ART THERAPY

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ART THERAPY

• Presented by Group 2
• Jennifer Nimmo, Lisa Elsberry, Sherri Weissman,
  Jenna Klareich, Chelsea Seidman, Trista Perez,
  April Majoy, and Camilla Aparicio

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Types of Art Therapy

• Sculpting and Ceramics
• Painting and Drawing
• Photography
• Arts and Crafts
• These are the four types of art that we are going
  to discuss today.

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Definition

• Art Therapy is a human service profession which
  offers an opportunity to explore personal
  problems and potentials through verbal and
  nonverbal expression
• Another goal is to develop physical, emotional
  and/or learning skills through therapeutic art
  experiences.

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How Does it Help??

• used to help people with physical and emotional
  problems by using creative activities to express
  emotions.
• provides a way for people to come to terms with
  
• emotional conflicts
• increase self-awareness
• express unspoken and often
• unconscious concerns about their
  illness
• and their lives.

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Benefits

• Self-discovery
• Personal fulfillment
• Empowerment
• Relaxation and stress relief
• Chronic stress can be harmful to both mind
  
• and body.
• Stress can weaken and damage the
• immune system, can cause insomnia and
• depression, and can trigger circulatory
  
• problems
• Symptom relief and physical rehabilitation.

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It is a two part process

• 1. creation of art
• 2. discovery of its meaning
• Patients are encouraged to visualize, and then
  create, the thoughts and emotions that they
  cannot talk about.

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Who Can Benefit??

• Its for everybody.
• Art therapists work with people of all ages
  individuals, couples, families groups and
  communities.
• Managers and staff under pressure
• People who are generally stressed and overworked
• People with mental health problems
• People with severe learning difficulties
• Children and young people who have problems
  conforming in school and with personal problems
  at home
• People who feel they are problem free but would
  likethe opportunity to explore issues within
  themselves

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Building Self EsteemThrough Art Therapy

• With clay in her hands, S. can explore and
  process her thoughts and fears, explains
  Mireille Gronner, ceramicist and art therapist.
• Concentration and creativity are stressed with
  the feel of clay under ones fingertips

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Clay

• tactile immediacy and ability to touch feelings
  and emotions
• The story of what one woman did with a piece of
  clay..

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Our Art Therapy Experience

• Finger Painting
• Helped us grasp the idea of art as therapy
• Proved to be relaxing and extremely entertaining
• It seemed as though we lost
• ourselves in the project and
• forgot about lifes turmoil

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Painting and Drawing

• Topics
• Art Appreciation
• Painting/Drawing as a healing device
• Painting/Drawing to express emotions

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Art Appreciation

• A study has found that going to an art gallery
  can cut stress by more than half.
• City workers stress levels dropped by 45 after
  viewing paintings for 40 minutes
• Also, the cortisol in their saliva dropped by 32
  (normally takes 5 hours)

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Sunday in the Park By Georges Seurat
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Café Terrece By Vincent Van Gogh
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Water Lily Pond By Claude Monet
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Museums continued

• How to lower stress in an art museum
• The next time that you go to an art museum in
  order to relax try this
• Clear your mind
• Try to forget about everything else that is
  stressing you out
• Loose yourself in the painting
• Try to figure out what the artist was feeling
  when they created this painting
• Put yourself in the picture and imagine the world
  of the picture around you

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Painting/Drawing to Heal

• Over a period of four months, a study proved that
  art therapy helped alleviate 8 of the 9 symptoms
  in cancer patients
• Including pain, depression, poor appetite, and
  fatigue

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Psychiatric Patients

• The creative process of
• painting causes psychiatric
• patients inner pictures
• to become visible
• The pictures represent
• their disorders, as well as
• their development through
• the therapeutic process

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Bulimic Patients

• Painting is used in Integrative Painting
  Therapy
• Initial phase of the approach is helping patients
  learn to control, and ultimately normalize, their
  eating habits
• The Acting Out (or Conflict Awareness) phase,
  they try to cope with their disorder on a
  pictorial level
• Self Esteem is eventually stabilized
• By improving ones image of themselves through
  painting, they can then learn to appreciate their
  body

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Finally Painting to Express Emotions

• The creative process is used to induce relaxation
  and give expression to a persons deepest
  emotions
• Art is used as a less intimidating way, compared
  to receiving counseling, to express fears and
  emotions

