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Gavron, Tami; Mayseless, Ofra – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2015
This brief report describes a preliminary study that examined the association between implicit aspects of parent-child relationships as assessed by the Joint Painting Procedure (JPP) and self-report measures of the quality of mother-child relations and children's adjustment at home and at school as reported by the mothers. Forty mother-child dyads…
Descriptors: Painting (Visual Arts), Art Therapy, Art Activities, Mothers
Sandmire, David Alan; Gorham, Sarah Roberts; Rankin, Nancy Elizabeth; Grimm, David Robert – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2012
This study examined the psychological effects of art making in a sample of 57 undergraduate students. One week prior to final examinations, participants were randomly assigned to either an art-making group or a control group. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory was administered before and after participation. Art making activities included painting…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Art Activities, Art Therapy, Undergraduate Students
Abbott, Kayleigh A.; Shanahan, Matthew J.; Neufeld, Richard W. J. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2013
Art making has been documented as an effective stress reduction technique. In this between-subjects experimental study, possible mechanisms of stress reduction were examined in a sample of 52 university students randomly assigned to one of four conditions generated by factorially crossing Activity Type (artistic or nonartistic) with Coping…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Art Activities, College Students, Coping
Kuo, Ching-Chih; Lin, Christine Ie-Ting; Kuo, Bor-Jou; Kuang, Ching-Chen; Dai, Ling-Tsai – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Assisting every student with special needs to give scope to their talents and to possess healthy personality and mature social skill that advance their careers at their working places is far from being easy. Within the domains of special education, students are placed in relative disadvantage when they bear cultural differences, and mental or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Artists
Futterman Collier, Ann D.; Wayment, Heidi A.; Birkett, Melissa – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2016
The authors hypothesized that a textile art-making activity that was high in arousal, engagement, and positive mood and low in rumination and negative affect would be most effective for mood repair and would buffer inflammatory immune reactions. Forty-seven experienced textile handcrafters were asked to recall an upsetting situation before random…
Descriptors: Handicrafts, Hypothesis Testing, Textiles Instruction, Art Activities
Chilton, Gioia; Scotti, Victoria – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2014
This article describes an artistic inquiry conducted by two art therapists using a dialogic method of collage and letter writing over a period of 4 weeks. The goal of the project was to broaden understanding of arts-based research and to discover the properties of collage as a research practice in art therapy. A thematic analysis of the visual and…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Art Products, Research Methodology, Allied Health Personnel
Hass-Cohen, Noah; Clyde Findlay, Joanna; Carr, Richard; Vanderlan, Jessica – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2014
The Check ("Check, Change What You Need To Change and/or Keep What You Want") art therapy protocol is a sequence of directives for treating trauma that is grounded in neurobiological theory and designed to facilitate trauma narrative processing, autobiographical coherency, and the rebalancing of dysregulated responses to psychosocial…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Trauma, Neurology, Biology
Wexler, Alice; Derby, John – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2015
In this article, we use a disability studies lens to examine ways in which the artworks of disabled people are bonded in a common sociopolitical experience. We analyze the history surrounding institutional art and the emergence of community art centers at the time of deinstitutionalization in the late 20th century. As a result of this…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Institutionalized Persons, Art, Art Activities
Lee, SeungYeon – Art Education, 2017
A student's lack of belief in his or her own ability to do well in school can be a driving component of disengagement. In response, the author created art activities aimed to build students' confidence in their ability to learn, carry out a given art task, and identify a competence; such asset-based thinking approaches encourage students to reach…
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Urban Education, Competence
Flett, Jayde A. M.; Lie, Celia; Riordan, Benjamin C.; Thompson, Laura M.; Conner, Tamlin S.; Hayne, Harlene – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Adult coloring books have flooded the market with titles alluding to therapeutic value, yet it is unclear whether they fulfil that promise. Here, we tested whether adult coloring was related to improvements in psychological outcomes. Female university students (n = 104) were randomly assigned to a coloring intervention or a logic-puzzle control…
Descriptors: Adults, Freehand Drawing, Art Activities, Books
Carsley, Dana; Heath, Nancy L.; Fajnerova, Sophia – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2015
To evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based structured versus unstructured coloring on test anxiety, 52 participants (53.8% female; M[subscript age] = 10.92 years, SD = 0.82) were randomly assigned to either a structured mandala (n = 26) or free coloring condition (n = 26), and completed a standardized anxiety measure to assess anxiety…
Descriptors: Perception, Metacognition, Attention Control, Test Anxiety
Mohr, Elizabeth – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2014
Evidence that posttraumatic growth is a potential outcome in the process of recovery from trauma and natural disaster highlights the importance of social environmental factors that encourage a growth response in survivors. This art-based research project followed up on a group of youth survivors (N = 11) of the 2007 earthquake in the Ica region of…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Trauma, Natural Disasters, Social Environment
Gray, Bronwen Lucie – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2012
This article discusses the theoretical and social contexts of a community art project that took place at a public housing estate located in Melbourne, Australia. The art intervention was aimed at increasing the residents' health and well-being through the empowerment of their own cultural creations. Three sculptures in the form of giant babushka…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Therapy, Art Activities, Community Programs
Stephenson, Raquel Chapin – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2013
This article describes a community art therapy program that was designed to promote health and well-being in old age. Observations of diverse participant interactions in the nondirective therapy studio over the course of 6 years revealed the benefits of art making and how it may influence well-being during the process of advancing age. Program…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Older Adults, Well Being, Community Programs
Chou, Wan-Chi; Lee, Gabrielle T.; Feng, Hua – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a behavioral art program in improving social skills for two children with autism in group settings. A multiple probe design across behaviors was used. The results indicated that for both children, the program increased the percentages of spontaneous verbal communications,…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Behavior Modification, Children, Interpersonal Competence