Art Therapy Methods Research Articles

THE HISTORY AND POTENTIAL OF ART THERAPY IN THE PREVENTION OF SOCIAL PHOBIAS OF STUDENTS

In the article, particularities of the preventive work of social phobias of youth are considered. According to WHO, the number of children and youth with such a diagnosis has now increased. This is an important argument in favor of the need for early detection and prevention of social phobias in order to prevent severe maladaptation, the development of persistent inadequate defense mechanisms, the occurrence of concomitant diseases such as severe depression and alcoholism. Also, the characteristic indications for prevention is the inability, due to fears, to continue to study, work, form stable social ties, etc. The article suggests the periodization of the development of research on the prevention of social phobias. 3 stages are distinguished: Pre-Developmental Period, Initial Developmental Period, Recent Developments. It considers factors affecting the development of social phobias of youth. A prevention program of students’ social phobias was developed, as part of the research. 60 students of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University attended in the experiment. Diagnostics is made by LSAS method. The correction program included art-therapeutical methods, classes were conducted according to a program designed for 30 hours. The stabilization dynamics is shown after experimental and pedagogical work on the prevention of social phobias through art therapy methods. Key words: social phobia, prevention, phobia, program, preventive work, art therapy, fears, social and educational methods.

From Compassion Fatigue to Vitality: Memoir With Art Response for Self-Care

The combination of an art therapist’s personal trauma with secondary traumatic stress can lead to compassion fatigue. Inspired by narrative art therapy methods, the author engaged in memoir writing, art responses, authentic movement, and public exhibition. This creative life review identified ways in which her nervous system responses to clients’ traumas became tangled with personal implicit memories from childhood trauma and attachment injuries. The creative process identified overburdened and untended personal life-stage initiations (e.g., entering midlife), which emerged as 2 insights: pain numbing to cope with juvenile arthritis and restricted early attachment. This awareness led to a better understanding of fight–flight–freeze responses and improved relationships with clients and others.

Finding clarity in chaos: Art therapy lessons from a psychiatric Hospital

Art therapy methods and approach are explored through an overview of inpatient psychiatric art therapy and a series of practice-oriented lessons. Case vignettes describe a range of highly symptomatic patients in short term treatment and illustrate art therapy interventions that take place within the inherent challenges of the workplace. Patient symptoms (such as poor reality testing, emotional distress, and lack of stimulus barrier) necessitate structured methods and extremely modest goals that focus on heightened organization, reality-orientation, self-soothing, increased attention span, and distress tolerance. The internal chaos of patients and the overstimulating hospital environment demands adaptations, and an intentional approach that accesses individuals’ strengths. The following lessons offer a structure for managing and supporting patients: 1. Focus on Under-stimulation; 2. Build Individual Strengths through Accessing Creativity When Possible; 3. Re-examine Definitions of Group Cohesion; 4. Help Patients to Gain a Sense of Control; 5. Consider the Continuum of Relational Tolerance; and 6. Encourage Reality Orientation through Art-Based Form and Content.

Forming a Tolerant Attitude Towards Children in the Vocational Training of Social Workers

The article considers one of the urgent problems of training future social workers to form a tolerant attitude towards children using interactive technologies. In particular, the essence of such concepts as tolerance, training of future social workers, interactive technologies is revealed. The features of interactive methods for recognizing tolerance in interaction with others are highlighted: modeling of life situations, the use of role-playing games, a joint solution to the problem. Attention is directed to the awareness of tolerance in interaction with others through the modeling of life situations, the use of role-playing games, the joint solution of the problems of group interaction in accepting others.The features of interactive gaming methods are summarized: modeling, role-playing situations, game dramatization, organizational-active games, business games, simulation games, correctional games, didactic games, contests. The content of the joint work in the group for regulating students' tolerant behavior is revealed from the point of view of discussing ideas about the situation two-four-all together, dialogue, discussion. To form a desire to accept the individuality of each person, the values of another, the content of interactive methods is presented: a joint project, a team search for information, a circle of ideas, brainstorming, training-education, a decision tree.The article is devoted to the methods of art therapy: therapy, isotherapy, game therapy, fairy tale therapy, puppet therapy, music therapy, dance therapy. The presented interactive methods in the training of future social workers require a combination of collective, cooperative, group and pair collaboration based on equal, equal subject-subject interaction with the mandatory use of reflection of knowledge, skills and methods of their implementation.

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.

