Shifting to tele-creative arts therapies during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international study on helpful and challenging factors.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented shift to online treatment. For the creative arts therapies (CATs) - a healthcare profession that involves the intentional use of the visual art, drama, music, dance, and poetry within a therapeutic relationship - this shift has been highly consequential for practice. This study examined (a) how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted clinical practice in the CATs, and (b) the features characterizing online practice in an international sample of 1206 creative arts therapists aged 22-86 (92% female). It aimed to identify changes in the use of the arts in therapy, resources that contributed to the delivery of therapy, and the role of therapists' creative self-efficacy in adapting to these changes. Respondents completed close and open-ended question

SUBMITTER: Feniger-Schaal R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8860746 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature