Art Therapy Workshop Research Articles

Contrainte carcérale, soin et prise en charge en art-thérapie

AimsThis article is a reflection on the issues of health and care in prison in the setting of art therapy workshops. The questions raised by the practice of art for therapeutic purposes lead on to consideration of many forms of relationships between the individual and society. MethodAn ecological approach makes it possible to take the individual into account via a set of phenomena, using the contemporary art therapy methods specific to the Association Française de Recherches et Applications des Techniques Artistiques en Pédagogie et Médecine (AFRATAPEM). This approach takes the form of a phenomenology of artistic action for therapeutic purposes. The artistic phenomenon is articulated around four phases: impression, intention, action and production. ResultsThe results show that art affords scope for change by way of the use of concepts and phenomena that belong to the artistic phenomenon as a whole. The plasticity that is an integral part of the phenomenological organisation of humans can be used in art therapy. Prison changes people as a result of its violence, while art therapy can help to reduce its harmful impact. DiscussionIn prison, relationships are controlled, and maintained at a certain level of violence, which is coherent with the setting. Thus, in the care plan offered to a detainee, the question of health and well-being is central to the social issues involved, and to how they are dealt with. It is for caregivers to assess the limits of tolerability, and when the intolerable threatens the very humanity of the individual, the legitimacy of the response needs to be discussed. The prison environment lays claim to legitimacy that could be understood as way of changing society. The person discharged after a prison sentence carries with him violence that compounds the violence pre-existing his incarceration. Because imprisonment is not envisaged in terms of its function and in the long term, just as the economy has not taken account of ecology, prisons no longer protect society from violence, but, quite the reverse, manufacture and disseminate it.

El arteterapia en el contexto de los Servicios Sociales de Base: el taller de arteterapia como espacio de observación para la intervención primaria

Through this article, we approach part of the results obtained in the qualitative study carried out on an art therapy workshop for primary intervention in the field of social services. We see how art is configured as a useful tool for social intervention, as an observation space to detect social problems and difficulties in child development.

An adjunctive, museum-based art therapy experience in the treatment of women with severe eating disorders

Previous research suggests that creative art therapies can produce short-term improvements in self-concept, mood and perceived well-being in various patient populations. Evaluation of such improvements for eating disorder patients has received little attention to date. The present report describes an Art Therapy program, consisting of a visit to Montreal Museum of Fine Arts followed by an art-therapy workshop that was provided to several groups of adult patients from the Douglas Institute’s Eating Disorders Program. We evaluated the suitability the AT program for patients being treated for eating disorders (in terms of patient satisfaction and tolerability) in a sample of 78 patients. Results indicated that patients enjoyed the program, and found it interesting and enriching. They also reported that the program provided a means for self-expression and creativity. We also assessed the short-term impact of art therapy on self-reported mood using the Profile of Mood States (POMS-BI (Lorr, McNair, & Fisher, 1982)), eating disorder preoccupations and urges using a Visual Analog Scale, as well as body image concerns using the Body Satisfaction Scale (Slade, Dewey, Newton, Brodie, & Kiemle, 1990). At the end of the program, patients were significantly more composed and slightly more tired. The findings from the current study provide data on the suitability of art therapy programs as adjuncts to standard treatments for adults with eating disorders and show no significant short-term impact, either positive or negative, on body image or eating preoccupations/urges.

Standing Tall: Students Showcase Resiliency Through Body Tracings (Standing Tall: la résilience en vitrine dans les tracés corporels d'étudiants)

ABSTRACTDemands to support the mental health needs of children continue to rise as complex stressors create obstacles for development. School-based art therapy helps students organize the chaos of their internal worlds and their often less than favorable realities. Standing Tall, an exhibition of body tracings, was the culmination of workshops offered to public school students aimed to build adaptive coping skills. Students engaged in group discussions and created poses of strength in their body tracings. This article describes details of this brief intervention. This school-wide program enabled students to participate in art therapy workshops that fostered resiliency and provided validation.

