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FioRito, Taylor A.; Geiger, Allie R.; Routledge, Clay – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2021
Nostalgic memories are highly social and revisiting them increases social connectedness and motivation. The present study offers a naturalistic approach to studying the social experience of nostalgia. Participants created scrapbooks in groups across three sessions over a period of six weeks. Nostalgia proneness, meaning, and social connection were…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Memory, Art Activities, Counseling Techniques
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Albrecht, Lindsey; Starnes, Hannah; Benton, Katie; Bol, Awel; Gettings, Emily; Dagenhard-Trainer, Paige – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Interactive digital art can be a beneficial therapeutic intervention for a variety of populations, but specifically for the population of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Interactive digital art uses the engagement of the participant to create a digital form of art. The purpose of this literature review is to explore the effects that…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Therapy, Intervention
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Park, Sojung; Lee, Hyunjung; Kim, Seungeun; Kim, Yuri – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2021
The globalization of art therapy requires a high level of multicultural competence among art therapists for ethical practice, which includes understanding the traditional materials of the client's culture. However, the common materials used in art therapy remain mostly Western, which neglects the therapeutic value of art materials from outside the…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Art Materials, Counseling Techniques, Cultural Awareness
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Wang, Geummi; Kim, Youngsoon; Oh, Youngsub – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
The purpose of this study is to analyze how immigrant youths' experiences of collage art therapy were shown in their emotional changes. Research question is as follow: How do the emotional changes of immigrant youths, who participated in the collage group art therapy program, appear in their art works? For this end, 3 immigrant youths were chosen…
Descriptors: Art Products, Art Therapy, Immigrants, Youth
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Bat Or, Michal; Kourkoutas, Elias; Smyrnaki, Maria; Potchebutzky, Hamutal – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2019
This article discusses the clinical benefit of comparing and integrating responses to 2 drawing tasks based on a small study that explored self-agency representations in children with disruptive behavior problems. Qualitative analysis of the children's free drawing and a Person Picking an Apple from a Tree (PPAT) task, as well as comparison of…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Art Therapy, Art Activities, Behavior Problems
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Wilcox, Sadie – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2020
The Artist in Residence at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland offers an arts program that is deeply engaged with the field of disability studies. By moving beyond an exclusively medicalized model of disability, hospitalized children and adolescents are situated as experts on their own lived experience. Artists, art therapists, and pediatric…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Hospitalized Children, Adolescents, Artists
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Arnold, Rebecca – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2020
This pilot study explored how creative engagement could serve as a way to navigate the personal loss experiences of professional art therapists. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 3 participants. The results identified 6 themes and 16 subthemes: balancing personal experiences and professional practice, awareness of time, the loss…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Creativity, Visual Arts, Grief
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Parsons, Ailsa; Omylinska-Thurston, Joanna; Karkou, Vicky; Harlow, Julianne; Haslam, Shelly; Hobson, Jessica; Nair, Kerry; Dubrow-Marshall, Linda; Thurston, Scott; Griffin, Julia – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2020
Routinely prescribed psychological therapies for depression are not always effective. Arts therapies, particularly Dance Movement Psychotherapy, may offer additional therapeutic mechanisms for depression. Therefore, client-reported helpful factors from various therapy types, along with client preferences, are key in devising new therapeutic…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Depression (Psychology), Psychotherapy, Counseling Techniques
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Chávez Leyva, Yolanda – Global Studies of Childhood, 2021
"Deep visual listening and children's art during times of crisis" explores a way to understand children's art created amidst crisis as well as the meanings we can discern from it through the lens of the "Uncaged Art Tornillo Detention Center" exhibit. In 2018, the U.S. government opened a detention center to hold youth who…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Exhibits, Institutionalized Persons, Undocumented Immigrants
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Leone, Kristy; Robbins, Steven J.; Morrow, Michael T. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2018
Clay sculpting was used with undergraduates (N = 60) to prime self-reported readiness to change in a therapy role play. After listing behaviors interfering with schoolwork, Group Change (n = 30) created clay sculptures of anchors and then reshaped them into boats (intended to symbolize transformation); Group Non-Change (n = 30) created clay…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Sculpture, Role Playing
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Cross, Gemma; Brown, Patricia M. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2019
This study compared the effects of 2 art activities (structured and nonstructured) and a focused breathing exercise on outcome measures of mindfulness, anxiety, and affect. Seventy-seven participants, recruited from university students and the general public, were randomly assigned to either 15 min of coloring a mandala (structured), free drawing…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Therapy, Metacognition, Anxiety
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Wong, Antonio Ngok Tung; Au, Wing Tung – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2019
This study tested 2 hypotheses: (a) tactile experience is critical to the effect of creation of clay work in enhancing psychological well-being, and (b) sense of temperature is one of the mediating factors that underlies the effectiveness of tactile experience. Using an experimental research design, 36 Chinese adult participants created clay work…
Descriptors: Well Being, Art Materials, Tactual Perception, Sensory Experience
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Malhotra, Bani – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2019
There is a growing interest in understanding how individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience empathy to explore their social-emotional and communication impairments. Although there has been considerable research into autism and cognitive empathy, research into emotional empathy is scarce, and there is less on the impact of teaching…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Art Activities, Puppetry, Empathy
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Ashlock, Laura E.; Miller-Perrin, Cindy; Krumrei-Mancuso, Elizabeth – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2018
This study compared the effects of 4 different coloring activities on state anxiety scores to determine whether adult coloring books are as effective as other coloring activities in reducing anxiety. Participants were 160 undergraduates attending a private, Christian, liberal arts university. After engaging in an anxiety induction activity,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Art Activities
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Denov, Myriam; Shevell, Meaghan C. – Global Studies of Childhood, 2021
Given the tragedy of war and genocide, words often cannot adequately capture the complexity of war-related experiences. Researchers are increasingly utilizing the arts to enable multiple forms of expression, as well as for its therapeutic and empowering qualities. This paper outlines the use of the "river of life," an arts-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Homicide, Art Activities
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