there are limited documents about hiv patients switched to second-line antiretroviral therapy (art) in resource-limited countries. we aimed to assess the efficacy of second-line art for hiv patients following first-line art failure. this was a cohort study of hiv/aids patients with first-line art treatment failure switched to second-line art between january 2004 and march 2014, who followed for...

Social anxiety disorder is a debilitating condition plaguing 3-7% of individuals today (Lampe, 2005). Despite the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating this condition, only 19% of social anxiety sufferers seem to seek out treatment (Lampe, 2005). Art therapy is a new form of treatment that provides a method of using art to help patients express their feelings. This form of t...

The primary purpose of this study was to gather information in order to understand if and how various modalities of personal therapy are employed with undergraduate music therapy students in the United States. AMTA degree program coordinators were asked about 3 therapy modalities, in particular: verbal therapy, music therapy, and expressive arts therapy (excluding music therapy). It was predict...

OBJECTIVE The role of music therapy in psychiatric care in Australia is briefly traced from the early 1990s to the present. With the shift to community-based care, contemporary music therapy practice for the severely mentally ill is reappraised alongside the principles of the recovery model. CONCLUSIONS Music therapy is a viable option within the creative arts therapies for enhancing quality ...

Art therapy is a form of therapeutic practice that uses art in order to relax and cure the symptoms of depression. In this paper, researchers propose an artificial art therapy recommendation system based on an expert system to provide the customized art therapy for the individual patient. Facts and rules about the unique abstract art painting techniques of Jackson Pollock’s art therapy are coll...

On Armistice Day 2011, BBC2 broadcast a Culture Show special, entitled ‘Art for Heroes’, about art therapy with veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It involved the filming of an art therapy group at a Surrey treatment centre for veterans. This article is based on the transcript of that group and takes a thematic analysis approach towards understanding the benefits of art th...