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Art Therapy
1. American Art Therapy Association (AATA)
The AATA is a national association dedicated to the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life enhancing. Founded in 1969 AATA is a not-for-profit organization of approximately 4,750 professionals and students that has established standards for art therapy education, ethics, and practice. AATA committees actively work on professional and educational development, national conferences, regional symposia, publications, governmental affairs, public awareness, research, & other activities that enhance the practice of art therapy.
- New Horizons
An international network of people, programs, and products dedicated to successful, innovative learning. As such, this organization:
• Acts as a catalyst for positive change in education
• Seeks out, synthesizes, and communicates relevant research and information
• Supports an expanded vision of learning that identifies and fosters the fullest development of human capabilities
• Works to implement proven strategies for learning at every age and ability level
• Builds support for comprehensive lifespan learning communities
• Sponsors The New Horizons for Learning website.
A few interesting links:
• (articles on multiple Intelligences)
3. The British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT)
The BAAT is the professional organization for art therapists in the United Kingdom and has its own Code of Ethics of Professional Practice. Comprising of 20 regional groups, a European and an international section, it maintains a comprehensive directory of qualified art therapists and works to promote art therapy in the UK.
4. Vicky Barber’s Art Therapy Home Page and Web Site
BOOKS & ARTICLES:
1. A task-oriented Approach to Art Therapy in Trauma Treatment by Anita B. Rankin, Alexandria, VA and Lindsey C. Taucher, Austin, TX. 2003.
Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 20(3) pp.138-147 c.2003
2. The Art of Art Therapy by Judith Arom Rubin. 1984. Brunner/Mazel, Inc.
Arts and Healing
1. Art & Creativity for Healing Inc. (ACH)
Founded in 2000, ACH is a non-profit organization that facilitates fine arts classes and workshops for children, teens and adults suffering from abuse, illness, grief and stress. Art & Creativity for Healing provides free classes and taught by Founder/Director Laurie Zagon and her team of highly qualified facilitators, on-site at hospitals, treatment facilities and non-profit agencies throughout Southern California.
2. The Space
The space is a culturally diverse open studio for all ages and abilities, dedicated to promoting the well-being of our community through our educational, experiential, and experimental program.
The Space in Nantucket, MA 02554 T. 508.825.0900 E.
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The Healing Power of Art
Artist and writer, Shifra Stein is a firm believer in the deep connection between art and healing. Her own life reflects her positive commitment to art as a tool that can be used to renew and regenerate the spirit and act as a constructive catalyst for change.
4. The Family Institute for Creative Well-Being
Mission: enhance the emotional, social, and spiritual health of families who have members with disabilities or chronic illness through use of the creative arts.
The emotional, social and spiritual are three of the four foundations of health. The fourth foundation is the physical. This is the realm of health that receives the most attention - particularly with disabilities and chronic illnesses. However, the effects of ongoing health conditions are not limited to the physical real, they impact our emotions and social connections and they impact the meanings we attribute to life.
Creative arts can act as a powerful tool in shaping internal and external perspectives that impact - the course and outcome of a health condition - as well as the overall well-being of the family.
6. Kids Peace
A growing number of clinicians are discovering that the addition of expressive art experiences to their therapies for children and adolescents can produce dramatic results. When patients are offered a non-threatening opportunity to express their true selves, treatment can become fun, can move at a quicker rate, and can achieve greater depth… It’s called Tape Art.
7. Growing Through It
Growing Through It™ (GTI) is committed to providing new opportunities for people to express themselves through creative process™. Personal exploration and discovery through creative arts opens doors to new levels of healing, growth, communication and creative thinking.
Growing Through It (GTI) Services:
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• Direct Workshop Facilitation - We design and facilitate GTI workshops for groups, organizations and individuals.
• GTI Facilitator Training - Train your staff or yourself to take an individual or group through the holistic and innovative GTI process.
• Consulting Services - Bittin will consult with you regarding artistic approaches towards personal healing and creative recovery methods.
• Presentations Dynamic and informative presentations for a wide variety of audiences.
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All GTI Services are designed and implemented to meet specific needs.
