Body Mapping in a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program: Eliciting New Identity and Experience
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Arts-based approaches have not been widely used in the drug and alcohol treatment sector. In this study, we examined the utility of the arts-based method of Body Mapping in an Australian residential treatment centre. Two workshops were held to explore young people’s strengths and support networks in order to improve understandings of young people’s lives, identities and experiences of treatment. Semi-structured follow-up interviews were conducted and triangulated with observational notes and staff interviews. We identified four major themes: engaging through art; removing the mask; revealing strengths; and a sense of achievement. Overall, this study highlighted the value of Body Mapping as an approach to engage with young people, providing rich in-depth data about their lived experiences, including in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment context.
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Body mapping has been used as a therapeutic tool, an educational and advocacy strategy, and a means of coping in diverse populations.
“Body mapping, an art-based method, has been used as a therapeutic tool, an educational and advocacy strategy, and a means of coping in diverse populations [17–22].”
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The Introduction (page unavailable) describes body mapping as a therapeutic intervention used with varied vulnerable populations and traces its origins to a community outreach project intended to raise awareness and reduce stigma. That supports the therapeutic and educational or advocacy aspects, but our copy does not describe body mapping as a means of coping. The Discussion (page unavailable) also says this study did not formally evaluate therapeutic benefits. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Macken, S., Nathan, S., Jersky, M., Boydell, K. M., & Gibson, A.
- Affiliations
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- Sydney Children's Hospital (AU)
- Black Dog Institute (AU)
- Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
- Corresponding author
- Nathan, Sally
- Venue
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2021-05-06
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 4942
- ISSN
- 1660-4601 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8125476
- OpenAlex
- W3161747580
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 1.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Funders
- Australian Research Council Linkage Projects (LP140100429)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Conservation › Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Keywords
- body mapping, arts-based approaches, drug and alcohol treatment, youth, residential treatment, identity, lived experience, strengths-based approach, social support networks, engagement, sense of achievement, alcohol and other drug treatment
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Art Therapy, Australia, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Humans, Research Design
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