Arts in Psychotherapy

Article	Citations
Increased functional connectivity in military service members presenting a psychological closure and healing theme in art therapy masks	28
Arts psychotherapies for adolescents with mental health difficulties: A systematic review and logic model of mechanisms of action and outcomes	22
Psychological flexibility in art therapy: Practice-based research	21
Aesthetic distance: Conceptualization and practical use	16
The role of puppetry in mental health promotion: A scoping review of its efficacy and applications	16
Your life within me: Exploring a visual art journal group intervention for women who experienced stillbirth	15
Guidelines for art-based interventions in parental training	14
Music in the practice of dance/movement therapy	13
Art therapy for chemsex: A pilot study of representations of memories among this subset of self-identified gay men as expressed in gouache painting	13
Intersectional care ethics in art therapy organizations	13
Outcomes and experiences of an online Balance-Space music therapy intervention for cancer patients: A mixed methods study	13
“Some small worm is chewing my stomach”: Chronic pain in movement and narratives, a cross-sectional study	12
Music in the moment: The use of a musical intervention to impact state experiences	12
Breast cancer surgery as expressed in self figure drawings	11
“It just gives people hope”: A qualitative inquiry into the lived experience of the Harry Potter world in mental health recovery	11
Reliability and short version of the Dunphy Outcomes Framework (DOF): Integrating the art and science of dance movement therapy	11
Practicing in an expanded paradigm: Case examples and ethical anchors for creative arts therapists working in community-based social justice contexts	11
Expressive arts therapy: A profession in a “wild zone”	10
“Can I really be authentic?” A co-created critical autoethnography on whiteness in dance/movement therapy education	9
Aesthetic mutuality: A mechanism of change in the creative arts therapies as applied to dance/movement therapy	9
Do children’s family drawings reflect adaptation in early years of elementary school?	8
Relationship between the therapeutic alliance, clients' reactions to artistic work and outcomes of arts therapies with ultra-orthodox 4–15 year olds	8
The effects of sandplay therapy on the limbic system and prefrontal cortex in women with generalized anxiety disorder	8
Problem-solving expressions in preschool children’s "Person Picking an Apple from a Tree" drawings and verbal narratives	8
Editorial Board	8

The art of mentalizing: A mentalization-based art initiative with homeless people within a psychologically informed environment	8
Assessing dance movement therapy in Chinese undergraduates with depression and anxiety: An initial randomized controlled trial	7
Modified amusement park technique with a SUD population in a residential setting	7
Editorial Board	7
Beneficial and harmful music for substance use disorder clients: Implementation of the musical presentation technique	7
Companioning artmaking: Creating art alongside clients in group art therapy	7
A mixed methods exploration of a pilot photo-reflection intervention for enhancing coping and well-being during COVID-19	7
Child-focused outcome and process evaluation of a school-based art therapy intervention: A pilot randomised controlled study	6
Mentalization and drama therapy	6
The use of music therapy to address psychosocial needs of informal caregivers: An integrative review	6
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows”: Art therapists' perspectives on dealing with secrets in therapy	6
Clarifying the Creative level of the Expressive Therapies Continuum: A different dimension	6
Evaluating a continuing professional development course on cognitive functions for Music Therapists working in care homes	6
The influence of art material and instruction during art making on brain activity: A quantitative electroencephalogram study	6
Therapist perceived active ingredients of school-based dramatherapy for children and young people with emotional distress	6
Process evaluation of an art therapeutic treatment for children and adolescents with psychosocial problems	6
Psychological symptoms and the use of shadow miniatures in sandplay therapy	6
The experience of school-based dramatherapists: Understanding the barriers and facilitators of UK school-based dramatherapy to inform better implementation	6
“A springboard back to life”: The voices of people with mental health conditions on the process and outcomes of a pre-academic arts program	5
Cooking therapy in the creative arts therapy theoretical context: Conceptual validation and practical guidelines	5
Effectiveness of art therapy for people with eating disorders: A mixed methods systematic review	5
Forcibly displaced adults' perspectives on change mechanisms after a resilience-building art therapy intervention	5
Proposing a justice approach to Ethics of Care in art psychotherapy	5
