Creative Arts Therapies Approaches in Adoption and Foster Care: Contemporary Strategies for Working With Individuals and Families

Victoria Bryan: STOP-GAP Co-Founder Sherry Diamond, M.A., RDT: President-Elect of the Board of Directors for the National Association for Drama Therapy; Expansion Project Director/Program Director for Acacia Adult Day Services in Garden Grove, California; drama therapist for more than 15 years; and freelance writer Mimi Farrelly-Hansen, M.A., ATR, LPC: Founder, former director and current adjunct faculty of the graduate art therapy program at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado; clinician for 20 years, work focused largely on abused children; more recent interests include couples, groups, feminine spirituality, ecopsychology, and transcultural/transracial adoption issues Deborah Good, Ph.D., ATR-BD, LPAT, LPCC: Private practice, Albuquerque, New Mexico; AATA Past-Presiden Steve Harvey, Ph.D., ADTR, RPT-S, RDT: U.S. Naval Hospital, Sigonella, Italy. Lisa D. Hinz, Ph.D., ATR: Private practice, Pasadena, California; adjunct faculty member, Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College, Master of Arts Therapy Program, Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana Allison Hurwitz, M.A., ATR: New York University graduate; art therapist at Kennedy Child Study Center, Bronx, New York; private practice; facilitator of creative arts therapy workshops at various social service agencies in New York City; advisory board member of Fresh Art, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping artists with special needs since 1998 David L. Hussey, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies, Kent State University; Faculty Associate, Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Kent State University; Director of Research and Evaluation, Beech Brook Donna Kaiser, M.S., LPC, LMFT, ATR-BC: Doctoral candidate in Counselor Education, William and Mary, completing dissertation research on the experiences of novice family counselors during internship training; art therapist and family therapist at William J. Farley Center, an international addictions treatment facility for impaired health professionals, Williamsburg, Virginia Fionnula Kenny, M.A.: STOP-GAP Artistic Director Don R. Laffoon, M.A., RDT/BCT: STOP-GAP Cofounder and Executive Director Melany Lawlor, M.A.: Artist and art therapist, works with transcultural/transracially adopted children; has worked with children in residential treatment and conducted home-based therapy with families in crisis; graduate of the Art Therapy program, Naropa University Deborah Layman, M.M., MT-BC: Beech Brook, Cleveland, Ohio Yun Jung Lee, M.A.: Member of AATA and Delaware Valley Art Therapy Association Wendy Miller, Ph.D., ATR, REAT, LPC: Member of AATA; member of International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA); cofounder and practicing clinician, Create Therapy Institute; founding member and Past Executive Cochair of International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA); associate of Sandplay Therapists of America (STA); licensed member of DC Mental Health Counselors Association (DCMHCA); member of Potomac Art Therapy Association; adjunct faculty at California Institute of Integral Studies Stacey Murray-Park, M.A.: Kansas State University, Theatre with specialization in Drama Therapy; National Association of Drama Therapy, student member Joan Phillips, M.A., M.S., LMFT, LPC, ATR-BC: University of Oklahoma; private practice. Mary Reher, MTA, FAMI: Accredited member, Canadian Association for Music Therapy; fellow/member, Association for Music and Imagery; member, Music Therapy Association of British Columbia Shanee Stepakoff, Ph.D., RPT, LCP: A licensed clinical psychologist and registered poetry therapist. She is on the staff of the Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and serves as Biblo/Poetry Therapy Consultant for the Boston Institute for Arts Therapy. She is an adjunct faculty member in the graduate program in expressive therapies at Lesley University, and maintains a private practice Elizabeth Warson, M.A., ATR-BC, LPC: Doctoral student at Colorado State University; private practice; contract with the Colorado Department of Youth Corrections; graduate of Vermont College; AATA Chair of the Committee on Professional Practice, 2002; president of ATAC; exhibiting artistDonna J. Betts is the author of 'Creative Arts Therapies Approaches in Adoption and Foster Care: Contemporary Strategies for Working With Individuals and Families', published 2003 under ISBN 9780398073886 and ISBN 0398073880.