The Creative Arts Personal Growth Group (CAPG): Transforming Fear and Shame

A Multicultural, Social Justice, and Peace Intervention for Interpersonal Violence

“…Meetings were virtual to allow for lower socio-economic, disability challenged, or in other way marginalized persons to have access to the study (Chen et al, 2020). Survey questions and study procedures for RQ1 replicated Sosin et al (2021). Data included weekly qualitative surveys, treatment and research journal entries, artifacts and notes submitted by participants, and researcher field notes (See Sosin et al, 2021 for CAPG components and research details, including survey questions).…”

“…In response to this crisis, the WHO (2013) publicized a set of guidelines, one of which was developing multiculturally informed interventions that promote psychological peace. Secular interventions are emerging (Sosin et al, 2021), but integration literature promoting multiculturalism, social justice, and peace [MSP] is lacking. To encourage the development of MSP integration scholarship, McConnell, Bacote, et al (2021) disseminated a Trinitarian-Based framework for the Christian community.…”

“…The Creative and Expressive-Arts Personal Growth Group [CAPG]: Transforming Fear and Shame is a manualized group treatment for IV-D (Sosin et al, 2021). Participants with IV-D related anxiety disorders (Trexler, 2020), eating disorders (Noble, 2021), and trauma symptoms (Sosin et al, 2021) reported internal and interpersonal benefits from the treatment.…”

“…The Creative and Expressive-Arts Personal Growth Group [CAPG]: Transforming Fear and Shame is a manualized group treatment for IV-D (Sosin et al, 2021). Participants with IV-D related anxiety disorders (Trexler, 2020), eating disorders (Noble, 2021), and trauma symptoms (Sosin et al, 2021) reported internal and interpersonal benefits from the treatment. In this article, we introduce a version of CAPG adapted for Christians [CCAPG] and a pilot study exploring CCAPG's potential to promote peace in the clinical setting and peace education in the research environment.…”

School Counselors and Refugee Students: Application of the Refugee Well-Being Project Intervention to Address the Social Determinants of Health

“…Advocacy might also take the form of educating other school administrators, staff, and students on how to best support and work with refugee students, not limited to translation and interpretation services, and collaborating with community agencies to support refugee students and their communities (Rumsey et al, 2018; Snow et al, 2021). School counselors can employ group interventions (e.g., the Creative Arts Personal Growth Group; Sosin et al, 2022) to provide support to refugee students because groups help facilitate community building between the students and between students and school counselors/interns (Rumsey et al, 2018). Whether working with refugee students individually or in groups, recognizing and celebrate the unique experiences and identities each student embodies is vitally important; therefore, school counselors and interns should refrain from using a homogenizing single lens to understand and work with them (Killian et al, 2018).…”