Abstracts by Multi-Modality Presentations
 
The following is an alphabetical list of brief abstracts for the multi-modality Creative Arts Therapies presentations. Underlined titles have full-text available (click once on the title).  
 
Assessment in the Creative Arts Therapies: Where are we? Where do we need to go? 
Moderator: Elizabeth Anthony, MA, ATPQ. 
Panelists, Centre for the Arts in Human Development: 
Anna Barrafato, MA, Miranda D'Amico, PhD, Nathalie Leduc, MCAT, MTA, Leland Peterson, MAAT, ATR, Joanabbey Sack, MA, ADTR, Stephen Snow, PhD, RDT/BCT, Denise Tanguay, MA, ATR, ATPQ, Lenore Vosberg, MSW. 
Assessment research, from the perspective of background and status of assessment, gathered over the past three years will be discussed, followed by current developments at the Centre, featuring videotape, audiotape and slides. 
 
Supervision in the Training of Creative Arts Therapists: Concepts, approaches, issues.  
Moderator: Nicole Beaudry, PhD.  
Panelists:Debbie Carroll, MA, MTA, Irene Gericke, MA, ATR, ATPQ, Johanne Hamel, MPsy, ATR, ATPQ,  
Christine Novy, MA, Dip. Dthy, Dip. Pthy, Josée Préfontaine, MA, CMT, MTA, Joanabbey Sack, MA, ADTR, Yehudit Silverman, MA, DTR, Stephen Snow PhD, RDT/BCT.  
Aiming to provide a forum for exchange and reflection on supervision, this panel will focus on aspects relating to format, relationships, evaluation, ethical practice and cross-disciplinary supervision. 
 
Negotiating Wellness Using the Creative Arts in Aboriginal Communities. 
Leigh Bulmer, MA & Diane Gatterman, MA, PhD in progress. 
This paper will focus on how the creative arts therapies have been used in Aboriginal communities across North America, with an emphasis on applicability and trends geared towards future implementations. It will include a summary of research findings, a discussion of issues related to working in a cross-cultural setting, and the impact of creative arts therapies on Aboriginal ideologies of wellness and healing. 
 
Life in a Cereal Box: Expressive therapies for women with breast cancer. 
Julia Byers, PhD, ATR, LMHC. 
A psychosocial support group for women in different phases of diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer helped them build a strong and deep sense of community, thereby reducing complex feelings of isolation. This interactive session explores the interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics of therapists working with this population. 
 
Family Attunement Through Creative Arts Therapy. 
Christine Caldwell, PhD, LPC, ADTR. 
Emerging research emphasizes the need for attunement via movement empathy in a healthy family system. Creative arts therapists can help families increase attunement, beginning with mother-infant bonding through sibling and couples work. The workshop will focus on reading and responding to non-verbal communications. 
 
The Biology of our Psychology: New understandings of how biology influences behaviour and how creative arts therapies can make use of them. 
Christine Caldwell, PhD, LPC, ADTR. 
Much recent biological research notes that how we move influences our biochemistry, which in turn influences our mood, our ability to feel pleasure, our energy level and attentional sharpness, our creativity, our ability to handle stress, and even our intelligence. By understanding these new concepts we can design clinical strategies based in biological as well as psychological research. 
 
From Reel to Real: Use of films in creative arts therapies. 
Abby Calisch, PsyD, ATR-BC. 
This paper discusses the background, history and the advantages of filmwork as a therapeutic tool. It discusses the process of utilizing, assigning and processing the viewing experience of the client in a therapeutic context as compared to casual viewing. It offers a list of various films categorized by topical issues and directives for viewing. 
 
The Neurobiology of Creative Arts Therapy and Trauma.  
Linda Chapman, MA, ATR-BC, RPT-S. 
Keynote Speaker 
This address is designed to provide participants with knowledge of the neurobiological and psychological changes that occur during and after traumatic events and how to respond clinically, through the use of creative arts therapy and imagery, to the physical manifestations of the neurochemical changes. 
La neurobiologie des thérapies par les arts et le traumatisme. 
Conférencière invitée 
Cette conférence instruira les auditeurs des changements neurobiologiques et psychologiques qui interviennent pendant et après les évènements traumatiques. Elle précisera la manière de répondre cliniquement aux manifestations physiques des changements neurochimiques en utilisant les thérapies par les arts et l'imagerie. 
 