¿Cómo acompañar al principito? La interacción entre el juego espontáneo y las disciplinas artísticas en el acompañamiento arteterapéutico en la infancia

The main goal of this article is to give significance to spontaneous play from its interaction with the arts when using art therapy with children. Starting from the observations made during the therapeutic process of a child in an art therapy workshop conducted in his school, the article concludes with the contributions of play in that specific therapeutic area and its impact on the methodological practice.

El títere como herramienta de trabajo en Arteterapia

El presente artículo pretende indagar en las posibilidades propias de la construcción de títeres en el taller de arteterapia, para ello se realiza un recorrido que parte del uso primitivo del títere como doble mágico y potencial hacia el estudio de autores que han utilizado los títeres como herramienta terapéutica desde la primera mitad del siglo XX. Se plantea un cuerpo teórico propio, que incluye el considerar la significación del cuerpo en la construcción y manejo del títere, y la perspectiva transional del títere, a medio camino de la realidad externa y la realidad psíquica, como objeto que fabrica fantasía y construye realidad.

La huella epidérmica en un taller de Arteterapia

Presentamos la experiencia de un Taller de Arteterapia breve, realizado con un grupo de mujeres con afecciones dermatológicas, llevado a cabo en el Hospital General Universitario Reina Sofía de Murcia. Centraremos la atención en una de las pacientes, reconociendo la importancia de las relaciones grupales para su terapia. El objetivo principal del taller fue establecer un vínculo entre las emociones y vivencias de las pacientes y su propio cuerpo, más específicamente su afección de piel. Así, lo personal, lo familiar y lo social se constituyen como base en la que se inscriben esas emociones y vivencias. Las relaciones de pareja y su condición de madres son guías del trabajo terapéutico llevado a cabo.

Meaning and progress of art therapy workshop offered to teenage girls suffering from anorexia nervosa, hospitalized in the child psychiatric ward. Preliminary report

Meaning and progress of art therapy workshop offered to teenage girls suffering from anorexia nervosa, hospitalized in the child psychiatric ward. Preliminary report

Recuperar la esperanza

A clinical case about a participant in an Art Therapy Workshop for battered women. We will present how, from an initial state of confusion, skepticism, and blockage and through the sessions’ creative work which led exercises of expression, analysis and reflection, this woman was able to reread and unblock her own biography, feelings and emotions, beginning to catch a glitter of hope for her present and future.

Between art and therapy: using pictures from the world of art as an Imaginal focus

This paper addresses some of the problems encountered in group art therapy workshops, such as the inhibitions people feel in talking about someone else's image, and the restraints these impose on the exercise of imagination and fantasy in their response. It also offers a safe way of experimenting in a group workshop, using imagery, whether written or drawn, as a way of exploring an image that is not the creation of any person in the group, and therefore a less sensitive focal point. The perspective adopted is broadly post-Jungian, and the workshop has been tested in a variety of settings including both art therapy training and open workshops.

Rights of Restoration

In 2009, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF) undertook research to examine the use of creative arts in relation to healing from historic trauma and the legacy of Canada's Indian Residential School system. The research process included a survey of more than one hundred First Nation, Inuit, and Métis healing programs, interviews with healers and therapists, and participant-observation of an art therapy workshop held at Tsow-Tun Le Lum Healing Centre on the Nanoose First Nation in British Columbia. This paper presents finding from the survey followed by a detailed presentation of the art therapy workshop. The writing includes research and policy perspectives as well as the art therapist's aesthetic response to the research process.

Group art therapy in a Methadone Clinic Lobby

A Weekly group art therapy workshop, held in the waiting room of the Venice (California) Methadone Clinic of the Los Angeles Institute for Studies of Destructive Behavior, is described. In this workshop, the clients project their imagination onto random lines and shapes made by string and ink on paper, drawing out the images they see and writing titles and sometimes stories about them. The artwork is shared, discussed, and displayed in the lobby. Through this art-centered process, the clients learn to communicate feelings and conflicts with each other. They also develop social skills, gain insight, and improve their self-esteem. Group art therapy, when combined with counseling, is an effective therapeutic modality when working with a nonverbal and resistant population such as drug abusers.