Another way we can express or selves.

ART THERAPY

• Art therapy has been used with children because it is a natural language for most children and can be a valuable modality for expression of trauma, distress or loss.

• Children do not have the verbal capacity to articulate crisis and for those who have been violated or abused it is a way to communicate feelings and experiences without words.

ART THERAPY

• It reduces anxiety and helps children feel more comfortable with therapist.

• It may increase memory retrieval.• It may help children organize their narratives• It may prompt children to tell more than they would

during a solely verbal interview.

REASONS FOR INTRODUCING ART EXPRESSION IN THERAPY WITH CHILDREN

• Avoid imposing adult standards on children’s creative work

• Avoid making assumptions about content and meaning • It is important to understand the child’s history and the

context in which the picture was drawn to really understand the meaning of the drawing.

IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS IN ART THERAPY

• It helps the child to externalize thoughts, feelings, and experience through both art expression and story telling

• It helps the therapist to better understand the child and provide the best possible intervention on behalf of the child.

TALKING ABOUT THE ART DURING OR AT THE END OF THE SESSION IS IMPORTANT

• Have the child identify four colors and their related feelings.

• Draw a large ginger bread shaped person.• Identify a person in which you will like the

child to explore their feelings.• Have the child color in the person with the

different feeling identified colors based on their feelings for that person.

• Pay attention not only to the color but the placement of the color

COLOR CODED FEELINGS

• Draw and oval shape on a piece of paper• Ask the client what does it look like? If he

child does not guess and egg then the therapist should suggest that it is an egg.

• Explain that something is about to be born and asks the child to draw cracks on the egg.

• When the child draws the cracks, you ask the child what is to be born. If the child responds a chick the therapist should say this is a magic egg and anything you can think of can come out of it

EGG DRAWING

• You provide a new piece of paper and direct the child to draw his or her fantasy creation along with the pieces of broken eggshells.

• Finally you ask the child to color in their creation

EGG DRAWING CONT……

• What is it that you drew?• Does he or she seem to be near or far from

you.? Why do you feel that way?• Suppose that it is trying to go some where,

where do you think he or she is going?• If it were to meet something or someone on the

way, who would it encounter?• If it grew up how do you think it would change?• Does this remind you of anything?• What is it that it, he or she is desiring and what

gives you that idea?

POST DRAWING INTERVIEW (PDI)

• Draw a large oval on the paper• You need to explain that this is the

entrance to a cave.• Suppose you live here, what would you

see outside?• Confirm understanding of the directive,

then you should encourage them to proceed with drawing.

• If the child desires, the therapist should encourage the internal wall of the cave to be colored as well.

CAVE DRAWING

• Please tell me about your cave drawing?• What type of place is this and what did you

imagine it to be like?• Does the cave seem near or far from where

you are?• Does the cave seem warm or cool inside? Whys

does it make you feel that way• Would you like to life in this care? Please tell me

why?• What do you most like about this drawing? Why?• What do you least like about this drawing and

Why?

CAVE DRAWING PDI

• What sort of weather goes best with this cave (sunny or cloudy day etc..)

• If there is a wind blowing outside and in what direction left right top or bottom?

• Is someone coming into the cave who what might that be?• If the person who lives in the cave is going out where would

that person go to?• If you think this cave lacks or needs something what might it

be?• Does this drawing remind you of anything?• Was there anything difficult to draw here?

CAVE DRAWING PDI CONTINUED

• Scribble chaser• Draw the feelings in your head?• Draw yourself• Draw your family doing something

together?• Draw what your anger, depression or

fear look like?• Draw a person picking an apple from

a tree?• Grief: Where are you now? Collage?

ART THERAPY IDEAS

• Draw me a picture of you/family before the trauma happen

• Draw me a picture of you after the trauma

• Draw what your hurt looks like• Draw what you lost as a result of the

trauma• Draw out your nightmare• Draw what it is like when you

disclosed about abuse• Draw what happened

TRAUMA AND ART THERAPY TASKS

• What do you remember seeing, hearing or touching?

• Do you sometimes think about what happen when you don’t want to?

• Do certain sounds, sights or smells remind you of what happened?

• What would you like to see happen to the person who caused this situation?

• Do you ever think that it should have been you instead?

QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD BE ASKED

• Introduce your self in a picture• Draw a picture of the circumstances that

brought you here.• Draw about how you feel about being here.• Draw your addiction• Draw what happens when you are under

the influence• Draw and outline of the body and fill with

effects on the body (group activity).

ART THERAPY AND ADDICTION

• Draw the unmanageability of your addiction.

• Draw the effects of unmanageability and powerlessness on your family.

• Draw a family portrait• Draw the outline of a house. Outside

the house, draw the image that the family portrayed to others. Inside the house, draw the way the family really functioned.

• Draw a picture of what you never got as a child and still long for today

ART THERAPY AN ADDICTION

• See handouts

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