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Art Therapies Including Music Therapies

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The concept “arts therapies” includes the individual therapies of drama, art, music, dance, and poetry. “Expressive arts therapy”/“creative arts therapy” is an intermodal discipline whereby the therapist and client move freely between drawing, music making, writing, art creation, movement, and talking. Each form of therapy has unique properties and inherent differences. While expressive therapies, as a rule, include both nonverbal and verbal elements, focus on artistic activities gives clients opportunities to express themselves without words (Malchiodi 2005). This can be especially important for children having trouble using words to describe feelings, which is common for those under eight or nine, particularly if traumatized (Carey 2006).

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  1. Social Work, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Departments of Medicine and Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Clare O’Callaghan

  2. Faculty of Health, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway

    Trygve Aasgaard

  3. The Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, Norway

    Trygve Aasgaard

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    Alfred Längler

  2. The Cancer Team at Bellin Health, Commanche Avenue 1580, Green Bay, 54313, Wisconsin, USA

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  3. Dept. of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Dept. of Pediatric Hematol Oncol, Universitätsklinikum Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin, 13353, Berlin, Germany

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O’Callaghan, C., Aasgaard, T. (2012). Art Therapies Including Music Therapies. In: Längler, A., Mansky, P., Seifert, G. (eds) Integrative Pediatric Oncology. Pediatric Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04201-0_5

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