This qualitative study examined the use of a novel music and imagery technique in individual quasi-supervisory sessions that explored a client/therapist relationship. This technique was employed with four members of a clinical team at a therapeutic day school. The participants’ experiences and follow-up interviews were used to examine perceived changes in the identified therapeutic relationship...

This paper contains a description of the preliminary stages of the development by the two authors of a computer system and basic procedures for computer-supported distance art therapy. We discuss this innovative form of telehealth within the context of psychosocial care for people with traumatic illnesses, particularly cancer. The paper includes a rationale for developing distance art therapy s...

INTRODUCTION The schizophrenics are frequently disinterested and resistant to standard care. CASE REPORT We presented clinical observations of group art therapy of two schizophrenic patients during integrative therapy in Day Hospital. We modified the original "Synallactic collective image technique" (Vassiliou G, Vassiliou V.). The group is open, heterogeneous, meets once a week and discusses...

Art therapy has been recognized as beneficial and effective since first described by Adrian Hill in 1942. Even before this time, art therapy was utilized for moral reinforcement and psychoanalysis. Art therapy aids patients with, but not limited to, chronic illness, physical challenges, and cancer in both pediatric and adult scenarios. Although effective in patient care, the practice of art the...

BACKGROUND In the developing world, the principal cause of death among HIV-infected patients is tuberculosis (TB). The initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) during TB therapy significantly improves survival, however it is not known which barriers prevent eligible TB patients from initiating life-saving ART. METHOD Setting. A South African township clinic with integrated tuberculosis and ...

We are American art therapists currently teaching in the first art therapy master’s program to be established in Australia. The aim of this report is to describe, from our perspective, the development and present status of art therapy in Australia, introducing the reader to information about its history, its national association and its current trends in training and practice. Also included is ...

BACKGROUND Antiretroviral therapy (ART) decreases mortality risk in HIV-infected tuberculosis patients, but the effect of the duration of anti-tuberculosis therapy and timing of anti-tuberculosis therapy initiation in relation to ART initiation on mortality, is unclear. METHODS We conducted a retrospective observational multi-center cohort study among HIV-infected persons concomitantly treate...

Art therapy has typically focused on issues associated with the human need for creative experience— art as therapy—and the power of art as a form of expression—art in therapy (Cane, 1951; Rubin, 2001). Marriage and family therapists argue that many of the difficulties that present in therapy are best treated systemically, i.e., from the perspective of or in the presence of the family as a whole...

Brief and online versions of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)—the favored treatment for severe anxiety disorders—have answered critiques that traditional CBT is too inaccessible and unaffordable. The integration of art into CBT protocols may address further critiques that the concepts of CBT can be too abstract and verbal by adding tangible components. Therefore, art e-therapy may offer a uni...