3. Art has always been a large area of my life. I have been drawing with a pencil and eraser since I could hold them. My passion over the years has increased in art but I did not want to pursue it by itself. The more I thought about what I wanted to do as a career, I knew I wanted to help people. Art can help so many people by drawing and by viewing, a story lays on every canvas. I have recently developed a passion for drug addicts; I have made several friends with recovering drug addicts. Recovering drug addicts can be the most amazing and real people anyone can meet. They understand the immense pain of life but can still laugh and enjoy life to the fullest while clean. As they have slowly opened up I have heard heart wrenching stories of
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Art therapy has been used with drug addicts to help improve rehabilitation and maintain sobriety. This style of therapy is becoming common in trauma therapies with drug addicts. No doubt in mind that drug addicts have experienced their fair share of trauma. Art therapy has been used in many cases particularly with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Along with drug addicts, art therapy is used to aid children who have experience trauma and has also shown great improvements in Alzheimer and dementia patients. My knowledge about this topic is limited at the moment, this is the very reason I want to further explore this subject. I want to understand more about how and why it is useful with trauma. In understanding how it can be efficient in trauma it then can be applied to recovering drug addicts. My personal interactions with recovering drug addicts has given me an understanding of what it is like to be a drug addict; most drug addicts I know are involved in art or music in some form. Art therapy’s usefulness is not fully discovered. It is becoming a popular type of therapy that is not offered in many places. Art therapy is not just for those who are creative and can paint with a paintbrush. While some might find it more frustrating to do art in a counseling session then others it is understood that they would not work well in art therapy. The artistic expression behind art draws out the raw emotions in people. I have never been in art therapy but I use my own art as a
Art therapy has been used with drug addicts to help improve rehabilitation and maintain sobriety. This style of therapy is becoming common in trauma therapies with drug addicts. No doubt in mind that drug addicts have experienced their fair share of trauma. Art therapy has been used in many cases particularly with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Along with drug addicts, art therapy is used to aid children who have experience trauma and has also shown great improvements in Alzheimer and dementia patients. My knowledge about this topic is limited at the moment, this is the very reason I want to further explore this subject. I want to understand more about how and why it is useful with trauma. In understanding how it can be efficient in trauma it then can be applied to recovering drug addicts. My personal interactions with recovering drug addicts has given me an understanding of what it is like to be a drug addict; most drug addicts I know are involved in art or music in some form. Art therapy’s usefulness is not fully discovered. It is becoming a popular type of therapy that is not offered in many places. Art therapy is not just for those who are creative and can paint with a paintbrush. While some might find it more frustrating to do art in a counseling session then others it is understood that they would not work well in art therapy. The artistic expression behind art draws out the raw emotions in people. I have never been in art therapy but I use my own art as a