8. The Healing Story Alliance
Our purpose is to explore and promote the use of storytelling in healing. Our goal for this special interest group is to share our experience and our skills, to increase our knowledge of stories and our knowledge of the best ways to use stories to inform, inspire, nurture and heal. We also wish to reach beyond our storytelling community to share with those in other service professions; therapists, clergy, health care practitioners of all kinds, anyone who can see the benefit of story as a tool for healing. We hope you will join us.
9. Seeing U Through
Gail ignites a spark to empower you to improve the lives of the children whose lives you touch. As a professional trainer, through the workshops she offers, Gail encourages building bridges with positive communication and creativity for those who work with children, educators, and in the workplace. Gail is gifted in cultivating the seeds of your creativity to grow the concepts of lessons into intriguing activities that take root in the minds of the learner.
10. VSA arts International
VSA arts is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1974 by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith. VSA arts is creating a society where people with disabilities can learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts. Designated by The US Congress as the coordinating organization for arts programming for persons with disabilities, VSA arts offers arts-based programs in creative writing, dance, drama, music & the visual arts. Nearly five million people with disabilities participate in VSA arts programs every year through a network of affiliates in 49 states & DC and 64 countries worldwide.
• VSA arts of WA’s Seattle Center Artists Studio
We are open to everyone! Program offers inclusive, community-based art experiences. For those exploring a career in arts, our studio supports the use of shared studio space, group exhibits and other avenues for professional development. Stop by or call to make an appointment for an orientation tour.
11. Empty & Meaningless Project
In certain cultures there is the notion of a state of "being" where there is no past and no future. The past is simply that which has gone before, and the future does not exist. There is only this moment, now, where we live. It has no story attached to it, no pre-determined belief system informing it. It is simply a state of mind, spirit and body that is the expression of existence itself.
12. Survivors Art Foundation
Healing through Art ... Art through Healing: Dedicated to encourage healing through the arts, Survivors Art Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to empowering trauma survivors with effective expressive outlets via internet art gallery, outreach programs, national exhibitions, publications and development of employment skills.
Participation in SAF is FREE! All Visual and Literary submissions will be permanently archived for possible use on the web site, in future projects, exhibitions and publications. Submission of work does not guarantee placement in such projects. Please do not send originals. Submissions cannot be returned.
BOOKS, MAGAZINES & ARTICLES:
- (a helpful site to search for books and compare)
- The Creative Brain by Ned Herrmann. 1989, 1999 by Author.
- The Inward Journey: Art as Therapy for You by Margaret Frings Keyes. 1974 Celestial Arts.
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards.
Welcome to the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Website! If you would like to learn to draw skillfully and beautifully, are teaching drawing, or just want to enhance your creativity, you are in the right place.The work of Dr. Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, has enabled millions of people around the world to learn to draw. Here, we will introduce you to her teaching technique, a little of the theory behind it, and to an exercise that demonstrates its effectiveness.
5. Introduction to Art Techniques
By Ray Smith, James Horton, Michael Wright / Paperback/February 2000
6. Oil Painting for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter
By Steve Allrich / Paperback/June1996
7. How to Draw People. By Barbara Soloff Levy, Barbara Soloff-Levy / Paperback/May2002
8. How to Draw Cartoons & Caricatures. By Judy Tatchell / Paperback/October1990
9. An Introduction to Oil Painting. By Ray Smith / Paperback/May1998
10. The Art of Outdoor Photography: Techniques for the Advanced Amateur & Professional
By Boyd Norton / Paperback/February2002
11. American Artist Magazine
Creating Art: Your Rx for Health - 2 parts - by Robin Longman. June 1994
12. Art as Healing Force Web
In this dark time, pray for world peace. Make art to heal for forgiveness, love, and peace. Dance, make music, draw, and write, with your friends, patients, and loved ones. Do ritual and ceremony for peace not war, for forgiveness not hatred. Help those who are in pain with art as healing today.
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Article Title:Growing Through Experiencesby: Kim Stilwell
It is very important that we not base God's will on experience. Instead we should base God's will on His Word. However, often God will reinforce His Word through an experience. We can grow in our spiritual life through experiences.
