ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the use of arts-based interventions with children and adolescents who are displaced due to war and armed conflict, including an overview of the literature around the potential of creative interventions for resiliency in post-conflict settings, as well as capacity-building efforts to ensure sustainable practice and cultural and ethical implications of this work. Further, this chapter presents two case vignettes to illustrate practices of art therapists who have worked in the field with efforts to build capacity in community settings and direct intervention through creating an art therapy program. This chapter argues that arts-based interventions should be informed and supported by local capacity, ethical considerations, and cultural norms in order to provide sustainable practice that addresses post-conflict and displacement stressors in children.
