OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Arts in Psychotherapy is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of puppetry in mental health promotion: A scoping review of its efficacy and applications	28
Increased functional connectivity in military service members presenting a psychological closure and healing theme in art therapy masks	26
The influence of art material and instruction during art making on brain activity: A quantitative electroencephalogram study	22
Associations Between Form, Content and Narrative in Person Picking an Apple from a Tree Drawings of Preschool Children	21
Guidelines for art-based interventions in parental training	18
Intersectional care ethics in art therapy organizations	16
Evaluating a continuing professional development course on cognitive functions for Music Therapists working in care homes	16
Acknowledgement to Reviewers	13
Art therapy for chemsex: A pilot study of representations of memories among this subset of self-identified gay men as expressed in gouache painting	13
Music in the moment: The use of a musical intervention to impact state experiences	12
“Some small worm is chewing my stomach”: Chronic pain in movement and narratives, a cross-sectional study	12
“A springboard back to life”: The voices of people with mental health conditions on the process and outcomes of a pre-academic arts program	12
Breast cancer surgery as expressed in self figure drawings	11
Reliability and short version of the Dunphy Outcomes Framework (DOF): Integrating the art and science of dance movement therapy	11
Flowing towards freedom with multimodal creative therapy: The healing power of therapeutic arts for ex cult-members	11
Practicing in an expanded paradigm: Case examples and ethical anchors for creative arts therapists working in community-based social justice contexts	11
“It just gives people hope”: A qualitative inquiry into the lived experience of the Harry Potter world in mental health recovery	10
Expressive arts therapy: A profession in a “wild zone”	10
Editorial Board	9
Aesthetic mutuality: A mechanism of change in the creative arts therapies as applied to dance/movement therapy	9
The effects of sandplay therapy on the limbic system and prefrontal cortex in women with generalized anxiety disorder	9
Outcomes and experiences of an online Balance-Space music therapy intervention for cancer patients: A mixed methods study	9
“Can I really be authentic?” A co-created critical autoethnography on whiteness in dance/movement therapy education	9
Relationship between the therapeutic alliance, clients' reactions to artistic work and outcomes of arts therapies with ultra-orthodox 4–15 year olds	8
Do children’s family drawings reflect adaptation in early years of elementary school?	8

The art of mentalizing: A mentalization-based art initiative with homeless people within a psychologically informed environment	8
Child-focused outcome and process evaluation of a school-based art therapy intervention: A pilot randomised controlled study	8
Problem-solving expressions in preschool children’s "Person Picking an Apple from a Tree" drawings and verbal narratives	8
The use of music therapy to address psychosocial needs of informal caregivers: An integrative review	7
Companioning artmaking: Creating art alongside clients in group art therapy	7
Promoting kindergarten readiness using early intervention art therapy with Latinx farmworker children	7
Psychological symptoms and the use of shadow miniatures in sandplay therapy	7
Assessing dance movement therapy in Chinese undergraduates with depression and anxiety: An initial randomized controlled trial	7
Playback Theatre: Group, stories, and stage as elements of change	7
Modified amusement park technique with a SUD population in a residential setting	7
Beneficial and harmful music for substance use disorder clients: Implementation of the musical presentation technique	7
Editorial Board	7
The experience of school-based dramatherapists: Understanding the barriers and facilitators of UK school-based dramatherapy to inform better implementation	7
A mixed methods exploration of a pilot photo-reflection intervention for enhancing coping and well-being during COVID-19	7
Process evaluation of an art therapeutic treatment for children and adolescents with psychosocial problems	6
Logotherapy, existential analysis, music therapy: Theory and practice of meaning-oriented music therapy	6
Mentalization and drama therapy	6
Clarifying the Creative level of the Expressive Therapies Continuum: A different dimension	6
Music in the practice of dance/movement therapy	6
A proposed Critical Theory of Music Vilification to explain “problem music”	5
Editorial Board	5
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows”: Art therapists' perspectives on dealing with secrets in therapy	5
Psychodrama oriented group therapy for forgiveness in university students	5
Shifting Ethics of Care in Hong Kong	5
Emerging wisdom through a traditional bon dance in group dance/movement therapy: A single case study of dementia	5
Music therapy and anhedonia: A case study	5
Therapist perceived active ingredients of school-based dramatherapy for children and young people with emotional distress	5
Arts Psychotherapies for Adolescents with Mental Health Difficulties: A Systematic Review and Logic Model of Mechanisms of Action and Outcomes	5
Proposing a justice approach to Ethics of Care in art psychotherapy	5
Regulatory effect of drawing on negative emotion: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	5
A mixed-methods study on psychodrama treatment for PTSD and depression in inpatient substance use treatment: A comparison of outcomes pre-pandemic and during Covid-19	5
