Terms and references
Some pages on our website reference professional frameworks, therapeutic approaches, or technical terms used in mental health and creative arts practice.
This page provides short explanations of those terms and links to relevant professional standards or source materials.
Key terms
Mulitmodal
Using more than one mode of expression (for example image-making, words, gesture, movement, sound, and sensory attention) to explore lived, embodied experience. Different modalities can support different kinds of meaning-making, and sometimes one mode helps express what isn’t easily accessed through words alone.
Professional standards and references
Mulitmodal
Using more than one mode of expression (for example image-making, words, gesture, movement, sound, and sensory attention) to explore lived, embodied experience. Different modalities can support different kinds of meaning-making, and sometimes one mode helps express what isn’t easily accessed through words alone.