Art Therapy @ KFMC.

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Art Therapy _at_ KFMC.

• Awad Alyami, Ph.D. Saudi-ATR-BC.
• Associate Professor of Art Education/Therapy
• King Saud University
• Supervisor of The Art Therapy Unit, CRC Dept.,
  Rehabilitation Hospital
• King Fahad Medical City (KFMC), Riyadh

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What is Art Therapy?

• The American Art Therapy Association defines art
  therapy as follows
• Art Therapy is based on the belief that the
  creative process involved in the making of art is
  healing and life-enhancing. Through creating and
  talking about the process of art making with an
  art therapist, one can increase awareness of
  self, cope with symptoms, stress, and traumatic
  experiences, enhance cognitive abilities, and
  enjoy the life-affirming pleasures of artistic
  creativity. " AATA. 2008"

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What Does it Offer to patients _at_ kfmc?

• Self Expression.
• Raise self-esteem.
• Build self confidence.
• Coping Skills.
• Adjustment Strategies.
• Recreational outlet.
• Family adjustment avenues.
• Creative problem solving cognitive skills.
• Physical awareness and sole searching (Examine
  feelings about what is happening to them)

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What are the populations?

• Adults with psychosocial and physical
  disabilities, and as a result of illness or
  treatment side effects.
• Stroke, SCI, TBI, and Pediatric oncology with
  patients who experience psychosocial problems and
  physical discomfort.
• Family members with adjustment problems to a
  family member with cancer or/and disability.

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Qualifications and Experience

• A team of clinically trained art therapists.
• A team with a unique local and international
  experience with pediatric and adult
  rehabilitation.
• Full support of Professional International Art
  Therapy Organizations.
• At KFMC, extensive training for 12-18 months as
  OJT.
• No local accreditation body recognizing art
  therapist yet.(in discussion with SCFHS).

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Evidence and Supportive materials
Spinal Cored Injury
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Evidence and Supportive materials
TBI
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Evidence and Supportive materials

• Assessment through art
• Children
• Pain.
• Loss of hair.
• Separation .
• School.
• Long hospitalization.
• fatigue.
• Fear.
• Adjustment problems.
• Mental physical side affects.
• anxiety.

Pediatric Onc.
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Printer-friendly version From OncoLog, December 2003, Vol. 48, No. 12
Art Therapy Helps Children Affected by Cancer
Express Their Emotions by Karen Stuyck
Example of Programs
Simple lines, bright colors, and primitive shapes
give the artwork a decidedly childlike quality,
but the scenes the young artists portray are
disturbinga floating house, a person jumping
from a burning airplane, a sinister bee that
drinks blood. The art that these young patients
and children of patients create is a window into
the less-conscious mind, said Estela A. Beale,
M.D., a child and adult psychiatrist and
associate professor in the Department of
Neuro-Oncology at The University of Texas M. D.
Anderson Cancer Center.The premise behind art
therapyusing a young patients art for a
psychotherapeutic purposeis that creating
pictures allows children to express what is
uppermost in their minds more genuinely and
spontaneously than they are apt to do in a
discussion with the therapist. What is really
important is to let the children express
themselves without any influence from an adult,
Dr. Beale said.Pictures help the therapist
understand the childrens perceptions and
feelings about what is happening to them and
explore possible alternatives to solving
problems, Dr. Beale said.Sometimes the childs
art expresses this information quite graphically,
but often the young artists thoughts and
feelings are concealed, disguised, or expressed
metaphorically, Dr. Beale said
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Evidence and Supportive materials
_at_KFMC Rehab
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Academic Qualifications

• Qualified Art Therapists
• MA in art therapy or a higher education Diploma
  in Art Therapy. Not otherwise.
• Experience and extensive training in medical
  rehabilitation in an accredited health institute.
• Not Qualified Art Therapists
• Psychology
• Art Education
• Artists
• Occupational Therapists
• K-12 teachers.
• They may be able to do arts but not art therapy

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• The Rehabilitation Hospital
• KFMC
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• Teamwork
• Thank You