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Ching-Teng Yao – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are at increased risk of progression to dementia. Whether it is feasible to engage this population in expressive arts therapy and yield effects on cognition and depression for older adults with MCI remained unclear. The aim of this study examined the effects of expressive arts therapy on the…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Art Expression, Cognitive Processes, Neurological Impairments
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Garti, Dana; Bat Or, Michal – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2019
This study explores the subjective experience of art therapists who work with bereaved clients. Eight art therapists were given an art-based task and completed a semistructured interview. Qualitative analysis revealed 3 themes conceived in axes: (a) facilitating emotional expressiveness and control, (b) fluctuating between presence and absence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Therapy, Allied Health Personnel, Grief
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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
Palmiotto, Kimberley – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research demonstrates that addressing mental health issues in children can yield both increased academic performance and better social-emotional skills. In the past, school-based mental health services for students have been implemented inconsistently and usually in combination with community partners. When school mental health interventions are…
Descriptors: School Counselors, School Counseling, School Psychologists, Art Therapy
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Hrenko, Kathy D.; Willis, Robert – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1996
Identifies common imagery created by psychiatric inpatients through the amusement park technique; demonstrates how the artwork serves to identify the psychodynamic concerns of the mentally ill substance abuser. Connections are examined relating patients choice of image, psychiatric diagnosis, and drug of choice. This technique offers promise for…
Descriptors: Adults, Art Expression, Art Therapy, Clinical Diagnosis
Frostig, Karen; Essex, Michele – 1998
This guide provides recommendations and guidelines to expressive arts therapists and educators who work in school settings as therapists, supervisors, supervisees, or graduate school expressive arts interns. There are eight chapters: (1) Expressive Arts Therapies in School Settings (definitions, learning objectives, confidentiality, ethical…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Art Therapy, Dance Therapy, Educational Therapy