I. HPC 6370 Intermodal Expressive Arts Therapy (3) Spring 2014
Dr. Sally Atkins
336 F COE, (W) 262-6047; (H) 264-1188
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Office hours: TBA, will be announced and posted. You can sign up on my door for available appointment times.
II. Course Description
An examination of theories, techniques, and functions of psychotherapeutic approaches using intermodal expressive arts, emphasizing cross-cultural contexts of creative expression and human development.
III. Content Areas
1. Cultural and historical contexts of the arts and healing.
2. Research in arts-based therapies
3. Expressive and creative arts therapies.
4. Applications of expressive arts in clinical settings.
5. The arts and society: Art making and community
6. Arts-based research: Art making as epistemology.
Note: All topics in this course are taught from a multicultural perspective, which emphasizes the differing experiences, cultures, histories, and perspectives of people from a variety of ethnic, gender, racial, and social class backgrounds.
IV. Knowledge and Skill Outcomes
Students will:
1. Explore the rationale for and applications of expressive arts therapy.
2. Compare expressive arts therapy with other arts-based approaches and with other theories of psychotherapy.
3. Experience an intermodal, integrative approach to expressive arts within a learning community.
4. Further knowledge of research and theory in expressive arts.
5. Demonstrate understanding and use of a variety of appropriate therapeutic responses to creative work.
6. Pursue personal, professional and artistic development.
7. Develop, articulate and demonstrate a personal integrative approach to expressive arts therapy.
V. Class Format/Methods of Teaching
This class will have a balance of content and experiential components, including lecture, discussion, presentations, small group work, and art making activities. Imaginative thinking and creativity are encouraged. Personal reflection and sharing are important components of the course.
VI. Course Requirements
1. Class attendance and participation. (including leading of openings & closings)
2. Readings: Assigned readings, research and original sources book reports
3. Prepare and present in class a review of one empirical study on expressive arts therapy. Share copies with class.
4. Participation in expressive arts service project (to be announced)
5. Midterm Exam
6. Read two books of your choice from list of original sources enclosed. Submit a written book report (2 pages) on each.
7. Theory of Practice Outline and Presentation:
Part A: 30-minute lecture/demonstration of personal work in expressive arts,
including the following:
Demonstration of how I work.
Principles and attitudes that guide my practice.
Theoretical or philosophical constructs that underlie my work
(including citattions)
Part B: Detailed written outline of above, including a minimum of 10 APA
style references
8. Prepare and share artist trading cards as a part of building community.
9. Final exam experiential
VII. Grading: Grading in this course will be done on a contract basis as follows:
A-Contract
1. Attend and participate in all classes-no absences or tardies
2. Complete all weekly assignments, including research and book reports
3. Participate in one service project, summarized in a one page reflection paper due the class following the session.
4. Attain an A on midterm exam
5. Submit two written book reports. (See # 6 above.)
6. Theory of Practice Presentation and Paper: Parts A and B above, completed at A level of quality.
B-Contract
1. Attend and participate in classes with no more than one absence or two tardies.
2. Attain a B or better on midterm exam
3. Complete all weekly assignments.
4. Submit one written book report.
5. Paper/Presentation: Parts A and B above, completed at B level of quality
All work is expected to be carefully and thoughtfully prepared. The professor reserves the right to raise or lower the contract grade up to one letter grade based on quality of student work and on class attendance and participation.
VIII. Attendance Requirements
Excused absences for illness or religious observance require written notification and additional make up work.
“Graduate students are expected to be responsible for regular class attendance. A student whose attendance in classes is unsatisfactory to the instructor, the advisor, or the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, may be excluded from a course, a final examination, or a graduate program.” A.S.U. Graduate Bulletin, pp. 51-52.
IX. Required Readings:
Degges-White, S. & Davis, N. L. (2011). Integrating the expressive arts into counseling practice: Theory-based interventions. New York: Springer.
Knill, P.J., Levine, E.G., & Levine, S.K., (2005). Principles and practice of expressive arts therapy. Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley.
Two books of choice from original sources. (See Below)
X. References: See extensive bibliography in“Review of Concepts” references
Original Source Readings for HPC 6370
The following list contains authors of original works within different theoretical approaches to counseling and psychotherapy. You are to choose two works by any of the following authors to read and report on. These are only suggestions. If you have ideas for authors outside of this list, please bring in to discuss. For each book, please write no more than 2 pages summarizing basic theoretical ideas as well as how these ideas can inform the integrative practice of Expressive Arts Therapy.