Playback Theatre: Group, stories, and stage as elements of change	5
Music therapy and anhedonia: A case study	5
A proposed Critical Theory of Music Vilification to explain “problem music”	5
Reducing the burden of care: Effect of art and dance therapy on Parkinson’s disease patients’ caregivers	5
Open studio therapeutic aspects as experienced by adolescents in a psychiatric day treatment unit: A qualitative analysis	5
A year later: The pain protocol study findings and memory reconsolidation factors	5
Editorial Board	5
Promoting kindergarten readiness using early intervention art therapy with Latinx farmworker children	5
Art therapy in mitigating pervasive loss and grief within correctional settings	5
A mixed-methods study on psychodrama treatment for PTSD and depression in inpatient substance use treatment: A comparison of outcomes pre-pandemic and during Covid-19	5
Group music therapy for Chinese doctoral student mothers in Korea: A qualitative case study	5
Shifting Ethics of Care in Hong Kong	5
Analysis of the body of literature based on a new drama therapy literature database	4
“Time for Tony the Turtle”: Experiences with the use of a hand puppet in a program for young children in domestic violence shelters	4
Regulatory effect of drawing on negative emotion: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	4
Art therapy for children following adverse childhood experiences: An intervention development study	4
South Korean art therapists’ roundtable discussion on racism and ethnic discrimination: An arts-based inquiry	4
Joint drawings as a tool for observing couple relationships: Development of the, Couples’ Closeness-Distance Scale (CCDS)	4
Effects of music therapy on the subjective well-being of women with fibromyalgia: A quasi-experimental study	4
Playback Theatre applications: A systematic review of literature	4
Body-speak: Poetic intervention for adult survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) – An autoethnographic approach	4
Emerging wisdom through a traditional bon dance in group dance/movement therapy: A single case study of dementia	4
The Spiritual Experience of Sufi Whirling Dervishes: Rising Above the Separation and Duality of This World	4
Joint music sessions, parents, and their lesbian and gay young adult children: Effectiveness on the ‘coming out’ process, relationships, and wellbeing	4
Committing to arts-based palliative and bereavement care: Evaluation of students’ experiences in an online course	4
Art-based emotion regulation in major depression: Framework for intervention	4
Family members’ and other experts’ perceptions of music therapy with children on the autism spectrum in New Zealand: Findings from multiple case studies	4

Art therapy as a treatment for adults with learning disabilities who are experiencing mental distress: A configurative systematic review with narrative synthesis	4
Editorial Board	4
Korean dance/movement therapists’ clinical experiences working with individuals with developmental disabilities: Phenomenological study	4
Editorial Board	4
Exploring Art Hives: Implications of virtual art studio communities on positive and negative affect	4
How art-as-therapy supports participants with a diagnosis of schizophrenia: A phenomenological lifeworld investigation	3
The effects of psychodrama on the emotional awareness and communication skills of psychiatric nurses: A randomized controlled trial	3
Music improvisation enhances neutral verbal and visual memory in musicians and non-musicians alike	3
Trends in dance/movement therapy research: A bibliometric analysis of publications in the scopus bibliographic and citation information database	3
Effectiveness of group art therapy for mothers of children with disabilities	3
Power to move through: A heuristic self-inquiry of dance movement processing within guided imagery and music	3
Identifying the mechanisms of poetry therapy and associated effects on participants: A synthesised review of empirical literature	3
Art therapists’ fear of COVID-19, subjective well-being, and mindfulness	3
Anti-oppressive pedagogy in dance/movement therapy education: Embodied experiences of black, indigenous, and students of color	3
“Attentive to their drawing”: A pilot study of the implications of a single session mindfulness-based art therapy intervention on early childhood assistants	3
Arts-based supervision training for creative arts therapists: Perceptions and implications	3
Effect of Music on a Mindfulness Experience: An Online Study	3
Creating an art therapy research strategic plan: A community participatory approach	3
What does the literature teach us about research, theory, and the practice of art therapy for individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities? A scoping review	3
The perceived benefits of Dance Movement Therapy for parents of a child on the autism spectrum: A pilot study	3
The expressive therapies continuum and mentalization-based art therapy for individuals diagnosed with a cluster B/C personality disorder: A successful marriage!	3
