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Hass-Cohen, Noah; Bokoch, Rebecca; Fowler, Grace – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2023
The Compassionate Arts Psychotherapy (CAP) program integrates self-compassion and arts psychotherapy practices, which are informed by a compassionate arts media (CAM) continuum. A mixed methods pilot program evaluation with a pretest-posttest single group design, followed by an open-ended survey, was conducted. Participants included 18 graduate…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Psychotherapy, Graduate Students, Self Concept
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Kopytin, Alexander; Lebedev, Alexey – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2013
This article presents findings from a study of the therapeutic effects of group art therapy in a psychotherapy unit of a Russian hospital for war veterans. The researchers randomly assigned 112 veterans being treated for stress-related disorders to an experimental group (art therapy) and a control group. The emphasis was on the use of humor in the…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Psychotherapy, Group Therapy, Veterans
Roth, Ellen A. – 1980
The paper discusses the six major ego functions, ego disturbances in mentally retarded children, and case examples of the use of art therapy to promote ego development. Identified are the following ego functions: control and regulation of instinctual drives, autonomous functions, reality testing, object relationships, defense, and synthesis. The…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Case Studies, Emotional Development, Mental Retardation