Art therapy in mitigating pervasive loss and grief within correctional settings	5
Cooking therapy in the creative arts therapy theoretical context: Conceptual validation and practical guidelines	5
Reducing the burden of care: Effect of art and dance therapy on Parkinson’s disease patients’ caregivers	5
Effectiveness of art therapy for people with eating disorders: A mixed methods systematic review	5
A year later: The pain protocol study findings and memory reconsolidation factors	5
The mother-adolescent daughter relationship as embodied in joint dancing	5
Analysis of the body of literature based on a new drama therapy literature database	4
Art-based emotion regulation in major depression: Framework for intervention	4
Editorial Board	4
Joint music sessions, parents, and their lesbian and gay young adult children: Effectiveness on the ‘coming out’ process, relationships, and wellbeing	4
Art therapy for children following adverse childhood experiences: An intervention development study	4
South Korean art therapists’ roundtable discussion on racism and ethnic discrimination: An arts-based inquiry	4
Trends in dance/movement therapy research: A bibliometric analysis of publications in the scopus bibliographic and citation information database	4
Effects of music therapy on the subjective well-being of women with fibromyalgia: A quasi-experimental study	4
Arts-based supervision training for creative arts therapists: Perceptions and implications	4
Joint drawings as a tool for observing couple relationships: Development of the, Couples’ Closeness-Distance Scale (CCDS)	4
Art therapy as a treatment for adults with learning disabilities who are experiencing mental distress: A configurative systematic review with narrative synthesis	4
Korean dance/movement therapists’ clinical experiences working with individuals with developmental disabilities: Phenomenological study	4
Editorial Board	4

Creating an art therapy research strategic plan: A community participatory approach	4
A single case study of art therapy in a child with Crohn’s disease	4
Body-speak: Poetic intervention for adult survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) – An autoethnographic approach	4
Analysis of the type of imagery and imagery themes from Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) sessions with adults in chemical dependency treatment	4
Exploring Art Hives: Implications of virtual art studio communities on positive and negative affect	4
Integrating the embodiment-projection-role paradigm to develop and implement a two-hour-workshop for stress management among nurses	4
The Spiritual Experience of Sufi Whirling Dervishes: Rising Above the Separation and Duality of This World	4
Committing to arts-based palliative and bereavement care: Evaluation of students’ experiences in an online course	4
Playback Theatre applications: A systematic review of literature	4
“Time for Tony the Turtle”: Experiences with the use of a hand puppet in a program for young children in domestic violence shelters	4
Anti-oppressive pedagogy in dance/movement therapy education: Embodied experiences of black, indigenous, and students of color	3
Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Revised Spontaneity Assessment Inventory (SAI-R-C)	3
The impact of group art therapy in post-acute cancer care: A longitudinal qualitative study	3
Explanatory sequential descriptive analysis of music therapists’ clinical practice for individuals with eating disorders	3
Feasibility of the Musical Contour Regulation Facilitation (MCRF) intervention to promote emotion regulation for under-resourced preschoolers: Examining intervention intensity	3
Holding environment, mirroring, and transitional object: Their roles in a writing group for adults with major mental illness	3
Investigating dramatherapists' experiences of adult clients' stigma in relation to their mental health difficulties	3
What makes us the same? What makes us different? Development of a shared model and manual of group therapy practice across art therapy, dance movement therapy and music therapy within community mental	3
The kinetic family in action: An intermodal assessment model	3
Power to move through: A heuristic self-inquiry of dance movement processing within guided imagery and music	3
Acknowledgement to Reviewers	3
Editorial Board	3
Decolonizing internal and external borders: Reflections on therapeutic engagements with asylum seekers	3
Commentary: Troubling care	3
Dance movement therapy for Black womxn: A content analysis	3
Vision, concretism, repetitism. Typical artistic design features in drawings of adults with autism and intellectual disability	3
A pilot study of arts therapy techniques to evoke emotional states in forensic patients	3
The expressive therapies continuum and mentalization-based art therapy for individuals diagnosed with a cluster B/C personality disorder: A successful marriage!	3
Visual Journaling using Art Therapy with Refugees	3
The effects of psychodrama on the emotional awareness and communication skills of psychiatric nurses: A randomized controlled trial	3
Orthodox Jewish adults with learning disabilities: Inclusive versus special education classroom experiences	3
Critical pedagogy in the undergraduate music therapy curriculum: A grounded theory study of music therapy educators	3
A study on creative arts therapists’ human rights sensitivity	3
Grieving artists: Influences of loss and bereavement on visual art making	3
Editorial Board	3
Effectiveness of group art therapy for mothers of children with disabilities	3
Family members’ and other experts’ perceptions of music therapy with children on the autism spectrum in New Zealand: Findings from multiple case studies	3
Identity development of Arab drama therapists: The role of ethnic boundary work	3