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Every week for two years during the early 1980s, a group of adolescents met at the Pittsburgh Child Guidance Center to participate in an expressive arts therapy program. To meet their different needs, a wide variety of materials was made available, with the hope that at least one of the creative modalities would enable the young people to overcome what one called "that green creature within." This program uses footage from the sessions to demonstrate...
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It's natural for children to engage in creative activities, and when their enjoyment is therapeutically guided, an even greater sense of mastery and well-being quite often results. This program shows activities in multiple modalities - music, dance, art, and drama - in a creative arts therapy program for youngsters at risk for developing emotional problems. Examples taken from each of the modalities depict how directed creativity can help channel...
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Would you like me to look at it with my eyes or with my hands? asks art therapist Susan Aach, addressing a visually impaired girl who has just completed a richly textured drawing. Aach's question embodies one of the central ideas behind a pilot program conducted in 1972 at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind and documented in this video. In essence, the program's young participants learn to see with their hands-or perhaps it's more accurate...
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"Bedlam is a crackling, satirical debut based on a horrifying true story about what happens when an asylum owner becomes a patient. Bedlam details the frustrating life of Earl Sedgwick, owner and operator of a mental institute. Earl grew up in the business and subsequently took it over despite his avowed hatred of how the business robbed him of his childhood. He runs on empty until he's triggered by a visit from his more successful friends, realizing...
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Several leaders from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), the Mental Health Program of the Indian Health Service and the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) joined with others in organizing the first national conference on Native American people with serious mental illness, in order to bring together State, tribal and IHS mental health officials, providers,...
54) Blind spot
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When FBI agent Declan Grey's investigation of a terrorist cell leads him to an insular immigrant community, he turns to crisis counselor Tanner Shaw for help in stopping a deadly plot.
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"In times more uncertain than ever before, Dear William answers the call for increased attention to individual and family substance use and mental health. His is a message that students and parents throughout the world need to hear. And as a creator of the national William Magee Institute for Student Wellbeing at the University of Mississippi, David Magee is on a mission to find and share solutions to one of America's biggest problems that touches...