1. Arts Therapies with Children and Adolescents.
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Regev, Dafna and Regev, Dafna
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Painting & paintings ,The arts ,Autism Spectrum Disorders ,COVID-19 ,EAT ,EF ,OAT ,OS-ID ,PICU ,PPAT ,adolescents ,affect ,anxiety ,art ,art materials ,art process ,art products ,art therapy ,arts therapies ,at-risk children ,autism spectrum disorders ,behavioral problems ,change processes ,child abuse ,children ,creative arts therapy ,dance movement therapy ,drama therapy ,dramatherapy ,education system ,emotional abuse ,experience of art making ,foster care ,identity development ,intellectual disability ,intercultural therapy ,joint painting procedure ,maternal distress ,mechanisms of change ,medical clowning ,mental health ,mother-adolescent relationship ,music ,music therapy ,n/a ,online psychotherapy ,open studio ,parent-child arts therapy ,parents' perceptions ,physical abuse ,physiotherapy ,political violence ,prevention ,process evaluation ,psychodrama ,psychosocial problems ,quality improvement ,questionnaires ,randomised controlled study (RCT) ,refugee children/adolescents ,rehabilitation ,remote therapeutic response ,remote therapy ,resilience ,review ,role theory ,school arts therapies ,schools ,self-figure drawing ,self-potency ,sense of belonging ,sexual abuse ,social anxiety ,supported autonomy ,the creative arts ,ultra-Orthodox Jews ,well-being ,youth - Abstract
Summary: Arts therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses artistic media, the creative process, and artwork as its primary forms of communication. The arts therapies cover six areas of specialization: visual arts, music, dance and movement, drama, psychodrama, and bibliotherapy. Several studies and reviews have demonstrated its effectiveness for adult populations (e.g., Regev and Cohen-Yatziv, 2018), as well as for children and adolescents (e.g., Cohen-Yatziv and Regev, 2019). Academic writing and research, which have evolved extensively in recent decades, have underscored the considerable significance of arts therapies especially for children and adolescents.This Special Issue, "Arts Therapies with Children and Adolescents", is dedicated to presenting research and clinical writing in the field of the Arts Therapies with Children and Adolescents in a variety of settings, including hospitals, the education system, mental health clinics, and others. I hope that this Special Issue will serve as a repository of knowledge for arts therapists and as a fertile terrain for further research in the field. It should also pave the way for more professionals working with children and adolescents to better understand the meaning and uniqueness of the therapeutic work in arts therapies and the dedicated ways in which arts therapists use assessment tools and arts-based interventions to better understand the world of children and adolescents.