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ARTEVELDE UNIVERSITY, GENT

17th European Arts Therapies Conference​

11-14 September 2024

DAY TWO PROGRAMME IN DETAIL 12 SEPTEMBER

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KEYNOTE  9.00-10.15

The Right to Hope

Dijana Milošević

Location: Stropkaai

PAPERS  11.00-12.30

PAPER SESSION 1 ART   

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A01.01

Paper 1: 
Places of loneliness

Karin Dannecker (Chair: Marián López Fernández Cao)

Paper 2: 

The Shutters have Eyes – an autobiographical play about homosexuality and the power of art in dark times

Luis Formaiano (Chair: Marián López Fernández Cao)

PAPER SESSION 2 ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A03.01

Paper 1: 

Resistance and provocation to reinvent a story in their own way: the case of children of immigrant background during school-based creative expression workshops

Caroline Beauregard (Chair: Alenka Vidrih)

Paper 2: 
Creating spaces in the dark

Manuela Falcón Wahrmann (Chair: Alenka Vidrih)

PAPER SESSION 3 ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A01.03

Paper 1:

Focussing on Health: How the art form expresses adaptability and balance using the ArTA method for art therapy assessment

Ingrid Pénzes (Chair: Barbara van de Loo)

Paper 2: 

The open studio therapeutic process in a psychiatric setting

for adolescents from the point of view of participating

youth: a qualitative analysis

Daniela Finkel (Chair: Barbara van de Loo)

PAPER SESSION 4 ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A01.04

Paper 1:

Rewilding, resisting and resting in collaboration with the more-than-human in art therapy education: Tales from a walled garden

Adrienne McDermid-Thomas (Chair: Ann Maes)

Paper 2:  Hospital clinicians’ experiences of a work – based group art therapy intervention aimed at reducing burnout: Qualitative findings from a clinical trial 

 Megan Tjasink (Chair: Ann Maes)

PAPER SESSION 5 MUSIC

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A01.05

Paper 1:

Therapeutic change in the music therapy processes of working-age people with depression-related disorders – A mixed method study

Tiia-Liina Raittila & Esa Ala-Ruona (Chair: Catherine Warner)

Paper 2: 

Home-based family caregiver-delivered music and reading interventions for people living with dementia: an international randomised controlled trial (HOMESIDE trial)

Felicity Baker (Chair: Catherine Warner)

PAPER SESSION 6 

DRAMA

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A01.06

Paper 1:

 Brecht, theatre, therapy and activism 

Anna Seymour  (Chair: Salvo Pitruzzela)

Paper 2: 

The psychometric effects of drama therapy on socioeconomically disadvantaged and refugee women in Lebanon.

Lina Haddad Kreidie  (Chair: Salvo Pitruzzela)

PAPER SESSION 7 

DANCE

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A01.07

Paper 1:

Stolen seeds and dancing together through dark times: A DMT case presentation on child sexual abuse, trauma and psychosis

Maika Campo & Heidrun Panhoffer (Chair: Aleka Loutsis)

Paper 2: 

Dancing with grandparents to create creativity and optimism in times of loss.

Einat Shuper Engelhard & Maya Vulcan (Chair: Aleka Loutsis)

PAPER SESSION 8 

MIXED

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A02.05

Paper 1:

Integrative recovery theoretical model: Findings of a mixed-methods study on the process and outcomes of a music and arts pre-academic program for individuals with mental health conditions

MayaaSalomon-Gimmon (Chair: Mimmu Rankanen)

Paper 2: 

Creating to find light after dark times: Project: From Negative Thinking to Positive Acting

Suzanne Haeyen, Karin Timmerman, Imke Wiersma, Jackie Heijman & Hans Wouters (Chair: Mimmu Rankanen)

PAPER SESSION 9 

MIXED

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A02.04

Paper 1:

Invincible light

Jurate Sucylaite (Chair: Henriette Bloemenkamp)

Paper 2: 

'Love is the magic ingredient' in our coproduction relationship: an art therapist and people with learning disabilities share their experiences of coproducing research

Nicola Power (Chair: Henriette Bloemenkamp)

PAPER SESSION 10 

EDUCATION

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A03.03

Paper 1:

The transformative mode of teaching enables growing therapists that are able to voice ethics and social morals – The Poetic of art materials as they bond with the mental materials of survivors attending an open studio in times of disaster and trauma 

Ofira Honig (Chair: Mathieu Van der Straeten)

Paper 2: 

Integrating Expressive Therapies Continuum In Higher Education Of Applied Artists

Jasmina Pacek (Chair: Mathieu Van der Straeten)

POSTERS  13.00-13.45 

POSTER 1 

MUSIC 

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

Biofeedback in arts therapies: music therapy at young-onset dementia at home

Hetty Cornelissen

POSTER 2 

ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

The ambivalence around the ashtray

Alkistis Karouli

POSTER 3 

ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

Building bridges between (un)usual areas – story of a

doctor and art therapist in training in the context of a

mandatory practical internship in Brazil: a report on the

experience in the field

Ana Carolina Hidaka Koga with Celso Falaschi, Fabíola Maria Gaspar & Marlene Oliveira Souza Martins

POSTER 4 

ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

The experience of creative arts therapists through the ‘one

canvas’ model supervision and the connections to their

professional identity and work

Vika Lis-Ron

POSTER 5 

ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

Coping with homesickness: contact in art therapy

S.Eunice Morales Macias & Kerstin Schoch

POSTER 6 

MUSIC

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POSTER 7 

ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

When I go back to painting, I am ‘Alice in Wonderland’:

older women coping with age-related crises through visual

art-making

Neta Ram-Vlasov & Liat Shamri-Zeevi

POSTER 8 

ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

DBT-oriented art therapy group for adolescents in

intensive outpatient psychiatric care: finding paths for

resistance & hope

Sophia Pankenier

POSTER 9 

PLAY

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

Hearing the unspoken. Non-directive play therapy in the

process of supporting a child experiencing difficulties.