Effectiveness of group psychodrama on aggression and social anxiety of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A randomized clinical trial	3
Psychodrama oriented group therapy for forgiveness in university students	3
Explanatory sequential descriptive analysis of music therapists’ clinical practice for individuals with eating disorders	3
Integrating the embodiment-projection-role paradigm to develop and implement a two-hour-workshop for stress management among nurses	3
Future time perspectives of older adults as reflected through digital photocollage	3
Identity development of Arab drama therapists: The role of ethnic boundary work	3
Analysis of the type of imagery and imagery themes from Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) sessions with adults in chemical dependency treatment	3
Understanding how humour enables contact in music therapy relationships with persons living with dementia: A phenomenological arts-based reflexive study	3
Feasibility of the Musical Contour Regulation Facilitation (MCRF) intervention to promote emotion regulation for under-resourced preschoolers: Examining intervention intensity	3
Arts therapists’ perceptions of working in educational settings in youth psychiatric wards	2
A pilot study of arts therapy techniques to evoke emotional states in forensic patients	2
Dance movement therapy for Black womxn: A content analysis	2
“Migrated onto the Screen”: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the clinical practice of drama therapy	2
Editorial Board	2
Shifting to tele-creative arts therapies during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international study on helpful and challenging factors	2
Critical pedagogy in the undergraduate music therapy curriculum: A grounded theory study of music therapy educators	2
A study on creative arts therapists’ human rights sensitivity	2
An evaluation of a developmental individual differences relationship-based (DIR®)- creative arts therapies program for children with autism	2
Acknowledgement to Reviewers	2
Joint sand painting as a potential intervention technique in parent-child art psychotherapy: The subjective experiences of mothers and children in a non-therapeutic setting	2
Drama therapists’ attitudes and perspectives regarding dis/ability: A community survey	2
Music therapy group for women outpatients with major depressive disorder under treatment as usual in a psychiatric institution: non-randomized pilot trial	2
Qualifying public perceptions of art therapy: A mixed methods study of community discussion forums	2
The Parent–Child Movement Scale (PCMS): Observing emotional facets of mother–child relationships through joint dance	2
Investigating dramatherapists' experiences of adult clients' stigma in relation to their mental health difficulties	2
Beyond art expression: Understanding participants’ experience and outcomes of a vicarious trauma and response art workshop	2
Orthodox Jewish adults with learning disabilities: Inclusive versus special education classroom experiences	2
Grieving artists: Influences of loss and bereavement on visual art making	2
A dance movement therapy intervention for people with a personality disorder: A Delphi study	2
Changes in general self-efficacy and mindfulness are associated with short-term improvements in mood during art-making in a partial hospital program	2
Holding environment, mirroring, and transitional object: Their roles in a writing group for adults with major mental illness	2
How do you know what you want? Service user views on decision aids for the arts therapies	2
Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Revised Spontaneity Assessment Inventory (SAI-R-C)	2
Dreaming of an abolitionist drama therapy	2
Supporting families to engage in music making with preschool children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities at home: An interpretivist multi-case study	2
Visual Journaling using Art Therapy with Refugees	2
Commentary: Moving into an embodied aesthetic theory of care	2
Editorial Board	2
Exploring the adolescent-self through written and visual diaries	2
Decolonizing internal and external borders: Reflections on therapeutic engagements with asylum seekers	2
Community-based experiences during professional training: Successes and challenges	2
Editorial Board	2
Combining music and dance movement therapy for people with dementia living in the community: A mixed methods feasibility study	2
Commentary: Troubling care	2
The impact of group art therapy in post-acute cancer care: A longitudinal qualitative study	2
A descriptive review of the impostor experience to support the health of music therapy students and professionals	2
Therapeutic Factors and Mechanisms of Change in Music Therapy for People with Late-life Depression: A Scoping Review	1
Music therapy and silence – Silence in music therapy. A systematic review	1
