Welcome to Volume 13, Issue 1 of the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health (JCMH). JCMH is the official journal for the Association for Creativity in Counseling (ACC). This journal is designed to bring our readership cutting-edge scholarship that promotes growth-fostering relationships and enhances relational development within a diverse society. ACC was established for professionals and students interested in creative and complementary approaches to counseling practice and counselor education.
Authors represent the diverse mental health disciplines of counseling, psychology, expressive therapies, psychiatry, and social work. JCMH is particularly interested in receiving submissions that discuss creative ways to facilitate growth-fostering connections and relational development. JCMH also encourages further understanding of diversity in professional practice. These interventions may include music, literature, theatre, drama, art, dance, energy psychologies, and other complementary and alternative therapies.
The following articles are included in this issue, offering a wide variety of innovative topics: “Girls’ Perspectives of Barriers to Outdoor Physical Activity through Photovoice: A Call for Counselor Advocacy,” “Adventures in Supervision: Implications for Supervision of Adventure Based Counseling,” “Multiplicity Within and Between: Addressing Multiple Roles Through Role Profiles in Couples,” and “The Science and Art of Integrating Psychodrama and Bernard’s Discrimination Model.”
The Creating Space for Connection: Creative Interventions in Counseling column features activities for clinical practice: “Leveling Up Your Game: The Use of Video Games as a Therapeutic Modality,” and “Intermodal Expressive Arts in Group Supervision.”
The Creating Space for Connection: Creativity in the Classroom column features “Embodied Self-Care: Enhancing Awareness and Acceptance Through Mindfulness-Oriented Expressive Writing Self-Disclosure,” “Use of Photovoice in Processing Race-Based Topics in a Multicultural Counseling Course,” “Creative Interventions for Teaching Empathy in the Counseling Classroom,” and “Self–Compassion as Self-Care: A Simple and Effective Tool for Counselor Educators and Counseling Students.”
It is my hope that you find this issue enlightening and helpful to your work.