Treatment Planning, Writing, and Documentation in Creative and Expressive Arts Therapies

Mary L. Affee, EdD, LCSW, RPT-S, is the founder and clinical director of Horizon Integrated Wellness Group, a private practice in North Carolina.Taylor E. Auslander, LCSW-A, was a graduate teaching assistant for the School of Social Work at North Carolina State University. Jill K. Weidknecht, PhD, LCMHCS, NCPSC, RPT-S, EAGALA Certified, is the director of the Professional School Counseling Program and associate professor at Appalachian State University. She has over 25 years of school counseling and clinical mental health experience.

• Part 1: Creating a Framework Using Creative and Expressive Arts 1. Creative Arts Counseling 2. Expressive Arts Therapy: The Birth and Development of a Field 3. Using the Expressive Therapies Continuum in Assessment and Treatment Planning 4. Healing Trauma through Expressive Arts 5. Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy 6. A Multicultural Perspective: Assessment and Treatment Planning for BIPOC Children Part 2: Creative and Expressive Modalities: Writing and Documentation 7. Digital Art Therapy: Efficacy with Behavioral Health Youth-In-Crisis in the Pediatric Emergency Department 8. Strumming Through Bereavement in Music Therapy 9. Equine Assisted Psychotherapy 10. Adventure-Based Therapy 11. Practical and Playful Somatic Applications of Polyvagal Theory for Trauma Treatment 12. Attunement-Oriented Expressive Arts Therapy: Relationally Responsive Group Planning 13. Embodied Metaphors: Deepening the Power of Journal and Poetry Therapies with Psychodrama 14. Qoya-Inspired Movement: Movement as Metaphor for Embodied Healing 15. Expressive Writing and Cancer: Reflections on a Decade of Facilitating Journaling Workshops 16. Gang Prevention, Intervention, and Re-Entry 17. Hip Hop Therapy: A Culturally Resonant Approach to Trauma Treatment 18. Empathy to Compassion: A Physiological Basis for Trust 19. Working with Migrants through Rhythmic Attunement 20. When finding the words is just too difficult: Using Creative-Expressive Arts in Counseling with Students in International K-12 Schools 21. Neurons that Fire Together Wire Together: How the Creative-Expressive Arts Affect the Brain in Patients who have Endured Trauma 22. The Sands of Time: Sandtray as Timekeeper for Termination 23. Tending Transitions: A Mixed Media Approach to Navigating Therapeutic Completion Part 3: Creative and Expressive Arts: Beyond the Sessions 24. Embodied Wellbeing as Essential Practice for the Clinician 25. Nurturing Growth: The Role of Supervision in Mental Health Practice