Integrating the Arts in Therapy: Learning from the Pioneers
by Sharon Chaiklin & Eliana Gil & Peggy Heller & Eleanor C. Irwin & Clive Robbins & Judith Aron Rubin
This film documents over 6 hours of a weekend-long conference called “Integrating the Arts in Therapy: Art, Music, Dance, Drama, Poetry, Play,” held July 2009 in Alexandria, Virginia.
Moderated by Barry Cohen, speakers and topics include:
  • “Clinical Musicianship: An Improvisational Approach to Music Therapy” Clive Robbins, DMM, MT-BC (Music Therapy)
  • “Snoopy Said It: To Dance Is To Live” Sharon Chaiklin, ADTR (Dance Therapy)
  • “Didn’t Your Mother Ever Tell You Not to Play with Words?” Peggy Heller, PhD, LCSW/C, PTR (Poetry Therapy)
  • “How Does Drama Therapy Heal? Deconstructing the Process” Eleanor C. Irwin, PhD, RDT, TEP (Drama Therapy)
  • “Ignorance as Blessing: Floundering, Failing, and Finding My Way” Judith A. Rubin, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM (Art Therapy)
  • “Everything You Ever Wanted To Ask the Pioneers” Institute Faculty listed above, including Eliana Gil, PhD, ATR, RPT-S, MFCC, Play Therapist
These small, in-depth, master workshops were designed for practicing clinicians, educators, students, and others interested in expanding their knowledge of the expressive arts in healing.
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Moderated by Barry Cohen, speakers and topics include:
  • “Clinical Musicianship: An Improvisational Approach to Music Therapy” Clive Robbins, DMM, MT-BC (Music Therapy)
  • “Snoopy Said It: To Dance Is To Live” Sharon Chaiklin, ADTR (Dance Therapy)
  • “Didn’t Your Mother Ever Tell You Not to Play with Words?” Peggy Heller, PhD, LCSW/C, PTR (Poetry Therapy)
  • “How Does Drama Therapy Heal? Deconstructing the Process” Eleanor C. Irwin, PhD, RDT, TEP (Drama Therapy)
  • “Ignorance as Blessing: Floundering, Failing, and Finding My Way” Judith A. Rubin, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM (Art Therapy)
  • “Everything You Ever Wanted To Ask the Pioneers” Institute Faculty listed above, including Eliana Gil, PhD, ATR, RPT-S, MFCC, Play Therapist
These small, in-depth, master workshops were designed for practicing clinicians, educators, students, and others interested in expanding their knowledge of the expressive arts in healing.

This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc.

Length of video: 6:37:00

English subtitles available

Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-650-1

Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-650-9

Eliana Gil, Ph.D., RPT-S, ATR is a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, Registered Art Therapist and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist best known for her groundbreaking clinical work and research with children, teens and families impacted by trauma and abuse. As founder and senior clinical consultant of the Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education in Fairfax, Virginia, she continues a lifelong commitment to therapy, training, consultation and education in the areas of play therapy, post-traumatic play, family therapy and relational treatments including Circle of Security, Theraplay and Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model. Widely published in the areas of Play, Art and Family Therapy for both the professional and lay audience, Dr. Gil is best known for her research and writing on trauma. Her most recent book is Post-Traumatic Play: What Clinicians Should Know (2017, Guilford Press).

Judith Rubin, a pioneer in the field of art therapy, is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She is a Registered, Board-Certified Art Therapist and a Licensed Psychologist. Dr. Rubin is the author of five books, including: Child Art Therapy, The Art of Art Therapy, and Art Therapy: An Introduction. She was the "Art Lady" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in the 1960s.

A past President and Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, Dr. Rubin is retired from full-time clinical practice, and is devoting her energies to creating and disseminating films on the arts in therapy through a nonprofit organization, Expressive Media, Inc. Her other films include Beyond Words: Art Therapy with Older Adults (2004), We'll Show You What We're Gonna Do! (art with blind children, 1971), Children & the Arts (all of the arts with children, 1973), and The Green Creature Within (group art-drama therapy with adolescents, 1984). More about Judith Rubin's films and the organization can be found at http://www.expressivemedia.org.

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