All Outputs (2)

Dancing the Blues: An interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and therapists (2023)
Journal Article
Thurston, S., Griffin, J., Davismoon, S., Omylinska-Thurston, J., & Karkou, V. (2023). Dancing the Blues: An interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and therapists. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 14(2), 159-174. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00107_1

Creative practice differs widely across the contexts of artistic performance and therapy. In this article the authors describe a novel example of how the otherwise separate fields of choreographic practices and dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) have... Read More about Dancing the Blues: An interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and therapists.

Using Creative Arts Therapies to Work with Trauma Developed from Experiences of Domestic Abuse (2023)
Book Chapter
Omylinska-Thurston, J., & Gardner, L. (2023). Using Creative Arts Therapies to Work with Trauma Developed from Experiences of Domestic Abuse. In Working with Client Experiences of Domestic Abuse. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003253266-13

The chapter will introduce creative arts therapies as a way of working with complex trauma developed from experiences of domestic abuse. Ethical considerations when using creative methods when working with trauma will be highlighted. The chapter will... Read More about Using Creative Arts Therapies to Work with Trauma Developed from Experiences of Domestic Abuse.