The first film, “The Healing Arts” from the series “The Doctor Is In,” documents a range of arts interventions for healthcare settings including music, dance, art, drumming, child life, play, humor, drama and multimodal approaches. Vignettes representing a range of settings and populations such as physical illness, cognitive deficits, disabilities and accidents and burn units are provided.

The second film, “Medical Art Therapy,” documents the work of Irene Rosner David, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM, at Bellevue Hospital.

Other short films include:

• “Early Art Therapy in Hospitals for Children: Burn Unit” featuring art therapist Pat Levinson
• “National Jewish Health: Childhood Asthma” featuring art therapists Robin Gabriel and Tisha Adams
• “Tracy’s Kids: Art Therapy for Children with Cancer” featuring art therapist Tracy Councill
• and “Dance Movement Therapy for Breast Cancer” featuring dance therapist Ilene Serlin.

These beautiful vignettes of clients engaged in creative activity with therapists provides evidence for the healing qualities of the expressive arts therapies with medical patients.