacDonald et al (2019) describe similarities and differences between in-person and distance supervision.…”

Online art therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic

“…Digital art therapy, which includes the application of computer-generated content and use of digital media as part of art therapy practice has been employed over the last three decades as progressively more and more art therapists have introduced computer technology into their clinical work (Canter, 1989;Gussak & Nyce, 1999;Hallas & Cleaves, 2017;Parker-Bell, 1999;Thong, 2007) through media such as, but not limited to: digital photography (Atkins, 2007), animation (Austin, 2009), collage making (Diggs et al, 2015) and art making apps (Choe, 2014). Research about facilitating art therapy online and delivering art therapy services through telehealth platforms was introduced two decades ago (Collie, 1998;Collie & Čubranić, 1999) and has seen ongoing use (Collie & Čubranić, 2002;Collie et al, 2017;Levy et al, 2017;.…”