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Salom, Andrée – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2013
This article describes an art-based inquiry that explored two contemplative strategies--the conceptual strategy and the awareness strategy--through observation of art images and processes of creation, conceptual understanding, assessment, and the inner movements of self-awareness. Art media and directives were used to subjectively test key…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Visual Arts, Reflection, Creative Activities
Nolan, Emily – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2013
Clinical art therapy and studio-based community art therapy represent two major paradigms in art therapy practice. This viewpoint explores how critical theory can be incorporated into both paradigms and result in common ground between them. Critical theory encompasses an understanding of oppression in psychological, social, and cultural contexts…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Critical Theory, Community, Personal Narratives
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
Kay, Lisa; Wolf, Denise – Art Education, 2017
Art classes are often sites for students with academic, social, emotional, and/or behavioral problems. Some school administrators and counselors recognize the benefits of art education and place students at-risk in art education classes. Most often art therapy is not part of coursework within art education programs, so K-12 educators have minimal…
Descriptors: Art Education, At Risk Students, Art Therapy, Private Schools
Stace, Sonia M. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2014
Therapeutic doll making can hold diverse functions for clients in therapy, particularly for those clients who are working through complex trauma histories. Recent literature pertaining to the treatment of complex trauma suggests that talking treatments have their limits; supplementary therapeutic approaches that focus on sensory, physical,…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Psychotherapy, Toys, Creative Activities
Kimport, Elizabeth R.; Robbins, Steven J. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2012
Clay work has long been used in art therapy to achieve therapeutic goals. However, little empirical evidence exists to document the efficacy of such work. The present study randomly assigned 102 adult participants to one of four conditions following induction of a negative mood: (a) handling clay with instructions to create a pinch pot, (b)…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Art Materials, Psychological Patterns, Adults
Allison, Amanda – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2013
This viewpoint presents a reflection on a meaningful relationship that developed between a university art education department and a local art therapy studio. Such partnerships are desirable and mutually beneficial because of the significant interest many art educators have in the field of art therapy. The author, an art educator, describes the…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Therapy, Cooperation, Preservice Teacher Education
Johnson, Jeffrey; Salisbury, Helen; Deaver, Sarah; Johansson, Mark; Calisch, Abby – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2013
Simulation is used widely in medical and health professions educational programs. Standardized patients (SPs) are individuals who are trained to simulate specific symptoms or conditions as part of a structured learning experience with students. In this qualitative, phenomenological study the researcher interviewed 8 first-year graduate art therapy…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Immigrants, Graduate Students
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
Naff, Kristina – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2014
Cumulative trauma is relatively undocumented in art therapy practice, although there is growing evidence that art therapy provides distinct benefits for resolving various traumas. This qualitative study proposes an art therapy treatment framework for cumulative trauma derived from semi-structured interviews with three art therapists and artistic…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Trauma, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews
Robb, Megan – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2014
Multicultural competence is essential to contemporary art therapy practice. Current education standards require that culturally sound theories and practices be taught along with self-awareness, but there is little research on the effects of such training in art therapy. The current study examined data from the Multicultural Awareness, Knowledge,…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Multicultural Education, Graduate Students
Packman, Wendy; Kelley, Elizabeth; Rudolph, Brittany; Long, Janet; Wallace, Jo; Hsu, Melanie; Carmack, Betty J.; Field, Nigel – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2017
This study examined the relationship among projective drawings and mental health symptomatology to determine if projective drawings provide clinical utility in pet bereavement. Projective drawings, standardized questionnaires, and clinical interview results were collected from 33 adults grieving the loss of a pet. Drawings were coded into a…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Adults, Grief, Death