Webinars
Webinars are seminars held on the web on serving survivors of torture. To see lists of webinars by topic please review the left-hand side of the page.
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All Webinars in Chronological Order
Expressive Arts Therapies with Survivors of Torture (click to play)06-23-2010
The presentation begins with an exercise that requires a figure. We recommend you download and print out the figure before watching the webinar. (in .pdf)
Attachments
Powerpoint from the presentation (in .ppt) (in .pdf)
Music & Dance Therapy Basics handout (in .doc) (in .pdf)
Web sites
For help in locating an art therapist in your area: Art Therapy Credentials Board http://www.atcb.org/find_a_credentialed_art_therapist/
Amber's web site: www.restorativeresources.net
Articles & Publications
Amber Gray made reference during this presentation to a chapter she wrote for a publication on promising practices in the field of torture treatment that the Florida Center for Survivors of Torture has in progress. If you would like to know more about this publication, please contact Abby Alexander at alexander@gcjfs.org.
Callaghan, K. (1993). Movement psychotherapy with adult survivors of political torture and organized violence. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 20, 411-421.
Callaghan, K.(1995). Torture—the body in conflict: The role of movement psychotherapy. In M. Liebmann (Ed.), Arts approaches to conflict. (pp. 249-272). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Callaghan, K. (1998). In limbo: Movement psychotherapy with refugees and asylum seekers. In D. Dokter (Ed.), Arts therapists, refugees and migrants: Reaching across borders (pp. 25-40). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Gray, A.E.L. (2009). “Cultural Rituals Surrounding Healing”. San Francisco Medicine, 82 (5).
Gray, A.E.L. (2008). “Dancing in our blood: Dance Movement Therapy with Street Children and Victims of Organized Violence in Haiti.” In Jackson, N., & T. Shapiro-Lim, Dance, Human Rights and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion.. 2008: Scarecrow Press.
Gray, A.E.L. Gray (2009). "Expressive Arts Therapies: Working with Survivors of Torture.” In Alexander, A., & Winter, A.M., Best, Promising, Emerging Practices. 2009, Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services/Florida Center for Survivors of Torture. *This chapter includes a more extensive reference list for a variety of expressive arts therapies
Gray, A.E.L. (2001)“The Body Remembers: Dance Movement Therapy with an Adult Survivor of Torture”. The Journal of Dance Therapy, Vol 23, (1). pp. 29-43.
Harris, D. A. (2007). Dance/movement therapy approaches to fostering resilience and recovery among African adolescent torture survivors. Torture: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture, 17(2): 134-155.
Harris, D. A. (2007). Pathways to embodied empathy and reconciliation: Former boy soldiers in a dance/movement therapy group in Sierra Leone. Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict, 5(3), 203-231.
Johnson, D.R., Lahad, M., & A. Gray. (2009). “Creative Therapies for Adults.” In Foa, E., Keane, T., Friedman, M. & J. Cohen, Effective Treatments for PTSD, Second Edition. 2009: The Guilford Press.
van der Kolk , B. A. (1994) The Body Keeps The Score: Memory & the Evolving Psychobiology of Post Traumatic Stress. Boston. Harvard Review of Psychiatry http://www.trauma-pages.com/a/vanderk4.php
van der Kolk, B.A. (2006) Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research in PTSD. New York Academy of Sciences
Research
Herman, J. (1997). Trauma and recovery. New York, N.Y.: Basic books.
Porges, S.W. (in press). Music Therapy & Trauma: Insights from the Polyvagal Theory. K. Stewart (Ed.), Symposium on Music Therapy & Trauma: Bridging Theory and Clinical Practice. New York: Satchnote Press. http://www.lifespanlearn.org/documents/Porges%20Music%20Therapy%20paper%20final%2011.27.2008.pdf
Terr, L. C. (1990). Too scared to cry. New York: Harper Collins.
van der Kolk, B. A. (1996). The complexity of adaptation to trauma self-deregulation, stimulusdiscrimination, and characterological development. In B. A. van der Kolk, A. C. McFarlane,& L. Weisaeth (Eds.). Traumatic stress, 182-213. New York: Guilford Press.
van der Kolk, B., & M. Greenberg. (1987). Retrieval and integration of traumatic memories with the “painting cure.” In van der Kolk, B. (Ed.), Psychological trauma (pp. 191-215). Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric press.
Theory
Schmais, C. Healing Processes in Group Dance Therapy (1985). The American Journal of Dance therapy, 8 (1), 1985. The Netherlands: Springer Publications.
Scott, E. H., (Speaker). (2002). Expressive arts therapy: The seven essential processes. On Mind-Body Conversations (CD No. 2), Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Associate Fellowship in Integrative Medicine.
Scott, E. H. & Ross, C. (2006). Integrating the creative arts into trauma and addiction treatment: Eight Essential Processes. In Psychological Trauma and Addiction Recovery. New York: Haworth Press. (PDF available for purchase and download)
