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Creative Therapies (Art and Play)
Published in Cathy Laver-Bradbury, Margaret J.J. Thompson, Christopher Gale, Christine M. Hooper, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2021
Margaret Josephs, Emma House, Sarah Holden, Loz Foskett
Creative therapy, particularly art therapy, differs from other psychological therapies, in that it is a three-way process between the client, the therapist and the image or artifact, offering a third dimension to the process. The art activity provides a concrete, rather than verbal, medium, through which the client can achieve both conscious and unconscious expression. It can be used as a valuable agent for therapeutic change.
Life Enrichment through Pattern and Routine
Published in Lisa D. Hinz, Beyond Self-Care for Helping Professionals, 2018
Following on the heels of Zentangle™ there has been a spate of coloring books targeted at adult audiences. These coloring books have much more intricate designs than those made for children, and adults are free to use markers or colored pencils to complete their drawings rather than standard children’s crayons. Coloring books are touted as stress relieving, meditative, mindful, calming therapy, color therapy, creative therapy, and art therapy. The coloring books clearly do not represent professional art therapy: The technique is not administered by a registered art therapist in controlled therapeutic conditions. However, it is likely that some of these activity books can be therapeutic, similar to the other ways of using lines and patterns as part of a meditative practice presented in this chapter. Becoming occupied with the ever-evolving designs can be a way to focus attention, or distract from other cares and concerns. Distraction is commonly cited as one therapeutic mechanism behind coloring (Forkosh & Drake, 2017) and is taught as an essential emotional regulation strategy (Liu & Thompson, 2017).
Arts and creativity for easing perinatal mental distress
Published in Elaine A Hanzak, Another Twinkle in the Eye, 2017
An article written by Danielle Leigh4 about ways in which art and creative therapy can help ladies suffering from postnatal depression reassures that this approach is about expressing your feelings through a therapeutic process – it is not about filling an art gallery. She states that it is a way to express hidden feelings and emotions that may be too overwhelming to deal with. ‘Art therapy helps to put them in perspective, and to press the “deflate” button simply by bringing them into conscious awareness.’ It offers an escape and relaxation from the daily chores, and if done in a group setting can help create new friendships.
Can Creative Writing, as an Add-on to Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder, Support Rehabilitation?
Published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2020
Kristine Tarp, Rikke Hellum, Anders Juhl Rasmussen, Anette Søgaard Nielsen
The present pilot study indicated that there was, indeed, a self-perceived rehabilitating impact of participation in the creative writing and reading exercises. The patients’ overall enthusiasm and gain from the workshop indicated that this kind of creative therapy can add new ways of improving rehabilitation after years of excessive alcohol use: by letting the patients focus on something positive, distracting their minds, making them feel part of a community, and helping them out of isolation and loneliness. Also, the participating therapist had seen potential in the patients she had not noticed before, coherence between people who were very different, and a potential in the workshop as stigma puncturing. As such, this might be a way of opening new doors to the patients’ resources and strengths, thereby improving rehabilitation.
Slowing dementia symptoms – a qualitative study on attitudes and experiences of general practitioners in Germany
Published in European Journal of General Practice, 2022
Julian Wangler, Michael Jansky
The interviews have shown that many GPs see great importance in dementia prevention and believe that they can play an effective part by their own intervention. Many GPs also attach considerable importance to (integrative) therapeutic measures alongside drug treatment. The interviews have, therefore, revealed a wide range of treatment strategies, particularly methodical treatment for co-morbidities, physical exercise and sport as well as physiotherapy and occupational therapy, cognitive training and creative therapy. The GP’s role as a guide through the health care system comes into play in arranging counselling and support services for patients and their relatives, therefore, contributing to their psychosocial stability.
Mental Health Recovery Through "Art Therapy": A Pilot Study in Portuguese Acute Inpatient Setting
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2019
Carlos Laranjeira, Clara Campos, Aida Bessa, Goreti Neves, Maria Isabel Marques
Given the complexity of this problem, psychiatric in-patients in the acute stage of their disease need different types of therapeutic programs to recover their mental health. Usually, they are submitted to systematic biological programs (namely psychopharmaceuticals), often considered a priority when compared to psychosocial programs (Van Lith, 2016). Among the different therapies that have been introduced in this context, “art therapy,” also named creative therapy, can complement the allopathic treatments, providing improvements in self-esteem and self-efficiency, distraction, and relief from concerns and negative thoughts (Caddy, Crawford, & Page, 2012; Stickley, Hui, Morgan, & Bertram, 2007).