Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the impact of expressive arts therapy program on psychological symptoms, hopelessness, automatic thoughts and dysfunctional attitudes of individuals. The study group consisted of 11 participants (2 men, 9 women), ages ranging from 24 to 62. Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), Automatic Thoughts Scale (SAS) and Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS) have been applied to all participants initially and after nine weeks of therapy. An expressive arts therapy program lasting a total of 180 minutes in 9 sessions was implemented. One group pretest - posttest control study design was used and data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank test. The results suggested that expressive art therapy program had positive effects on individuals' despair, automatic thoughts, dysfunctional attitudes and Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) somatization subscale, obsessive-compulsive disorder, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, phobic anxiety, paranoid thinking and psychotism; but it was not effective at reducing anger levels.
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