Quiz

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Quiz 10Put your name, ID, Quiz 1 on top of
card. Student next to you scores it, signs card
at bottom and writes your score at bottom right
corner of card.CLOSE BOOKS AND NOTES

• T/F Immediate effect of journal writing is a
  channel of self-expression making the writer
  accountable for, or allows the writer to take
  solid ownership of, feelings as abstract thoughts
  become tangible on paper. Page 197
• T/F Siegel, used art therapy with cancer
  patients and discovered that selecting the color
  blue was associated with happiness and
  joy. Page 211

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Chapter 11Art Therapy

• Draw me how you feel.
• - Sharlene Gin

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What isart therapy?

• Art therapy is described as the creative use of
  art to provide for
• nonverbal expression and
• communication
• through which to foster self-awareness and
  personal growth.

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Goals of art therapy

• Art therapy is recognized for its many
  therapeutic effects on aspects of
• mental
• physical
• spiritual, and most notably
• emotional well-being.

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Goals of art therapy

• to provide a means for strengthening the ego
• to provide a cathartic experience
• to provide a means to uncover anger

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Goals of art therapy

• to offer an avenue to reduce guilt
• to facilitate impulse control and
• to help patients/clients use as a new outlet
  during incapacitating illness.

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Clinical uses of art therapy

• veterans (PTSD)
• anorexics
• criminals
• abused children

• young children
• college students
• cancer patients
• chronic pain

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Illustrative Themes

• draw yourself
• draw a fantasy animal
• draw a house
• draw an expression of anger/fear
• draw a healing image of you

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Application AssignmentWrite your answer on the
back of your 3 x 5 card.

• T/F Anyone experiencing the signs and symptoms
  of perceived stress, not just cancer patients,
  can participate in and receive the therapeutic
  benefits of art therapy.
• They get these benefits by the release of pent-up
  emotions and achievement of a greater sense of
  personal awareness based on an objective look at
  or interpretation of the art work.
• Page 213