Arts & Neuroscience

Military and Veterans Affairs

Cross-Cutting

Symposium

(603420) A Research Overview of Creative Forces Creative Arts Therapies Programming for Military Populations

Presenter(s)

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  Rebecca Vaudreuil, EdM, MT-BC

  Music Therapy Lead
  Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network
  Colorado Springs, Colorado
• HB

  Hannah Bronson, MT-BC

  Music Therapist
  Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network
  Austin, Texas
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  Liz Freeman, MA, R-DMT

  Dance/Movement Therapist
  Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network
  Washington, District of Columbia
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  Brenda Maltz

The information disseminated in this presentation reviews: (1) Trends in military health care systems that offer creative arts therapies as a rehabilitative services delivered by credentialed professionals; (2) Current research findings of creative arts therapies interventions and standardized protocols with service members and veterans at Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network sites; (3) New research areas relevant to creative arts therapies in support of service member and veteran rehabilitation informed by clinical implementation across the U.S.; (4) Experiential examples of creative arts therapies interventions as cited in published research with military populations will be introduced, explained, and demonstrated.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the scope and purpose of creative arts therapies targeted interventions with military populations.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the development, clinical implementation, and data collection of creative arts therapies clinical protocols.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the intersection of creative arts therapies and traditional disciplines in an interdisciplinary rehabilitation model including consultation and co-treatment opportunities through real-time experiential examples across multiple treatment domains.
• Interpret impact and outcomes of creative arts therapies with military and veterans populations through a review of retrospective analyses, current prospective research topics, and future areas of interest and investigation.