Community Art in a Rural First Nations Village. 
Peggy Clarkson, MA, RCC, ATR, RCAT. 
Participants will be taken on a journey to the remote land of the Haida Nation. Slides and video of community art studios will be shown. This multi-media presentation will demonstrate the power of the traditions of art, dance, drumming, food and song to celebrate community building and healing. 
 
Synthesis in a Deconstructed World.  
Michael Edwards, Fellow and HLM, BAAT, Dip. Analytical Psychology. 
Opening Address 
As new therapeutic ideas evolve and the nature of art is subject to constant innovation and change, we may evaluate the contribution of “the healing image” in a society increasingly susceptible to fragmentation. 
La synthèse dans un monde déconstruit. 
Conférence d'ouverture 
Dans un contexte où la nature de l'art est en constante évolution, et à mesure que de nouvelles idées émergent dans le champ thérapeutique, il est opportun d'examiner l'apport de “l'image guérisseuse” à une société de plus en plus sujette à la fragmentation. 
 
Le conte thérapeutique. 
Marie Gérin, MA, ATPQ. 
Cet atelier propose une démarche dans laquelle le conte reflète notre manière de réagir aux défis que la vie nous propose. Au moyen de divers modes d'expression, de la couleur à l'argile en passant par le mouvement et les sons, les participants créeront, en plusieurs étapes, un conte personnel.  
 
La création comme processus de transformation. 
Jean-Pierre Klein, MD. 
Conférencier invité 
L'art-thérapie consiste en un accompagnement de créations dans un parcours symbolique au service du développement de la personne vers un aller-mieux et un être-davantage. La thérapie ajoute à l'art le projet de tranformation de soi-même. L'art ajoute à la thérapie l'ambition de figurer une version de l'universel. 
Creation as a transformation process.  
Keynote Speaker 
Art therapy accompanies the symbolic journey of creation in the service of the self, developing towards its full potential. Therapy adds to art the project of self- transformation. Art adds to therapy the ambition of picturing a version of universality. 
 
Le plan d'intervention et la formulation des objectifs en thérapies par les arts. 
Linda Labbé, MTA. 
Le but de l'atelier est de faire réaliser aux participants l'importance de bien formuler les objectifs d'un plan d'intervention et la façon d'y parvenir. La différence sera faite entre les buts, les objectifs généraux et les objectifs spécifiques utilisés lors de l'élaboration d'un plan d'intervention. 
 
L'évaluation, le plan d'intervention et la formulation des objectifs en thérapies par les arts. 
Linda Labbé, CMT. 
La formulation des objectifs est un aspect important de l'évaluation pour tous les thérapeutes. La première partie du cours fera la différence entre les buts, les objectifs généraux et les objectifs spécifiques utilisés lors de l'élaboration d'un plan d'intervention. En deuxième partie, les participants seront invités à faire quelques exercices de compréhension, notamment l'élaboration d'un plan d'intervention. 
 
CATS on the Net: The internet and the creative arts therapies. 
Francine Lévesque, MA, ATPQ. 
The internet is here to stay, forever changing our habitual ways of generating and sharing information. As these profound transformations change our cultural landscape, creative art therapists can benefit both personally and professionally from knowing how to comprehend and use the many available web tools, to network, to disseminate knowledge, or to invent new research paradigms. 
 
Le rituel du masque : Une ancienne voie de transformation pour nos temps modernes. 
Nicole Paquet, PhD, ATPQ. 
Cet atelier expérientiel cherche à démontrer la richesse du travail intermodal en thérapie par les arts ainsi que le potentiel guérisseur du dialogue évoqué par l'énergie de l'image. 
 
Creative Process in Clinical Practice. 
Yehudit Silverman, MA, DTR. 
What is the creative process? What are the themes, structures and theories that form the basis of all creativity? This workshop will use discussion and interdisciplinary creative exercises to discover how the creative process can be a model for therapeutic intervention. Myths, fairytales and archetypal symbols will be explored in relation to their clinical application. 
 
Rhythm and Mirror: Group work with developmentally disabled adults. 
Lisa K. Sokil, MA. 
Creating, adapting and mirroring rhythms are activities that challenge and strengthen the perception, processing and expressive skills of adults with moderate to severe developmental disabilities. We will actively explore a series of creative activities bridging music, movement and drama that have been highly successful with a group in Victoria, B.C. 
 
Formation à l'art-thérapie, version française. 
Edith Viarmé, DEAS. 
Dans les groupes d'intégration de la formation en art-thérapie, les participants amènent des problématiques complexes de travail sur le terrain dans les différents champs sociaux; des thématiques s'en dégagent qui contribuent aux conceptions originales de la démarche art- thérapique.