Creative Arts Therapies Approaches in Adoption and Foster Care : Contemporary Strategies for Working with Individuals and Families

by Betts, Donna J.

• ISBN13: 9780398073879
• ISBN10: 0398073872
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: THOMAS CHARLES C PUBLISHER

Author Biography

Victoria Bryan: STOP-GAP Co-Founder Sherry Diamond, M.A., RDT: President-Elect of the Board of Directors for the National Association for Drama Therapy; Expansion Project Director/Program Director for Acacia Adult Day Services in Garden Grove, California; drama therapist for more than 15 years; and freelance writer Mimi Farrelly-Hansen, M.A., ATR, LPC: Founder, former director and current adjunct faculty of the graduate art therapy program at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado; clinician for 20 years, work focused largely on abused children; more recent interests include couples, groups, feminine spirituality, ecopsychology, and transcultural/transracial adoption issues Deborah Good, Ph.D., ATR-BD, LPAT, LPCC: Private practice, Albuquerque, New Mexico; AATA Past-Presiden Steve Harvey, Ph.D., ADTR, RPT-S, RDT: U.S. Naval Hospital, Sigonella, Italy. Lisa D. Hinz, Ph.D., ATR: Private practice, Pasadena, California; adjunct faculty member, Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College, Master of Arts Therapy Program, Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana Allison Hurwitz, M.A., ATR: New York University graduate; art therapist at Kennedy Child Study Center, Bronx, New York; private practice; facilitator of creative arts therapy workshops at various social service agencies in New York City; advisory board member of Fresh Art, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping artists with special needs since 1998 David L. Hussey, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies, Kent State University; Faculty Associate, Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Kent State University; Director of Research and Evaluation, Beech Brook Donna Kaiser, M.S., LPC, LMFT, ATR-BC: Doctoral candidate in Counselor Education, William and Mary, completing dissertation research on the experiences of novice family counselors during internship training; art therapist and family therapist at William J. Farley Center, an international addictions treatment facility for impaired health professionals, Williamsburg, Virginia Fionnula Kenny, M.A.: STOP-GAP Artistic Director Don R. Laffoon, M.A., RDT/BCT: STOP-GAP Cofounder and Executive Director Melany Lawlor, M.A.: Artist and art therapist, works with transcultural/transracially adopted children; has worked with children in residential treatment and conducted home-based therapy with families in crisis; graduate of the Art Therapy program, Naropa University Deborah Layman, M.M., MT-BC: Beech Brook, Cleveland, Ohio Yun Jung Lee, M.A.: Member of AATA and Delaware Valley Art Therapy Association Wendy Miller, Ph.D., ATR, REAT, LPC: Member of AATA; member of International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA); cofounder and practicing clinician, Create Therapy Institute; founding member and Past Executive Cochair of International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA); associate of Sandplay Therapists of America (STA); licensed member of DC Mental Health Counselors Association (DCMHCA); member of Potomac Art Therapy Association; adjunct faculty at California Institute of Integral Studies Stacey Murray-Park, M.A.: Kansas State University, Theatre with specialization in Drama Therapy; National Association of Drama Therapy, student member Joan Phillips, M.A., M.S., LMFT, LPC, ATR-BC: University of Oklahoma; private practice. Mary Reher, MTA, FAMI: Accredited member, Canadian Association for Music Therapy; fellow/member, Association for Music and Imagery; member, Music Therapy Association of British Columbia Shanee Stepakoff, Ph.D., RPT, LCP: A licensed clinical psychologist and registered poetry therapist. She is on the staff of the Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and serves as Biblo/Poetry Therapy Consultant for the Boston Institute for Arts Therapy. She is an adjunct faculty member in the graduate program in expressive therapies at Lesley University, and maintains a private practice Elizabeth Warson, M.A., ATR-BC, LPC: Doctoral student at Colorado State University; private practice; contract with the Colorado Department of Youth Corrections; graduate of Vermont College; AATA Chair of the Committee on Professional Practice, 2002; president of ATAC; exhibiting artist

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Adoption
The Use of Art Therapy in the Identity Formation of a Preadolescent Adoptee with Multiple Disabilities	p. 5
Alien, Joker, Animal, Human: The Story of an Adoptee's Identity Quest in Simultaneous Treatment Using Art Therapy	p. 24
The Dance of Belonging: An Exploration of Identity Through the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music	p. 41
An Adoptee's Journey to Self: Containing the Liminality of the Adoption Ritual Through Drama Therapy	p. 62
Dynamic Play Therapy with Adoptive Families	p. 77
Searching for a Story That Makes Sense: Bibliotherapy with a 6-Year-Old Boy in Transition From Long-Term Foster Care to Adoption	p. 97
Music Therapy Issues and Strategies for Working with Adopted and Foster Care Children	p. 114
Foster Care
From Foster Care to Indian Boarding School: Empowering Native Youth	p. 131
The Use of Art Therapy in Impacting Individual and Systemic Issues in Foster Care	p. 143
When the Bough Breaks: The STOP-GAP Method in Foster Care	p. 152
Nina and the Bad Animals Who Bite: The Use of Art Therapy with Children in Foster Care	p. 168
Art Therapy Approaches with Unbonded Children and Adolescents	p. 191
Transcultural and Transracial Issues
The Use of Art Therapy in Assessing for International Adoption Appropriateness	p. 205
Metaphors of Identity and Motifs of Expression: Clinical Observations on International Adoption and the Use of the Sand Tray Process in Art Therapy with Internationally Adopted Children	p. 214
Understanding Identity Formation of Intercountry Adolescent Adoptees Through Verbal Interview and Visual Representation	p. 261
Art Therapy Support Groups for Transculturally and/or Transracially Adopted Children	p. 288
Name Index	p. 309
Subject Index	p. 313
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