Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Art and Music Therapies

Alexander Street Video: 2:01:00
This presentation will focus on how Polyvagal Theory provides a plausible model to explain how and why intonation of voice and vocal music can support mental and physical health and enhance function during compromised states associated with illness, chronic stress, and trauma.

Alexander Street Video: 1:33:00
Social isolation and physical distancing during the current pandemic has reinforced a sense of immobilization, helplessness, and uncertainty as dominant trauma responses to what is essentially an unseen threat. Traditional methods fall short in addressing the paralyzing impacts of chronic fear, loneliness, and disempowerment. Join renowned expressive arts therapy and traumatic stress experts, Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, and Amber Elizabeth Gray, PhD as they discuss how we can address these impacts with clients through innovative sensory-based and embodied approaches.

ProQuest Video: 1:40:48
This presentation provides you with the basic concepts necessary to apply expressive approaches to help clients access embodied awareness and to effectively address experiences that leave individuals stuck in terror, isolation, and shame.

ProQuest Video: 23:37
In a world where Black women are expected to be invulnerable to pain, five Black women confront their personal struggles and explore healing through art.

Films on Demand: 1:11
Brain fog is often a side effect of an illness like COVID or medical treatment like chemotherapy for cancer. Scientists are studying the feasibility of treating brain fog with do it yourself music therapy.

Alexander Street Video: 1:06:00
At the heart of psychotherapy is the idea that listening to someone is an inherently healing act. Can an understanding of the grammar of music help us better understand the grammar of how patients communicate? Join NPR and PBS commentator Rob Kapilow [or conductor/composer/author—whichever you think is better] for a unique exploration inside the language of music to see if it can help us learn to listen.

Alexander Street Video: 2:00:00
Join Pamela Malkoff Hayes, who has over 15 years of experience with teletherapy, to learn simple and approachable art therapy techniques to assess and treat clients.

(American Art Therapy Association) Art therapy, facilitated by a professional art therapist, effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals as well as community concerns. Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change.

(Cleveland Clinic) Brief descriptions of art and music therapy, and the resources available at Cleveland Clinic

(Cleveland Clinic) Music therapy draws on the power of music in a therapeutic relationship to manage a range of conditions and improve your quality of life. A music therapist tailors sessions to your needs. You may sing or play instruments, listen to music or discuss the meaning of lyrics. You don’t need musical skills, and people of all ages can benefit.

(Art Therapy Credentials Board) Art therapy uses art media, the creative process, and the resulting artwork as a therapeutic and healing process.

(Stanford Medicine) Music therapy is an established health care profession that uses music to support a patient’s therapeutic goals

(American Music Therapy Association) Music Therapy is the clinical & evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.