Humanistic/ Existential / Cognitive Behavioral / Jungian/ Archetypal/ Dynamic / Family Systems / EXA-Carl Rogers
-Victor Frankl
-Rollo May
-Fritz Perls
-Irvin Yalom
-Abraham Maslow / -Joseph Wolpe
-Aaron Beck
-Albert Ellis
-Arnold Lazarus / -Carl Jung
-James Hillman
-Alfred Adler
-Harry Stack Sullivan / -Salvador Minuchin
-Jay Haley
-Virginia Satir
-Carl Whitaker
-Murray
Bowen / -Paolo Knill
-Shaun McNiff
-Natalie Rogers
-Stephen K. Levine
Academic Policies Statements
As a community of learners at Appalachian State University, we must create an atmosphere of honesty, fairness, and responsibility, without which we cannot earn the trust and respect of each other. Furthermore, we recognize that academic dishonesty detracts from the value of an Appalachian degree. Therefore, we shall not tolerate lying, cheating, or stealing in any form and will oppose any instance of academic dishonesty. This course will follow the provisions of the Academic Integrity Code, which can be found on the Office of Student Conduct Web Site: www.studentconduct.appstate.edu.
Appalachian State University is committed to making reasonable accommodations for individuals with documented qualifying disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Those seeking accommodations based on a substantially limiting disability must contact and register with The Office of Disability Services (ODS) at http://www.ods.appstate.edu/ or 828-262-3056. Once registration is complete, individuals will meet with ODS staff to discuss eligibility and appropriate accommodations.
Absences for religious observances are considered excused absences. Students seeking an excused absence for religious observances must inform the professor prior to the absence and make arrangements to make up all work missed.
Inclement Weather:
In case of hazardous weather, the instructor will notify students by email that class will be postponed or that independent work will be assigned. Campus email addresses will be used for all class correspondence.
Expressive Arts Therapy: Review of Concepts
I. General Concepts: Creativity in Counseling and Psychotherapy
creative process
creativity as a process for therapeutic transformation (may, Jung, Zinker, et.al.)
archetypes, myth, and symbols, active imagination (Jung)
art making as making special, art as biological (Dissanayake)
re-enchantment of art (Gablik)
art as a way of knowing (Allen)
creativity in counseling (Gladding)
centering; therapy as “holding” (Richards)
improvisation (Nachmanovitch)
sensory basis of art making
imagination
artistic product
therapeutic relationship: presence, listening, responding, bearing witness
creating a container for artistic work; setting a frame
attention, inward and outward
intention
aesthetics and beauty
integration, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity
the arts and social change; Tikkum olam
References
Allen, P.B. (1995). Art is a way of knowing. Boston: Shambhala.
Degges-White, S. & Davis, N.L (2011). Integrating the expressive arts into counseling
practice: Theory-based interventions. New York: Springer.
Dissanayake, E. (1988). What is art for? Seattle: University of Washington.
Gablik, S. (1991). The reenchantment of art. London: Thames and Hudson.
Gladding, S.T. (2005). (3rd ed.) Counseling as an art: The creative arts in counseling.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Hillman, J. (1989) A Blue Fire. New York: HarperCollins
Jung, C. Man and his symbols. New York: Viking.
Levine, E.G. & Levine, S.K. (Eds.). (2011).Art in action: Expressive arts therapy and
social change.London:Jessica Kingsley.
Levine, S.K. (Ed.). (2002). Crossing boundaries. Toronto: EGS Press.
Malchiodi, C.A. (Ed.). (2005). Expressive therapies. New York: Guilford.
May, R. (1985). My quest for beauty. San Francisco: Saybrook.
Nachmanovitch, S. (1991). Free play: The power of improvisation in life and the arts.
Richards, M.C. (1964). Centering in pottery, poetry, and the person. Hanover, NH:
University Press of New England.
Richards, M.C. (1996). Opening our moral eye. Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne.
Zinker, J.C. (1978). The creative process in Gestalt therapy. New York: Vintage.
Concepts Emphasized by Particular Approaches. Please note: None of these categories is mutually exclusive. Most approaches make use of concepts of others.
Appalachian State University
interdisciplinarity
integrative theory
nature as the model of creative process
ecotherapy
strength-based, assets based approach
daily practice
unity of art and craft
expressive arts in community
cycles of creative process
opening and closing space
crafting of time and space
bodymind
altered state of consciousness
personal authority of the client
personal integration of theory and philosophy
person of the therapist
ritual
References
Abram, D. (1996). The spell of the sensuous. New York: Vintage.
Atkins, S., Adams, M., McKinney, C., McKinney, H., Rose, E., Wentworth, J., &
Woodworth, J. (2003). Expressive arts therapy: Creative process in art and life.
Boone, NC: Parkway.
Atkins, S. & Williams, L.D. (Eds.). (2007). Expressive arts therapy sourcebook. Boone, NC: Parkway.
