Social Work and the Arts

Shelley Cohen Konrad, PhD, LCSW, FNAP is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Collaborative Education and a social work professor at the University of New England. She graduated from Boston University, received an MSW and PhD from Simmons University, and is a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow in the National Academies of Practice and the Social Work Academy. She is a prolific writer and editor. Her book Child and Family Practice: A Relational Perspective, first and second editions, is used in classrooms around the country. She lives on the coast of Maine.Michal Sela-Amit, PhD, is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work in Los Angeles. She received BA and MA degrees in social work summa cum laude from the University of Haifa, Israel, and a PhD from the University of Southern California. She specializes in working with children, youth, and families, and teaches advanced practice courses in the Master ofSocial Work program at the University of Southern California. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I. Art & Education: Its Many FormsChapter 1: Worth a Thousand Words: A Bio-cognitive-spiritual Framework for Arts in Social Work EducationPeter SztoChapter 2: Art in Translation: Addressing Challenging Emotions from Classroom to PracticeShelley Cohen Konrad & Michal Sela-AmitChapter 3: Expressive Arts Within a Liberation Psychology Framework in Field Education Rafael AnguloChapter 4: Creative Arts in Social Work Education: 'Good Ideas', Domains, and ActivitiesLori PowerChapter 5: Social Work & the Arts: Through the Student LensEmily Frumkin, Brianna Lear, Jennifer Schoch, Sydney Siegel, Shefali Dutt, & Max DeebPart II. Arts & Research: Learning With and From Each OtherChapter 6: A Vision for Arts-Based Social Work ResearchRogério M. Pinto, Ephrat Huss, & Mimi V. ChapmanChapter 7: Affinity between the Aims of Social Work and the Mechanisms of Arts-Based ResearchEphrat HussChapter 8: Conducting Online Research in the Era of COVID: Theater-Based Methods to Study HIV-StigmaMarc Arthur & Rogério M. PintoPart III. Practice In Community: The Arts & Social WorkChapter 9: Creating Comics on the CurbKaty Finch Chapter 10: Coming Fully into the Present: How the Arts Have Shaped My Social Work PracticeClay GraybealChapter 11: A Vision for Engaging the Arts in Social Work PracticeBrian L. Kelly, Carrie Lanza, Raphael Travis, & Taylor Ellis Chapter 12: Building and Repairing through the ArtsNesrien Abu Ghazaleh, Osvaldo Heredia, Eltje Bos Chapter 13: "When I Hold the Door for You" Maya Williams Part IV: Foresightful EpilogueChapter 14: Four Ways the Arts Can Help Social Work Be More Future Ready and Future-EngagedLaura Nissen Continuing the Conversation: An Epilogue Shelley Cohen Konrad & Michal Sela-Amit AddendaRealm of the Dead: An Installation Performance Rogério M. Pinto The Calling Commentary and ScriptClay Graybeal

Based on discussions held at the Islandwood retreat center on Bainbridge Island in Washington State, this important book is a call to reintegrate social work with its historic roots in the arts...This is a thought-provoking guide for students and faculty in social work programs.