Anna Tuchowska-Chmura & Nina Ambroziak

POSTER 10 

MUSIC

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

Specific elements of music therapy in the treatment of

neuro-psychiatric symptoms in people with Alzheimer’s

disease: a PhD research proposal

Koert van Essen

POSTER 11 

ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

Project Tigar – concept of moveable sculpture as a

medium of inclusion of children with multiple disabilities

and war veterans

Margareta Vidmar and Dražen Viljušić

POSTER 12 

ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

Art therapeutic dimension of work with war trauma in the

light of Lacanian psychoanalysis

Klaudia Węc

POSTER 13 

DRAMA 

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

Embracing an entropic perspective – engaging in entropic

play for our wellbeing

Gideon Zehavi

POSTER 14 

DRAMA 

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat

Therapeutic theatre as a means of mediating relationships between clients of a therapeutic community for addiction treatment and residents of the surrounding area.

Kateřina Zachová

PANELS  14.00-15.15

PANEL 1 

MIXED

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A01.01

Educating Arts-therapists for Practice in a Time of Climate Crisis: Queries and Initiatives

Alida Gersie, Ditty Dokter, Alenka Vidrih, & Colin Black
(Chair: Adrienne McDermid-Thomas)

PANEL 2 

MIXED

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A03.01

BRUNDIBÁR: Metaphor as resistance to adversity. Longitudinal study of art therapy intervention with vulnerable children (2021-2024

Marián López Fernández Cao, Estíbaliz Gutierrez Ajamil, Tamara González Casado, Mónica Fontana, Ana Serrano Navarro & Celia Camilli Trujillo
(Chair: Uwe Herrman)

PANEL 3 

ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A01.03

Shades of uncertainty: How futureproof is arts therapies training?

Catherine Warner, Marius Den Otter, Vincenzo Puxeddu, Marc Willemsen & Marika Ratnik
(Chair: Carola van t Hof)

PANEL 4 

ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A01.04 

Redefining the pedagogical landscape: methodologies in art therapy research education

Dominik Havsteen-Franklin, Marián López Fdz. Cao,

Unnur Ottarsdottir, Mimmu Rankanen & Celine Schweizer
(Chair: Robert van den Broek)

PANEL 5

EDUCATION

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A01.05

The vicissitudes of professional recognition

Maria D'Elia, Richard Hougham, Johannes Junker, Rosa María & Rodríguez-Jiménez 
(Chair: Sarah Scoble)

PANEL 6 

MIXED

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A01.06

Deconstructing Dominant Narratives in Dance/movement therapy pedagogy: Critical consciousness in embodied education

Wendy Allen, Nancy Beardal, Meg Chang, Jennifer Wiles & Laura Wood
(Chair: Heidrun Panhofer)

PANEL 7 

MUSIC

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A01.07

From Resistance to Collaboration: Creating European Music Therapy Training Standards

Esa Ala-Ruona & Melanie Voigt
(Chair: Joy Gravestock)

PANEL 8 

MIXED

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A02.05

Participants as Artists: Co-Producing Creative Pathways to Care and Health Equity

Nisha Sajnani, Kunle Adewale, Maitri Gopalakrishna, Rainbow Ho & Phil Jones
(Chair: Judith Revers)

PANEL 9 

ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A02.04

Navigating complexity in art psychotherapy intervention development: where are we now and where do we need to go?

Simon Hackett, Nehama Grenimann Bauch, Suzanne Haeyen, Dominik Havsteen-Franklin, Nicki Power & Hans Wouters
(Chair: Harald Gruber)

PANEL 10 

MIXED

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat A03.03

INTERruption – Feminist practices in research and education

Kerstin Schoch & Judith Revers
(Chair: Di Gammage)

PANEL 11 

ART

Location: Brusselsepoortstraat 

Giving Voice to Child Sexual Abuse and IPV Survivors: A Glimpse into Survivors’ Drawings and Narratives


להשמיע את קולם של שורדי פגיעה מינית בילדות ושורדי ואלימות במסגרת היחסים הזוגית: הצצה אל ציורי וסיפורי הניצולים

Limor Goldner, Aiala Lypinski, Leibovich Inbal & Nihal Midhat Najmey
(Chair: Stavroulla Demetriou)

MASTERCLASS  16.30-17.30

MASTERCLASS

Location: Nimrod's Hall, Goudstraat

Voicing a Vision – Singing Truth to Power

Frankie Armstrong

PERFORMANCE  19.30

Stories of Maryam

Karima Anbar

Location: Nemrod's Hall, Goudstraat

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