Background: Social distance, which is linked with negative emotional impacts, is one strategy to avoid coronary heart disease, particularly for single parents and their children. The purpose of this research was to see how helpful filial therapy and cognitive-behavioral art-play therapy are for single mothers' emotional perspectives. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted with three...

Art therapy has been used in inpatient hospital groups (Azima, et al. 1957; Dougherty, 1974; Patch & Refsnes, 1968; Sinrod, 1964) standard therapy groups, and college counseling programs (Baruch & Miller, 1951; Darley, et al., 1952; Denny & Fagan, 1970; Potts, 1956; Seeman, 1968; Wolff, 1975.) However, to our knowledge, there have been no reports of art therapy groups used as the basic treatmen...

The psychological impact of child sexual abuse has been widely researched. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a group art therapy intervention designed by the authors aimed at reducing depression, anxiety, sexual trauma and low self-esteem among 25 sexually abused girls aged 8–11 years. The programme was based on existential-humanistic, Gestalt, client-centred and abusefocused principles...

Background: One of the therapies that can be given to overcome anxiety in drug users is expressive writing therapy, which an activity with deepest and most emotional ideas feelings without being concerned research procedures such as spelling, grammar, or other conventions. The purpose this study was determine effect therapy on users. Methods: design used pre-experimental a one-group pretest-pos...

This pilot study aimed at assessing the feasibility of capturing physiological evidence of reduced stress for hospitalized children following expressive arts therapy. Twenty-five patients were offered a novel form of expressive arts therapy, termed Healing Sock Creatures, during their stay in the hospital. Saliva samples were collected at two times in the afternoon for the purpose of measuring ...

The experience of loss due to death, illness, and social mitigation was inevitable during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental health services are chronically difficult access in Canada, this barrier is further exacerbated when trying certified art therapists deliver expressive arts therapy. This pilot project attempted provide an alternative service through interprofessional alliance with a professio...