Restoration of emotional bonds in the family system

The article reveals the problems of emotional bonds restoration in the family system. Possibilities are analyzed of the systematic approach in the family psychotherapy. The example is given of work with the family system whose members have an addictive behavior. Symptoms of dysfunctions of family relationships are summarized. The goals of psychotherapy are indicated with the family and with each family member. The possibilities are analyzed of these problems solving. Meaningful relationships are specified in resolving the problem of restoration of emotional bonds between family members. The use of art therapy methods is illustrated in the strategy of restoration of the personal boundaries of family members. Changes are analyzed in family functions in the process of psychotherapeutic sessions. Methods of work in the gestalt therapy and the dialogue-phenomenological approach are proposed. The method of own life history description allows its reviewing in different ways. The narrative method activates changes in the awareness of context of life problems.

APPLICATION OF ART THERAPY FOR CORRECTION OF PERSONAL DISORDERS OF PSYCHOEMOTIONAL STATE OF CHILDREN - INHABITANTS OF RADIATION POLLUTED TERRITORIES AND CHILDREN DISPLACED FROM THE ARMED CONFLICT ON THE SOUTHERN EAST OF UKRAINE.

to identify the psycho-emotional state of children - residents of radioactively contaminated territories and children displaced from the zone of armed conflict in the south-east of Ukraine, and evaluate the effectiveness of art therapy application to correct its disturbances. The psycho-emotional state was determined in 113 children, of which 57 children from radioactively contaminated territories with 137Cs content in the body from 269 Bq to 7024 Bq (group I) and 56 chil- dren displaced from the zone of military conflict in the Southeast of Ukraine (group II). The age of children ranged from 10 to 17 years. The children were hospitalized to the childrens' clinics of the NRCRM because of functional dis- orders and chronic somatic pathology. The psycho-emotional state of children was evaluated using the «non-exis- tent animal» test. It was analyzed for three symptoms - anxiety, aggressiveness and neuropsychiatric exhaustion and was evaluated by scoring points. Correction of the psychoemotional condition was carried out by the method of art therapy in the form of a serial drawing. Psychological testing was performed twice: at admission to the hospital and after the end of the art therapy. The results of the primary examination of the psycho-emotional state of children by the «non-existent ani- mal» test showed that in children - residents of radioactively contaminated territories the state of anxiety was reg- istered in all 57 children (100 %), the state of aggression - in 38 children (66.7%); exhaustion - in 37 children (64.9 %). In children who have been displaced from the zone of armed conflict in the south-east of Ukraine, the state of anxiety was also registered in all 56 children (100 %), the status of aggression was determined in 53 chil- dren (94.6 %), and the state of exhaustion - in 44 children (78.6 %). It was established that in children displaced from the combat zone in the Southeast of Ukraine, the quantitative indices of anxiety and aggression states were sig- nificantly higher than in children living in radioactively contaminated territories (p < 0.001), whereas nor by frequen- cy, nor by the degree of severity of exhaustion state they did not clearly differ (p > 0.05). Correlation analysis with the definition of Spearman's criterion did not reveal likely association between the content of 137Cs in the body of children - residents of radioactively contaminated territories and the peculiarities of their psycho-emotional state. The use of the art therapy method in the form of a serial drawing for children - residents of radioac- tively contaminated territories and children moved from the combat zone in the south-east of Ukraine, led to a sig- nificant positive effect, which was characterized by a decrease in the manifestations of symptoms of anxiety and aggressiveness. The state of exhaustion was less well corrected and its indices only had a tendency to improve. Thus, the method of art therapy in the form of a serial drawing is characterized by efficiency, simplicity of execution, low cost, it can be widely used in children's teams to correct disorders of the psycho-emotional state.

Применение арт-терапевтических методов в работе по формированию коммуникативных навыков у детей с расстройствами аутистического спектра

The goal of the psychological and pedagogical experiment conducted in the academic year 2018-2019 is to determine the preferred sensory channels of preschool children with autism spectrum disorders for the development of recommendations on the use of art therapy methods and techniques in the formation of communication skills. The experimental group included 10 preschoolers from 4 to 7 years old with autism spectrum disorders. At the diagnostic stage, the degree of formation of communication skills was studied, the preferred sensory modalities were determined. All children showed a low level of development of communication skills: 2 of them had no speech, 4 of them used speech only in affectively significant situations, the rest used separate words and simple phrases for communication. According to the results of a experiment, it was determined that for 4 children the tactile channel is preferred, for 3 - visual, for 3 - audio. Recommendations are given on the use of art-therapeutic methods and techniques: for preschoolers with a predominant tactile way of perceiving - exercises with sand, for children with auditory preferences - music and dance therapy, for children with a predominant visual way of perceiving - isotherapy.

ГЕНДЕРНІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ПРОЯВУ ТРИВОЖНОСТІ У ЛІВОРУКИХ ТА ПРАВОРУКИХ СТУДЕНТІВ ВНЗ ТА ОСОБЛИВОСТІ КОРЕКЦІЇ ЗА ДОПОМОГОЮ АРТ-ТЕРАПІЇ

The issue of anxiety in the modern world is important for the adaptation of people.In the system of modern scientific knowledge the phenomenon of anxiety in a human body and its impact on a person’s development and adjustment to the environment is one of the fundamental issues in biology, medicine, pedagogy and psychology. For example, it was found that anxiety in students has certain specific features.The aim of my work was to study the features of anxiety in university students.The following tasks were formulated to reach this aim:1. Analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on the use of the method of art therapy as a means of correction of level of anxiety of adolescents.2. Experimentally examine the features of the level of anxiety of adolescents.3. Based on the results of the study, formulate conclusions and practical recommendations for parents and teachers.4. To study correction-developing program of correction of level of anxiety of adolescents.This theme is relevant because there are very few studies on the connection between the specific features of anxiety. In addition, theoretical and practical results of the existing works in this field contain much ambiguity and contradictions.This study involved 20 first grade psychology students in the age of 15 to 16 years.We were able to determine the level of anxiety in the group, compare the results and identify the differences. By statistical processing of the experimental data, we checked and proved the confirmation of our hypothesis.Art therapy, as a method of psychological and pedagogical correction, is the most effective means of psycho-correctional influence on the emotional sphere. Art therapy helps a person to resolve internal conflicts and strong emotions. Art therapy promotes awareness of feelings and feelings.In order to identify the effectiveness of the program, we conducted a pilot experiment.With the help of Spielberger's technique, we identified levels of anxiety in the group, compare the results and identify the differences. By statistical processing of the experimental data, we checked and proved the confirmation of our hypothesis.

Creative Improvisation Through Literature

Previous studies indicated the effectiveness of using art-therapy methods in preventing psychological problems or improving emotional intelligence. In this study, 40 participants engaged in a narrative therapy–based intervention group (CILP group), aimed at increasing emotional intelligence. In parallel, another group (art-therapy group) also composed of 40 participants, using other art-therapy techniques was conducted. A control group, consisting of the same number of participants ( n = 40) who did not engage in any intervention, was included in the study. Results indicated significant increases in emotional intelligence in the CILP group between pretest and posttest. In addition, there were significant differences observed between the CILP group and the art-therapy group, as well as between the CILP group and the control group, all at the posttest stage. Implications, limitations, and future research directions are addressed.

Processing Emotions and Memorising Coursework through Memory Drawing

Memory of drawings and words were compared for 134 subjects in a quantitative research. Nine weeks after the initial encoding the median amount of recalled drawings was five times higher, than for written words. There was no difference between memorised drawings and words when recalling took place right after encoding. Qualitative case studies were also conducted which demonstrated the way in which memory drawing can facilitate coursework learning. The memory drawing and the therapeutic process indicated that sensitive emotional material can be brought up and processed through such drawings. Art therapy theories and methods were found to be important in terms of memory drawing in order to explore, understand and explain the function of memory drawing for processing emotions and facilitating memory of coursework. An art therapy framework was also found to be important for considering the ethics and drawing boundaries for the memory drawing method in order to create safe spaces for students and clients who engage in creating memory drawings within therapy or education. Keywords: Memory, drawing, art educational therapy (AET), trauma, coursework learning.

ГЕНДЕРНІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ВИЯВУ ТРИВОЖНОСТІ У ЛІВОРУКИХ І ПРАВОРУКИХ СТУДЕНТІВ ВИШІВ ТА ОСОБЛИВОСТІ КОРЕКЦІЇ ЗА ДОПОМОГОЮ АРТ-ТЕРАПІЇ

The article discusses the features of the manifestation of anxiety in university students and provides the main mechanisms for the correction of anxiety using art therapy. In the system of modern scientific knowledge, the phenomenon of anxiety and its impact on human development and its adaptation to the environment is one of the main issues of biology, medicine, pedagogy, and psychology. The article emphasizes the features of personality formation in adolescence, describes the main psychological mechanisms of the development of the emotional sphere. An analysis of the psychological and pedagogical literature on the use of the art therapy method as a means of correcting adolescents' anxiety levels has been performed. The results of studying the peculiarities of anxiety in university students are demonstrated. Left-handed children were found to be more anxious than right-handed. Thus, the article presents the results of a study that was carried out using a complex of appropriate psychodiagnostic techniques. The students of higher educational institutions took part in it. The article identifies the level of anxiety in the group and major differences among the subjects. It is revealed that the dynamics of the psychoemotional state is affected by the peculiarity of the left and right hemisphere asymmetries. However, with hereditary left-handedness, left-handed people are more neurotic, unlike right-handed people. It was confirmed that Art therapy, as a method of psychological and pedagogical correction, is the most effective means of psychocorrectional influence on the emotional sphere of a person. It has been determined that art therapy helps a person solve internal conflicts, deal with strong emotions, and helps to realize his feelings.

