There has in recent years been a big development in art therapy. It has been confined mostly to painting and modelling but reports are published of experiments in helping the mentally unbalanced also through music, dancing, speech, drama and mime. The emphasis in these forms is usually upon the act of artistic creation. To put the principle in the simplest most general form, it is that by getti...

The graduate program in art therapy trains highly skilled therapists whose professional practice is grounded in a broad understanding of current clinical art therapy, counseling, and trauma theories. Students are taught the application of effective research and evaluation methodologies, clinical skills, and studio expertise, within a diverse, integrative, and culturallyresponsive format. The pr...

BACKGROUND expressive language of pre-term children. AIM to compare the expressive vocabulary of two year-old children born prematurely, to that of those born at term. METHODS the study sample was composed by 118 speech-language assessment protocols, divided in two groups: the pre-term group (PTG) composed by 58 underweight premature children followed by a multi-professional team at the Cas...

LAY SUMMARY Military personnel and Veterans receiving psychotherapy for mental health diagnoses such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often have only modest symptom improvement. The authors wondered whether participating in a therapeutic recreation creative arts group along with would aid recovery. A 12-week program called the my Social life, Expression, Leisure Food (mySELF) was created...

Women with breast cancer are naturally exposed to strain related to diagnosis and treatment, and this influences their experienced quality of life (QoL). The present paper reports the effect, with regard to QoL aspects, of an art therapy intervention among 41 women undergoing radiotherapy treatment for breast cancer. The women were randomized to an intervention group with individual art therapy...

background lack of control on irritation among prisoners afflicted with ptsd is a common symptom. objectives this research studied the effectiveness of a therapy group with a cognitive behavioral approach to decrease aggressiveness. materials and methods this research was semi-empirical and the research plan was pre-test/post-test with a control group. the statistical community of this research...

ôbjective: ône of non-confrontative methods for treatment of difficult issues such as grief is movie therapy which is an advanced form of bibliotherapy. the present study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of group movie therapy (gmt) on reduction of intensity of grief experience in bereaved adolescent girls. methods: this was a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest and a follow up...