Dr Joanna Omylinska-Thurston's Outputs (4)

Arts for the blues: a new creative psychological therapy for depression (2024)
Book Chapter

Routinely prescribed psychological therapies for depression are not always effective. Arts therapies, particularly Dance Movement Psychotherapy, may offer additional therapeutic mechanisms for depression. Therefore, client-reported helpful factors fr... Read More about Arts for the blues: a new creative psychological therapy for depression.

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.

Working as a counselling psychologist in Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services (2022)
Book Chapter
Omylinska-Thurston, J., & Frost, C. (2022). Working as a counselling psychologist in Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services. In D. Best, H. Nicholas, & M. Bradley (Eds.), Roles and Contexts in Counselling Psychology. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159339

IAPT is the main provider of psychological therapy for adults within the National Health Service (NHS). It was developed in 2008 as a way of organising a systematic delivery of evidence-based interventions for anxiety and depression. Counselling psyc... Read More about Working as a counselling psychologist in Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services.

Digitising creative psychological therapy : Arts for the Blues (A4B) (2021)
Book Chapter

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a need to adapt and develop psychological interventions that address the mental health of those in need. As a result, Arts for the Blues (A4B), an evidence-based creative group psychotherapy model,... Read More about Digitising creative psychological therapy : Arts for the Blues (A4B).