EXPLORING ART THERAPY IN HELPING PROFESSION

Abstract

Psychological deprivation, which emphasises a lack of understanding in thinking, feeling, and behavioural issues, can be most effectively addressed by individuals in helping professions using appropriate techniques and approaches. Helping professions like counsellors, psychotherapists, and therapists play extremely important roles and are practically required in every department or organisation to obtain the best possible guidance and outcomes from people who seek out emotional, mental, and physical support. Having access to a diverse range of techniques and a willingness to learn new things is crucial for helping professionals to deliver more inventive, engaging, and creative guidance and counselling services. The helping professions have therefore changed to reflect the times, emphasising the development of creative and innovative thinking that can result in the production of creative and innovative individuals. Helping professionals can equip themselves with a multitude of techniques and approaches to become better practitioner in this helping profession. One of the method is art therapy, which is drawing increasing attention from professionals for its innovative approach to incorporating artistic expression through games, dance, music, visual art, creative writing, and imagery. It can also be summed up as a range of multi-modal art. Thus, this paper will be a preliminary writing that focuses on the need for empirical studies of exploring the usage of art therapy in the helping profession to help their clients.