Music therapists’ perspectives on nature-connecting methods and the integration of nature in music therapy: Results of a survey among German and Austrian music therapists	1
Growing a small world: College students’ perceptions of making and tending an expressive terrarium	1
Supporting children of terminally ill adults: An arts-based psychoeducational narrative approach	1
Art making and virtual reality: A comparison study of physiological and psychological outcomes	1
The torso’s secrets: Using the torso in art therapy for people with eating disorders	1
“I function when I’m painting” – Consumers, carers and staff experiences of an art and mental health recovery project in Fiji	1
Moving together with you: Bodily expression of attachment	1
Art therapy and eating disorders: A mixed methods feasibility study	1
Feasibility of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music in eating disorder treatment: Clients' perceived benefits and challenges	1
Observation of Art Therapy Relationships (OART): An observational tool for the research of therapist-client and client-artwork relationships in art therapy	1
No-man land art voices: A quasi-experimental pilot study on the effects of art therapy on psychotic patients of a Psychiatric Day Hospital in Greece	1

Loss, adaptation and growth: The experiences of creative arts therapists during the Covid-19 pandemic	1
An overview of historical and contemporary perspectives in art therapy in Spain: A bibliometric analysis of Spanish art therapy research	1
An occupational therapist’s heuristic self-inquiry using the El Duende One-Canvas Process Painting to explore one’s emerging art therapist identity	1
The drama therapy core processes: A Delphi study establishing a North American perspective	1
Six adolescents’ lived experiences of resource-oriented music therapy assessment in a community-based mental health day program	1
Art therapy with military families: The animal strengths and family environment directive	1
The creative arts therapies and the climate crisis: Toward a framework for intentional engagement	1
Gender-based violence comes on the scene: Creative Arts Therapies intervention in prison with men who committed or tried to commit feminicide	1
Art therapist’s interventions in terms of the potential space in an open studio for at-risk children: Vignette analyses	1
Deconstructing trauma narratives: A critical interpretive synthesis of research into music therapy and psychological trauma in adults	1
Effectiveness of Trauma-Focused Art Therapy (TFAT) for psychological trauma: A mixed method single case study	1
The impact of systemic language in music therapy and western healthcare systems: A Canadian perspective	1
Drama therapy and the treatment of eating disorders: Advancing towards clinical guidelines	1
Participation in group music therapy: A preliminary study of the experiences and perceptions of adolescents who stammer	1
Editorial Board	1
A structural analysis of variables related to therapeutic outcomes as perceived by music therapists and clients in guided imagery and music	1
Self-correction, digital art making and stress reduction	1
Art therapy utilizing smartphones as a therapeutic stimulus to promote self-expression	1
Indigenous and traditional arts in art therapy: Value, meaning, and clinical implications	1
A study exploring dance/movement therapy's affinity with the body training system by Lee-chen Lin in Taiwan: A focus on self-concept	1
Role reversal enhances an understanding of the other, but not of the self	1
Photovoice techniques and art therapy approaches with refugee and immigrant adolescents	1
Fostering a diverse mentoring dynamic in art therapy	1
Exploring a therapeutic songwriting program with three people experiencing homelessness and their communities through a cross case analysis	1
Move freely! – A theoretical overview of the mechanism of movement improvisation	1
The use of VR tilt brush in art and psychomotor therapy: An innovative perspective	1
Editorial Board	1
Social role development in playback theater groups in light of the Mackenzie and Livesley model	1
Editorial Board	1
Developing Music-based Emotion Regulation (MBER): A theoretical model for age-related depression prevention	1
Team value and visual voice: Healthcare providers’ perspectives on the contributions and impact of Art Therapy in pediatric hematology/oncology clinics	1
Art and emotion processing among arab breast cancer survivors: An exploratory study	1
Psychodrama as an intervention management instrument for internal/external adolescent problems: A systematic literature review	1
Physiological measurements and emotional experiences of drawing and clay forming	1
Ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief in formal caregivers of people with dementia: Effectiveness of a training intervention with psychodrama	1
Developing and maintaining a thriving music therapy department at a senior living community: An exploratory interpretivist case study	1
“After the Tempest”: Assessing audience response through Playback Theatre	1