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1. www.counselindia.com ART THERAPY By: Himanshi Singh Clinical Psychologist

2. www.counselindia.com "QUESTION"

3. Introduction Art therapy is based on the idea that the creative process of art making is healing and life enhancing and is a form of nonverbal communication of thoughts and feelings (American Art Therapy Association, 1996). Art therapy supports the belief that all individuals have the capacity to express themselves creatively and that the product is less important than the therapeutic process involved. The therapist’s focus is not specifically on the aesthetic merits of art making but on the therapeutic needs of the person to express.

4. ART & NEUROSCIENCE

5. Art therapist Vija Lusebrink (1990) observes that images are “a bridge between body and mind, or between the conscious levels of information processing and the physiological changes in the body”. Guided imagery , an experiential process in which an individual is directed through relaxation followed by suggestions to imagine specific images, has been used to reduce symptoms, change mood, and harness the body’s healing capacities.

6. He also notes that images are not just visual and include all sensory modalities— auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and somatosensory (touch, muscular, temperature, pain, visceral, and vestibular senses). Images are not stored in any one part of the brain; rather, many regions of the brain are part of image formation, storage, and retrieval.

7. Lets talk about Areas of art therapy

8. Sand therapy is an affordable method of helping a child grow up as a healthy, harmoniously developed personality. Classes with sand are held both in special classes and can be used in the free play activity of children. With the help of sand therapy, the child develops motor skills (large and small), imagination, can open up emotionally, etc. Classes with sand are conducted by: preschool teachers, elementary school teachers, psychologists, etc.

9. Kinesitherapy - dance movement direction. Through dance, movements, the child reveals his inner world to others. All activity is based on the relationship: the brain, emotions, movement. This technique is effective from an early preschool age. The elements of the methodology are introduced into the theatrical activities of preschool children, are actively used by speech therapists in group and individual lessons, as well as by physical education instructors. Puppet therapy is a method of knowing oneself through playing life situations with dolls. With older children, preparatory to school age, as well as with younger schoolchildren, we use making dolls ourselves, playing life situations.

10. Lets talk about CASE STUDY

11. A young woman came to therapy to explore her struggles with her family’s expectations for her after her graduation from college. She was the first person in her family to obtain a college degree and the first young woman to move out of the family home before marriage. Her parents had immigrated and had lived in the United States since their early 20s; the woman’s mother had not mastered English and was still very much involved in the customs and belief systems of her country. In her parent’s culture a woman had a lesser stature than a man and was expected to behave according to old world rules of feminine behavior. The young woman wanted to choose her male relationships independently, but her family’s influence created deeply ambivalent feelings in her. The therapist asked her to create a collage image of the demands of her culture to externalize the “problem- saturated story” and ascribe to this image all the positive and negative demands that had taken control of her life. The therapist then asked her to cut out from the image those traits that she wanted to keep and those she wished to discard. With the preferred traits, the woman made a collage that illustrated both her attachment to her family’s culture and the freedom to decide how she wanted to live. By visually separating the problem from her family and herself she was able to create an alternate definition of her life choices.