Berry, T. & Tucker, M.E. (2009). The sacred universe. New York: Columbia University
Press.
Degges-White, S. & Davis, N.L. (2011). Integrating the expressive arts into counseling practice: Theory-based interventions. New York: Springer.
Garrett, J.T. & Garrett, M. (2002). The Cherokee full circle. Rochester, VT: Bear.
Jung, C. G. (2002). The earth has a soul: The nature writings of C.G. Jung. Berkeley,
CA: North Atlantic Books.
Laszlo, E. & Combs, A. (2011). Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the earth. Rochester, VT:
Inner Traditions
Louv, R. (2005). Last child in the woods: Saving our children from nature-deficit
disorder. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin.
Louv, R. (2011). The nature principle. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin.
Mellick, J. (2001). The art of dreaming. Berkeley, CA: Conari.
Richards, M.C. (1964). Centering in pottery, poetry, and the person. Middletown, CN:
III. California Institute of Integral Studies
Multimodal expressive arts
East-West perspectives and philosophies
Integration of psychological theories and arts therapies
Bridging the inner and outer worlds
Consciousness studies
Power of the arts
Healing power of creativity
Creativity and spirituality
Personal arts practice
V. The European Graduate School (Paolo Knill et. al.)
expressive arts therapist as a specialist in intermodality
change agent
intermodal transfer
poiesis
phenomenology
postmodernism
polyaesthetics
architecture of a session
decentering
low skill/ high sensitivity
responding to art: descriptive, aesthetic and artistic feedback
art analog
aesthetic analysis
aesthetic responsibility
rites of restoration
range of play
harvesting
alternative worlding
resource oriented
crystallization
arts disciplines vs. modalities of imagination
image abuse
"the third"
liminal space
appreciative curiosity
therapist as art coach: take one, take two, final take
References
Knill, P.J., Levine, E.G., & Levine, S.K., (2005).Principles and practice of expressive arts therapy.Philadelphia:Jessica Kingsley.
Knill, P.J., Barba, H.N. & Fuchs, M.N. (1995).Minstrels of soul:Intermodal expressive therapy. Toronto:Palmerston.
Levine, E. (1995). Tending the fire:Studies in art, therapy, and creativity. Toronto: Palmerston.
Levine, E.G. & Levine, S.K. (Eds.). (2011).Art in action: Expressive arts therapy and
social change.London:Jessica Kingsley.
Levine, S.K. (1997). Poiesis: The language of psychology and the speech of the soul.
London: Jessica Kingsley
Levine, S.K. (Ed.) (2002). Crossing boundaries: Explorations in Therapy and the Arts.
Toronto: EGS Press..
Journal: Poiesis:A Journal of the Arts and Communication
.
VI. Natalie Rogers
creativity as an inherent impulse
creative connection among the arts
safe, supportive space
self-expression
person-centered therapy
therapeutic relationship: empathy, congruence, unconditional positive regard
process oriented
language as a clue for art form
creativity in groups
References
Rogers, N. (1993).The creative connection: Expressive arts as healing.Palo Alto, CA: Science & Behavior.
Rogers, N. (2011). The creative connection for groups: Person centered expressive arts
for healing and social change. Palo Alto, CA: Science & Behavior.
VII. Shaun McNiff – Lesley University
art as soul medicine
trust the process
shamanic traditions
dialogue with images
activation of creative energy
therapy of the imagination
art-based research
art in the workplace
References
McNiff, S. (1992).Art as medicine:Creating a therapy of the imagination.Boston: Shambhala.
McNiff, S. (1998).Art-based research.Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley.
McNiff, S. (1998).Trust the process:An artist's guide to letting go.Boston:
Shambhala.
McNiff, S. (2003).Creating with others: The practice of imagination in art, life, and the workplace. Boston:Shambhala.
McNiff, S. (2004).Art heals: How creativity cures the soul.Boston:Shambhala.
McNiff, S. (2009). Integrating the arts in therapy: History, theory and practice. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
VIII.Tamalpa Institute
Movement-based expressive arts therapy
Movement as a metaphor
Body as a metaphor
Life-art bridge
Life/art process
Psychokinetic visualization
Psychokinetic imagery process
References
Halprin, A. (2002).Returning to health with dance, movement, and imagery. Mendocina, CA:Life Rhythm.
Halprin, D. (2003).The expressive body in life, art and therapy.Philadelphia:Jessica Kingsley.
Journals:
The Arts in Psychotherapy
Journal of Applied Arts and Health
Journal of Creativity in Mental Health
Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Empirical research on the arts and counseling, psychotherapy and health can be found in a variety of professional journals, including journals in nursing and allied health, the modality based arts therapies, counseling, psychology and psychotherapy.