The Development of Psychological Counseling—Literature Therapy

It has been more than one hundred years since Psychology separated from Philosophy. During this period of time, people paid more and more attention to mental health issues. So, psychological counseling also gradually developed and expanded. In the course of the development of psychological counseling, the traditional psychological counseling has been improved and adjusted on the basis of the original theory, and many new methods and means of consultation have been derived, among which the brightest one is art therapy. After combing the traditional schools of psychological counseling, this paper discusses one method of art therapy--the literature therapy and its relationship with the traditional schools of psychological counseling.

SANAT TERAPİSİ YÖNTEMİNİN VE TEKNİKLERİNİN SAĞLIK - İYİLEŞTİRME GÜCÜ ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİ

Communication skills and needs are necessary for human and art can be used as a symbolic way of communicating with the spirit when verbal communication is inadequate or problematic. In this research, the reality of the use of Art Therapy in the treatment dimension has been discussed. Scientific research for the use of Art Therapy method in the field of health has been included in the opinions and opinions of the researchers. The research has found that art therapy is an important part of human history and that the use of therapeutic use in the history of patients on the effects of art therapy has also been used as an alternative medicine in our modern health care services

The Effectiveness of Art Therapy for Teaching Social Skills to Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

The purpose of this quasi-experimental research study was to evaluate the effectiveness of art therapy for teaching social skills to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The program we tested was structured to provide a therapeutic setting for children to discuss difficulties they experience in their social interactions, and give them opportunities to develop a better understanding of appropriate ways to respond in social situations. Art therapy methods in a group setting were designed to help them develop and rehearse social skills and positive social interactions with same-aged peers who shared similar experiences. Findings revealed that art therapy enhanced the ability of children with ASD to engage and assert themselves in their social interactions, while reducing hyperactivity and inattention.

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The article deals with topical issues of the method of art therapy in social and cultural activities and reveals the essence, purpose, types of art therapy. There are defi nitions of art therapy, social and cultural activities, professional training and readiness for social and cultural activities. It was revealed the importance of applying a method of art therapy for social rehabilitation and integration of disabled people. The results of workers� diagnostics and recipients of social services in order to identify the conditions and the need of using a method of art therapy in institutions of social protection are analyzed. It solved the problem of using the method of art therapy and proved the necessity for the development of its theoretical and practical basis in the preparation of specialists in social and cultural activities.

Developmental Transformations Art Therapy: An Embodied, Interactional Approach

A new method of art therapy is described, based on Developmental Transformations, in which the therapist participates in joint art making with a client. The therapist's task is to present a graduated set of interpersonal demands on the client through the artwork, helping the client find adaptive responses to accommodations required by others, as well as reducing the client's fears of intimacy and encounter. The authors describe the principles, procedures, and specific techniques of the approach, and then present a case example illustrating the process. The advantages and limitations of this dialogic and interactive art therapy methodology are discussed.

To the question about the new approaches of professional training of bachelors on "pedagogical education" direction

The article discusses a number of issues in modern education, including University teachers’ training. The art therapy as an approach in professional training of future music teachers: the aspect of solving difficulties of the teacher-musician - the distortion of the content and nature of the interpretation process due to the specificity of the learning process. The research proves that the inclusion of art therapy methods in the educational process leads to a positive dynamics of forming of professionally meaningful competencies: differentiation of one’s emotions and adequacy of music interpretation to its content. The article is addressed to psychologists, pedagogues, and specialists in the art therapy sphere and other psychotherapy areas, and for students of universities.

Usage of art therapy methods for correction of computer dependency in schoolchildren

Usage of art therapy methods for correction of computer dependency in schoolchildren

Art Therapists in Health Care

The members of the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Künstlerische Therapien (BAG KT - "Working Committee of Art Therapies of the Federal Republic of Germany") decided to carry out an analysis of the occupational group of art therapists, in the form of an online inquiry. For this purpose, a questionnaire covering all fields of art therapies was developed, recording socio-demographic and qualification data, data of different fields of activity, patient characteristics, institutional conditions and setting as well as data on reimbursement. 2303 evaluable data sets are available. Here, the main focus is on art therapists in the health care sector according to SGB (N=2134). 83% of them are female, 56% work in the field of emergency medicine and curative treatment, followed by rehabilitation and youth welfare. In all sectors, specialization in music and art therapy predominates. 57% of the therapists have a special graduate degree in art therapy methods, 83% have a graduate degree. 42% have a license to work as an alternative non-medical practitioner. Nearly all of them use methods of quality management. The results highlight the implementation of art therapies in health care.