Section 1. Introduction. Chapter 1. Music, the arts, and healing -- Section 2. Creating safe spaces. Chapter 2. Healing: use the power of your voice through your stories ; Chapter 3. Healing our heroes: creating an arts-based intervention ; Chapter 4. Butterfly, emerging: how trauma-informed services help survivors to heal ; Chapter 5. Learning together: intergenerational experiences for pre-service art educators -- Section 3. Learning adaptive responses. Chapter 6. The magic of monologue: healing depression through drama ; Chapter 7. Embroidery, resilience, and discovery: embroidery as healing in the Guajira Peninsula ; Chapter 8. Narratives of writing as healing ; Chapter 9. Storytelling through dance and movement -- Section 4. Mastery and self-regulation. Chapter 10. Healing together: the Lid Project ; Chapter 11. Story dances: identity and power in the dance classroom ; Chapter 12. Collaborative art and relationships ; Chapter 13. Community music therapy partnering with community musicians: orchestral dialogues accepting self, accepting others -- Section 5. Arts-based post-traumatic growth assessments. Chapter 14. A creative approach to assessment: applications in youth spiritual development ; Chapter 15. Beyond words: arts-based assessment of post-traumatic growth.