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Creative Arts Therapiesat Parkway Health & Wellness

Michele Rattigan, MA, ATR-BC, NCC, LPCYasmine Awais, MAAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAT, LPC

Ellen Schelly-Hill, MMT, BC-DMT, NCC, LPCFlossie Ierardi, MM, MT-BC, LPC

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Parkway Health and Wellness

• Parkway Health & Wellness of the Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP) serves as a site for inter-professional collaboration across research and clinical practice.

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Parkway Health and Wellness offerings:

• Creative Arts Therapies (art, music, and dance/movement)• Individual, couple, and family therapies• Nutrition • Physical therapy• Women’s health services (starting Jan. 2017)• Mother Baby Connections

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Parkway Health and Wellness

Center City location:Three Parkway Building1601 Cherry Street, 2nd FloorPhiladelphia, PA 19102

Phone: 215.553.7012Email: CATappts@Drexel.edu

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Affordable Sliding Scale

Creative Arts Therapies and Couples & Family Therapies do not take insurance.

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Creative Arts Therapies: Our Mission

As credentialed creative arts therapists, our mission is to provide treatment utilizing the healing

power of the arts within the safety of a therapeutic relationship. We honor diversity of our clients’ cultures, abilities, and values.

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Creative Arts Therapies: Our Purpose

We strive to be a resource for our clients and local community through therapy, outreach, education, and advocacy.

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What are “Creative Arts Therapies”?

• Creative Arts Therapists are human service professionals who use distinct arts-based methods and creative processes for the purpose of ameliorating disability and illness and optimizing health and wellness. Treatment outcomes include, for example, improving communication and expression, and increasing physical, emotional, cognitive and/or social functioning (National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations)

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A non-verbal form of communication and expression for people of all ages and abilities

A creative way for individuals, groups, couples, and families to safely uncover and problem solve the heart of

the matter at hand

A resource for discovering strength and resilience

What isART THERAPY?

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Therapeutic Art Making• Community building• Relaxation• Stress reduction• Not necessarily art therapy and so does not require an art therapist

Art Therapy (above, plus...)• Symbolic expression for

• problem solving, • symptom relief, • relationship building, • And the overall enhancement of health

& psychological well being “This is what my life is like”

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Materials in Art Therapy

Sometimes people think only about drawing, painting, or clay; but art

therapists use lots of different materials -even digital media and photography- to

assist their clients.

NO ARTISTIC SKILL OR TALENT NECESSARY!

“Pain behind the eye.” Made on a computer program by someone experiencing chronic headaches.

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Music Therapy

“Music therapy is a reflexive process wherein the therapist helps the client to optimize the client’s health, using various facets of music experience and the relationships formed through them as the impetus for change.”

--Ken Bruscia, Defining Music Therapy, 2014

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Music Therapy• Accesses a preserved area of health• Provides a non-verbal means of self-

expression• Allows control over environment• Assists in pain management• Addresses quality of life, spirituality,

self-esteem

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Musicality• Intense human interest in music, evident from the early days of

life• Humans are intensely social; music is a largely social endeavor

• Sandra Trehub, 2003 (Nature Neuroscience)

• Music child: musical self; innate responsiveness to music in every human being

• Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy

• Musical skills develop naturally; inherent in all individuals• Cynthia Briggs, 1991 (Music Therapy)

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Dance/Movement Therapy…

is “the psychotherapeutic use of movement to promote

emotional, social, cognitive and physical integration of the

individual” (www.adta.org).

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Dance Movement Therapy

• Focuses on movement behavior in the therapeutic relationship. • Effective for individuals with developmental, medical, social, physical

and psychological impairments.• Can be helpful for people of all ages, races and ethnic backgrounds in

individual, couples, family and group therapy formats.

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‘But…I can’t dance…’“The extensive range of dance/movement therapy techniques and the needs and abilities of participants allow for a wide variety of movement activities in dance/movement therapy sessions. Dance/movement characteristics, from subtle and ordinary movement behaviors to expressive, improvisational dancing could occur” (www.adta.org).

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HIV/AIDS: Reflecting on 15 years in New York City

• YASMINE AWAIS, MAAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAT, LPC• Assistant Clinical Professor• Creative Arts Therapies Department

yasmine.awais@drexel.edu

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Creating, Listening, & Moving

Using the arts for reflection and self –care

(experiential)