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Dance/Movement Therapy Q and A

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

  By former ITA Dance/Movement Therapist Deanna Roberts Q: What is Dance/movement therapy (DMT)? A: The American Dance Therapy Association defines DMT as the following: “Dance/movement therapy is the psychotherapeutic […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: adhd, ADTA, American Dance Therapy Association, autism, counseling, dance movement therapy, DMT, health, holistic, impairment, information, mood disorder, movement, psychotherapy, spatial, therapy

ITA Celebrates the Publication of the Music Therapy Social Skills Assessment Manual

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

  Written by MTSSA author, Jeffrey Wolfe, MT-BC ITA is extremely thrilled to announce the publication of the Music Therapy Social Skills Assessment Manual (MTSSA), a comprehensive handbook for assessing […]

Filed Under: Publications, Resources Tagged With: Affect Scale, assessment, children, classroom, Engagement Scale, group music therapy, handbook, IDEA, implementation, Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, jeffrey wolfe, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, MTSSA, Music Therapy Social Skills Assessment Manual, neurodevelopmental disorder, prompting, social competence, Social Interaction Scale, social skill development

Make the Most of Your Apps at Home

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

  By Rebecca West, MM, MT-BC With over 900,000 Apple apps, 1 million Android apps, and over 50,000 Window apps, responses like “there’s an app for that” can seem a […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Apple, Apps, rebecca west, skills, suggested apps, therapy, therapy goals

Powerful Play: A Parent’s Perspective on the Natural Language of Children

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

  By Amber Bond This month Americans celebrated Mothers and motherhood, so for the newsletter feature, our team asked me to write a story from the perspective of a parent. […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: children, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, music, parent, parenting, play, playful mindset, pretend, stories, zone of childhood

A Creative Arts Therapy Perspective on Autism

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

  By Jenni Rook, MT-BC, LCPC As a human race, we place a great deal of emphasis on social connection. Who are you linked to? How many “friends” do you […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: autism, Autism Awareness month, communication, creative arts therapy, expression, jenni rook, self-expression, social contact, social isolation, social relationships, Temple Grandin

A Recap of the Neurologic Music Therapy-Fellowship Training

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

  By Jeffrey Wolfe, MT-BC This past month I had the great opportunity to attend the Neurologic Music Therapy Fellowship Training, at the Center for Biomedical Research in Music at […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: board-certified, brain plasticity, Center for Biomedical Research in Music, CNM, Colorado State University, EFNS, entrainment, European Federation of Neurorehabilition Societies, International Society for Clinical Neuromusicology, jeffrey wolfe, Michael Thaut, music perception, music therapist, Neurologic Music Therapist-Fellow, Neurologic Music Therapy, Neurologic Music Therapy Fellowship Training, NMT, NMT-F, transformational design model, WNFR, World Federation of Neurologic Rehabilitation

The Steel Drum Story

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

 How Cultural Heritage Survives and Thrives through the Arts By Jeff Wolfe, MT-BC, and Keith Whipple, MA, RDT African Diaspora began as the voluntary and involuntary migration of peoples out […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Africa, African Diaspora, cultural heritage, culture, drumming, jeffrey wolfe, Julio Cesar Montano Montenegro, keith whipple, Steel Band Orchestras, Steel Drum, Steel Pan, tradition, Trinidad and Tobago, Winston "Spree" Simon

The 7 Hobbits of Highly Effective People

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

By Keith Whipple, MA, RDT _____________________________________________________________________ My work as a drama therapist involves frequent travel through lands of the imagination.  Like the heroes of Middle Earth, the clients I work […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: drama therapy, experience, fictional characters, Hobbits, imagination, J.R.R. Tolkien, keith whipple, Stephen Covey, storytelling, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Dealing with the Darker Aspects of Halloween

August 18, 2015 by ITA Staff

By Keith Whipple, MA, RDT As a drama therapist, I hear a lot of stories. This time of year many of those stories can include dark, violent, solitary and monstrous […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: costumes, decorations, Denyse Beaudet, drama therapy, fear, fears, Halloween, Harry Potter, imaginative play, J.K. Rowling, keith whipple, reassurance, safe, stories, understanding

Anxiety Disorders

August 17, 2015 by ITAChicago

Definitions of Anxiety Disorders From the DSM-5: Anxiety disorders includes disorders that share features of excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioral disturbances. Fear is the emotional response to real […]

Filed Under: Glossary Tagged With: agoraphobia, anxiety, anxiety disorders, DSM-5, fear, GAD, generalized anxiety disorder, mr hobman, panic disorder, selective mutism, separation anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, social phobia, specific phobias

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