Engaging Students and Families with STEM-based Expressive Therapy

ABSTRACT

This study contains an investigation of a new expressive therapeutic approach (STEM-based expressive therapy). An exploratory descriptive qualitative approach was utilized to explore how STEM-based activities provide a non-traditional expressive therapeutic approach to address children and family systems in school-based settings and professional development of Counselors-in-Training was explored. Findings indicated that there was increased family communication as a result of completing a STEM-based expressive therapy activity.

KEYWORDS:

• Expressive therapy
• stem
• school-based counseling
• family counseling
• counselors in training
• creativity in counseling