Art Therapy

Every single type of therapy has two goals: to make the patients feel comforted and keep them involved as much as possible. Several studies have confirmed that any other parts of psychotherapy is any more, or any less, effective. It would be difficult to tell how efficient this actually is considering that each patient is different and has their own way of dealing with their problems. The main focus is making sure that patients feel as though it has helped him or her with making improvements in their daily life. So far, Art Therapy has been proven to enhance multiple factors for different mental illnesses.
Twenty seven studies were focused on a group of patients with cancer. The main intention was to see if Art Therapy had helped them at all. Four factors were looked at, they were, anxiety, depression, pain, and the quality of their lives. When all the studies had been completed, the researchers realized that no matter what therapist, the situation, or the different types of Art Therapy, one thing remained the same in all twenty seven studies. For each patient, …show more content…
In this study, patients were distributed into two separate groups, art therapy and standard therapy. Each patient would go through series of therapy procedures from regular art therapy and regular therapy. During this, their behaviour was studied and recorded showing how it has affected their behavior. Just like the previously mentioned case study, the art therapy test results were proven to have better results. When looking through all the data collected, Psychologist Rachel Ruddy noticed something a bit different, “more people completed the therapy if allocated to the art therapy group, compared with standard care in the short… medium… and long term” (Ruddy). This is stating that more patients were more engaged, and became more open minded using art