Art therapy

It is hard to identify who developed art therapy because human history has intertwined with art as far back as 30,000 BCE (Perdew, 2015, p. 14) and it is widely accepted that art evokes emotion whether it is from the observer or from the artist who uses it to portray their own emotions and perspective of the world through their art. However, the term Art Therapy can be attributed to Adrian Hill in 1942, an artist who used art with other patients when recovering from tuberculosis in a British…

was one of the first and most successful school districts in Miami to develop an art therapy program. The Pilot Program combined art education and art therapy with increased federal funding for special education services in public schools. The success of the program provided additional art therapists with specialized staff development for the art teachers, while eliminating the art education classroom component. The art therapist’s role then involved assessments, interventions, consultations,…

I researched Art therapy for my assignment. I chose this field because it lines up well with my career profile. It would play into my need to help people while also using my passion for art. Art therapists uses the creative processes of making art to help improve their patients’ mental, physical, and emotional well-being. My interest in psychology also a huge part of why I chose this. I interviewed Sarah Brodie. She is an art therapist in the oncology department at a children’s hospital. I…

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.…

As an intern art therapist, I work with child populations at a community center in Brooklyn, New York. The community center provides after-school programs for pre-K to high school students at no cost. Art therapy is also provided as a part of the programs for children who present behavioral or psychological problems in the classroom. Fortunately, I have opportunities to observe a classroom of children aged seven to eight and to interact with them prior to my art therapy session. The classroom…

are better ways to manage and cope with problems in life such as art therapy. Art Therapy is able to benefit people with stress, depression, anger and mental disorders. Art is known to relieve stress and can become a good outlet for depression,…

Art therapy is very stress free, people do not even need a therapist to get the therapeutic benefits out of it. People can just make art on there own time and they would get the same benefits they would get with making it with an actual therapist. This statistic shows that you can relieve stress just by doing art in your own home. People going through stress need to know what art therapy is, what kind of education you need, and the benefits you get from it so people can become stress free and…

Behavioral Therapy and Art Therapy was that these methods of therapy are incompatible. Behavioral Therapy is structured, short term, and focused on changing specific behaviors, which it may appear as a dampener to creative and emotive processes. Behavioral Therapy though, can be very useful for Art Therapy interventions. I realized while reading and learning more about Behavioral Therapy, that this approach is one my peers and myself use often, especially at Head Start. Behavioral Therapy, is…

unique performance art, present to the audience in different size and setting of places. A magician possesses skillful technique who can show a miracle or magical feat to convince peoples. They understand fully how to capture human psyche and brings the audience into the magic world. The audience can sense the fear, excitement, and nervousness during the magic performance. It brings amazing, incredible experience and unforgettable memory to the audience. Expressive arts therapy is like a…

The Therapy of Arts Orthodox medicine and therapy have been the mainstream of all psychiatric treatment. While upon researching I found out about a new approach and form of therapeutic treatment. Art therapy is the new approach to therapeutic treatment for psychiatric disorders, emotional problems or physical disorders or illness. This type of therapy involves people using an expressively creative outlet involving forms of art. Art Therapy in comparison to medication and therapy is successful…