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Peterson, Caroline – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2015
This brief report describes a mindfulness-based art therapy (MBAT) intervention, "Walkabout: Looking In, Looking Out," which was piloted in 2010 and has since been offered at the Abramson Cancer Center at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. The author adapted the original MBAT intervention using a walkabout conceptual model, which was…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Metacognition, Intervention, Hospitals
Stinley, Nora E.; Norris, Deborah O.; Hinds, Pamela S. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2015
This randomized controlled clinical trial explored the feasibility of implementing a fast-acting mandala intervention to reduce physical pain and psychological anxiety experienced during needle sticks. Forty pediatric patients participated in this two-group study: 20 participants created a mandala on an iPad (Treatment Group) and 20 participants…
Descriptors: Pain, Patients, Pediatrics, Art Activities
Hill, Kaylin E.; Lineweaver, Tara T. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2016
We evaluated changes in positive and negative affect of grieving children in response to art making compared to another noncreative, non-expressive, but engaging visuospatial task and assessed whether art making was equally or differentially effective in individual versus collaborative settings. We randomly assigned grieving children to one of…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Children, Grief, Intervention
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2016
Research suggests that the arts can have a positive impact on youth development, from birth through adolescence. This review explores recent research on arts-based programs and arts therapies. Programs were considered arts-based if at least one of the main components was an arts-related activity, or if there was a deliberate use of arts in the…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Therapy, At Risk Students, Juvenile Justice
O'Neill, Aimee; Moss, Hilary – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2015
This paper describes a community art therapy group for people living with chronic pain. Nine adults were offered 12 weekly group art therapy sessions that included art therapy activities such as guided imagery focusing on body scans followed by art responses and artistic expressions of the pain experience. This pilot group art therapy program is…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Adults, Group Therapy, Chronic Illness
Robb, Megan; Miller, Abbe – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2017
Although art-based supervision often leads to supervisee disclosure, little is known about the experience, process, or contributions of such disclosure. We investigated the phenomenon of supervisee disclosure during "El Duende" Process Painting art-based group supervision using a qualitative study. JoHari's Window was used as a grounding…
Descriptors: Self Disclosure (Individuals), Art Activities, Painting (Visual Arts), Art Therapy
Bat Or, Michal – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2015
This study explored mothers' separateness representations via a clay sculpting task assigned to 24 mothers of preschool children aged 21 months to 4 years. Each participant created a clay sculpture of herself and her child, followed by a semi-structured interview about the sculpting experience and the meaning of the sculpture. Qualitative analyses…
Descriptors: Sculpture, Mothers, Art Activities, Art Therapy
Chilton, Gioia – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2013
Flow is a construct developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi that describes a psychological state of optimal attention and engagement. Creativity and improved well-being have been empirically linked to the flow experience; therefore, the study of flow has implications for art therapy research and practice. Art therapists may facilitate personal growth…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Psychological Patterns, Attention, Neurology
Livingston, Lucas; Fiterman Persin, Gerri; Del Signore, Deborah – Journal of Museum Education, 2016
This article focuses on the implementation and evaluation of "Art in the Moment," a collaborative program between the Art Institute of Chicago and CJE SeniorLife, a non-profit eldercare organization and service provider for the Chicago area. We joined together to develop and offer "Art in the Moment" as an arts-based…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Caregivers, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
Moon, Bruce L.; Hoffman, Nadia – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2014
This article presents an innovation in art therapy research and education in which art-based performance is used to generate, embody, and creatively synthesize knowledge. An art therapy graduate student's art-based process of inquiry serves to demonstrate how art and performance may be used to identify the research question, to conduct a process…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Research Methodology, Art Activities
Belkofer, Christopher M.; Van Hecke, Amy Vaughan; Konopka, Lukasz M. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2014
Little empirical evidence exists as to how materials used in art therapy affect the brain and its neurobiological functioning. This pre/post within-groups study utilized the quantitative electroencephalogram (qEEG) to measure residual effects in the brain after 20 minutes of drawing. EEG recordings were conducted before and after participants (N =…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Freehand Drawing, Brain, Art Therapy
Lydia, Ferrara; Aurora, Flammia – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2014
Art therapy is a means of expression, a communication tool that represents the imaginary through the non-verbal. The present work is a proposal for a project to be carried out in Universities, in order to try and experiment with students the language of symbols, specifically the paint, draw, shape, dance, write, recite: activities in which all the…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Aesthetics, Nonverbal Communication, Counseling Techniques
Laurer, Mattye; van der Vennet, Renée – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2015
This study investigated whether art production or viewing and sorting art reproductions would be more effective in reducing negative mood and anxiety for 28 adults with substance use disorders. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups and completed pre- and posttest measures of negative mood and anxiety The hypothesis that art…
Descriptors: Adults, Substance Abuse, Art Therapy, Psychological Patterns
Montgomery, Alexandra – Online Submission, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore the anxiety and stress-reducing effects of drawing, using different drawing materials by promoting the development of student confidence. The drawing activities were designed to foster the exploration of identity, emotion, and sense of self, while encouraging the exploration of materials and mark making.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Stress Management, Art Education, Studio Art
Kuo, Nai-Cheng; Plavnick, Joshua B. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2015
This study examined the effectiveness of an antecedent art intervention on reduction of off-task behavior for a 3-year-old child with autism. A single-case reversal design was used to show that one-on-one art task instruction occurring prior to large group instructional sessions produced decreased levels of off-task behavior when compared to…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Child Behavior, Behavior Modification