Music and Healing
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"Jeff Moyer is an important and unique musician, not just for the Disability Rights Movement, but for all of us. His music, his message, and his mission make us all whole."John McCutcheon, 1998 Grammy Award Winner - Best Children's CD
Poetry and Healing
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0874778824.html The Healing Art of Poem-Making
Fox’s POETIC MEDICINE: The Healing Art of Poem-Making is a user-friendly book. You will find yourself circling phrases, underlining sentences, writing in the margins, completing the expertly crafted exercises and drifting in thought and reflection over poetry that touches your soul. The format also includes a wonderful collection of side bars with poetry and quotes by a wide variety of poets, writers and philosophers.
2. Richard M. Berlin’s site
Doctors need poetry to bring them closer to their patients. But even as I write these words I can hear my colleagues groan, "There’s an AIDS epidemic, I can’t afford my malpractice insurance, the obstetricians have stopped delivering babies, and you’re going to tell me I need poetry?"
Brain Injury on-line
Find interesting links: go to google & type: traumatic brain injury, brain trauma, or any near variation. It’s amazing where you may be lead…..have fun and learn…
1. BIA of America
Esp.: Links page
2. Nichey
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an injury to the brain caused by the head being hit by something or shaken violently. (The exact definition of TBI, according to special education law, is given below.) This injury can change how the person acts, moves, and thinks. A traumatic brain injury can also change how a student learns and acts in school. The term TBI is used for head injuries that can cause changes in one or more areas, such as:
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• thinking & reasoning,
• understanding words,
• remembering things,
• paying attention,
• solving problems,
• thinking abstractly,
• talking,
• behaving,
• walking & other physical activities,
• seeing &/or hearing, &
• learning.
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IDEA's Definition of "Traumatic Brain Injury"
Our nation’s special education law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) defines traumatic brain injury as... “...an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment; problem-solving; sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psycho-social behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech. The term does not apply to brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative, or to brain injuries induced by birth trauma.” [34 Code of Federal Regulations §300.7(c)(12)]
Tips for Parents
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• Learn about TBI. The more you know, the more you can help yourself and your child. See the list of resources & organizations at the end of publication.
• Work with the medical team to understand your child’s injury and treatment plan. Don’t be shy about asking questions. Tell them what you know or think. Make suggestions.
• Keep track of your child’s treatment. A 3-ring binder or a box can help you store this history. As your child recovers, you may meet with many doctors, nurses, and others. Write down what they say. Put any paperwork they give you in the notebook or throw it in the box. You can’t remember all this! Also, if you need to share any of this paperwork with someone else, make a copy. Don’t give away your original!
• Talk to other parents whose children have TBI. There are parent groups all over the U.S. Parents can share practical advice and emotional support. Call NICHCY (1-800-695-0285) to find out how to find parent groups near you.
• If your child was in school before the injury, plan for his or her return to school. Get in touch with the school. Ask the principal about special education services. Have the medical team share information with the school.
• When your child returns to school, ask the school to test your child as soon as possible to identify his or her special education needs. Meet with the school and help develop a plan for your child called an Individualized Education Program (IEP).
• Keep in touch with your child’s teacher. Tell the teacher about how your child is doing at home. Ask how your child is doing in school.
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Tips for Teachers
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• Find out as much as you can about the child’s injury and his or her present needs. Find out more about TBI. See the list of resources and organizations at the end of this publication.
• Give the student more time to finish schoolwork and tests.
• Give directions one step at a time. For tasks with many steps, it helps to give the student written directions.
• Show the student how to perform new tasks. Give examples to go with new ideas and concepts.
• Have consistent routines. This helps the student know what to expect. If the routine is going to change, let the student know ahead of time.
• Check to make sure that the student has actually learned the new skill. Give the student lots of opportunities to practice the new skill.
• Show the student how to use an assignment book and a daily schedule. This helps the student get organized.
• Realize that the student may get tired quickly. Let the student rest as needed.
• Reduce distractions.
• Keep in touch with the student’s parents. Share information about how the student is doing at home and at school.
• Be flexible about expectations. Be patient. Maximize the student’s chances for success.
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Resources
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DeBoskey, D.S. (Ed.). (1996). Coming home: A discharge manual for families of persons with a brain injury. Houston, TX: HDI. (Telephone: 800.321.7037. Web:
DePompei, R., Blosser, J., Savage, R., & Lash, M. (1998). Special education: IEP checklist for a student with a brain injury. Wolfeboro, NH: L&A Publishing/Training. (Telephone: 919.562.0015. Web: