The History of Trauma Treatment Intervention and the Movement Into Creative Arts Therapy

Abstract

This chapter focuses on how trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder impact children, adolescents, and adults. It explores the history of trauma treatment as well as the benefits of creative arts therapy as a trauma treatment intervention. Creative arts therapy is crucial in the psychological realm, as it uses the building blocks of evidence-based practices to transform the narrative around healing the brain and body. Within the chapter, trauma and PTSD are explained, along with the history of trauma therapy, the history of creative art therapy around the world, and the rise of creative arts therapy in the United States.