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Movie Clip

• 50 First Dates
• starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore

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Expression cont

• Often abused children have no words to describe
  their experience, so painting is a way for
  therapists to help them heal
• Painting is also great for adults
• with quick defenses because
• it allows therapists to gain
• insights on their feelings without
• coming across as intrusive

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Expression cont

• Painting is a great way patients to talk about
  painful situations
• This is because they can discuss the painting as
  opposed to talking about themselves
• It helps to distance them from the harsh emotions
  they are dealing with

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Express Yourself

• Just to get you started
• Find a place that you can relax
• Your room, a balcony, at the pool, etc.
• Close your eyes and get in touch with how you are
  feeling
• Think of a way to express that feeling
• A picture, a collage, an abstract object
• Put your feelings onto the canvas

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Photo Therapy
There are always two people in every picture 
the photographer and the viewer
The camera can photograph thought

• a picture is worth a thousand words

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What is Photo Therapy?

• A type of art therapy
• Is an interrelated system of photo-based
  counseling techniques
• Used by trained mental health professionals as
  part of their therapeutic practice
• Helps clients consciously view their own insights
  in order to better understand and improve
  their life
• Can be used by any kind of trained counselor or
  therapist

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Who uses Photo Therapy?

• Helpful in multicultural, disabled,
  minority-gender, special-needs, and other
  similarly-complex populations
• Beneficial in diversity training, conflict
  resolution, divorce mediation, and other related
  fields
• Anyone can use photo therapy

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How does Photo Therapy work?

• Serves as natural bridges for accessing,
  exploring, and communicating about feelings and
  memories
• Gives "in-sight" in ways that words alone cannot
  convey
• During Photo Therapy sessions, photos are used
  and interacted with to illustrate thoughts and
  feelings between the therapist and client
• Relieves stress, anxiety, and everyday worries

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Types of Photo Therapy

• Digital pictures
• Family albums
• Optical illusions

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Pictures
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Optical Illusions
                              
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ARTS CRAFTS!
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Are you looking for stress relief?  No drugs, no
meditation? 

• Have you ever thought about taking up a craft? 
• In fact, doing a craft is a prescription for
  good health.  And more importantly you do not
  need to be good at the craft to benefit! 
• A craft can be any type of hand made project that
  you get satisfaction in doing
• For example
• bead work/ wood work
• knitting/ needle work
• making jewelry
• scrap booking
• candle making or
• any kind of decoration.

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Arts Crafts is described as an ideal way to

• Reconcile emotional conflicts
• Foster self-awareness
• Develop social skills
• Manage behavior
• Solve problems
• Reduce anxiety
• Increase self-esteem
• Crafts are an intellectual activity which helps
  to keep your brain healthy!!

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• Medical studies have shown that there are
  physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits
  from having an active interest in crafting.
• One study of 30 female heart patients reported in
  the American Journal Medical Association showed a
  significant decrease in heart rate, blood
  pressure, and perspiration rate while the
  subjects completed a simple craft project.
• Arts crafts provide a distraction from the
  pressures and stresses of everyday life.  When
  you're engaged in your craft project your mind is
  concentrating on the project, this stops you
  thinking about everyday problems. 
• There is a tremendous feeling of satisfaction
  when you have completed a craft project.  The
  final piece is all your own work.  It is good to
  have something tangible, something that you can
  hold and admire.
• Another major benefit is that it keeps your brain
  active - learning is important for keeping your
  brain "in shape".  The size and structure of the
  neurons in your brain and the connections between
  them actually change as you learn. 

Medicine is technical so when I bead I can be
creative and do whatever I want. Beading relieves
stress and it's also very fun. I can bead and
watch television at the same time without a
problem. Medicine is a lot more serious and
stressful. Someone's life is depending on you.
-Dr. Nadia Christensen
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References

• Integrative Painting Therapy
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• Eating Disorders
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• Painting What We See Within
• http//serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f03/web3
  /l1updegrove.html1
• Art as Therapy
• http//www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/A
  RT/2005/02/22/421aa81f6267f
• Art Therapy can reduce pain, anxiety, fatigue in
  cancer patients
• Canadian Press Newswire on January 1, 2006
• Written by Sheryl Ubelacker
• Art Therapy helps Children Communicate
• Star News on November 16, 2005
• Written by MJ Engel
• Gazing at Fine Art, Reduces Stress Levels
• The Vancouver Province on January 17, 2006
• Written by Tom Spears
• Clay
• http//www.vickyb.demon.co.uk/clay.html