Art therapy in the familiar school environment is highly accessible, providing a vital service for children, young people and their families.
Art therapy for children can provide kids with an easier way to express themselves since children are more naturally artistic and creative.A young child is likely to be more comfortable initially expressing him/herself with some crayons and markers, for example, than he/she is going to be at ...
Art therapy for children: How it leads to change. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 11(2), 271-282.Waller, D. Art Therapy for Children: How It Leads to Change. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, SAGE Publication, (2006), 271-282...
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Welcome to Art Therapy! We explore creativity and the arts as a catalyst of healing and therapy. Art can be used for many wonderful things and this website was created with the intent of sharing concepts, ideas, activities, and much more. It explores art and creativity and how they affect...
For children with autism, art therapy can be particularly effective as many are strong visual learners and process information differently.
This article describes the setting up, running and evaluation of an outpatient group for impulsive children, which lasted for seven months. It explores the difficulties encountered in helping such children to relate more successfully, the importance of the art activities in containing the intense ...
It presents goals and expected effects for each art therapy program, as well as psychological theories and evidence for some contents. In addition, it contains detailed explanations of the preparation and the sequence of activities utilizing various real-life tools like paper and colored pencils. ...
the value of art for the pre-verbal child the preventative role of art therapy in schools. the development of imagination in 'hard to reach' and dyspraxic children the importance of working with the family and professional network in the different settings of health, social services, education ...