Empirical studies in the creative arts therapies (CATs; ie, art therapy, dance/movement
therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, psychodrama, and poetry/bibliotherapy) have grown …

Highlights•Creative art therapies are a type of psychosocial intervention for mental
illness.•Pilot trials and case reports generally report improvement to various outcomes.•Yet …

Depression experienced by older adults is proving an increasing global health burden, with
rates generally 7% and as high as 27% in the USA. This is likely to significantly increase in …

The separate arts therapies–drama, art, music and dance–are becoming available to
increasing numbers of clients as mental health professionals discover their potential to …

Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of adding music therapy (MT)
to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) on symptoms of smartphone/internet addiction and …

Abstract Art therapists can engage medical inpatients in the creation of art to encourage
emotional and physical healing. Utilizing a chart review, the impact of art therapy sessions at …

Stress and anxiety pose a threat to college students' academic performance as well as their
long‐term mental and physical health, but the time constraints of a rigorous academic …

Background Stress during pregnancy is detrimental to maternal health, pregnancy and birth
outcomes and various preventive relaxation interventions have been developed. This …

Emotional awareness and acceptance of emotion are associated with improved health in
breast cancer (BC) patients. Art therapy (AT) uses visual art-making for expression and …

Chronic nonmalignant pain is recognized as a complex, dynamic, phenomenological
interplay between biological, psychological, and social factors that are individual to the …