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Expressive and Creative Arts Therapies

Psychotherapies that use a creative, artistic or experiential medium, rather than talk alone, as the primary therapeutic activity. This includes the core creative-arts modalities (art therapy, music therapy, dance movement therapy, drama therapy, psychodrama, play therapy), literary and media-based approaches (bibliotherapy, cinema therapy, hip-hop therapy, superhero therapy), animal and nature-based experiential therapies (animal-assisted therapy, equine-assisted therapy, wilderness therapy), and the broader expressive-therapies umbrella term itself along with chess therapy, a game-based expressive modality. A therapy that only occasionally uses a creative exercise within an otherwise cognitive, behavioral or psychodynamic framework is grouped under that framework instead.

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Modality KindSourced to the subject's own account
psychotherapy-behavioral 1
InvasivenessSourced to the subject's own account
non-invasive 1
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1. Art Therapy (Wikipedia)
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Art therapy is a distinct discipline that incorporates creative methods of expression through visual art media.
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