tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41328618418635730582024-02-21T11:03:58.127-08:00 Art Education Blog of Emily FreimanMy professional and teaching experiences, including art instruction, Art Therapy and art process with individuals and groups, spans over three decades, going back to pre-masters practicums and internships towards my Master of Arts in Art Therapy, earned in 1994. Below, posing with my Art Therapist colleagues at Napa State Hospital, where I served from 1997-2012. EmilyAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05293055518806929490noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132861841863573058.post-64611548357505508142018-11-06T20:49:00.001-08:002018-11-06T20:55:27.641-08:00Invite the Muse Writing Group<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />EmilyAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05293055518806929490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132861841863573058.post-73356350635141052732016-10-12T07:49:00.002-07:002016-10-12T07:49:50.086-07:00My Art Therapy Philosophy & Experiences<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-hyphenate: none;">
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">How did I discover and pursue the field of art
therapy?</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">My first
exposure was in 1981, when curiosity drew me to a weekend seminar on Jungian
Art Therapy at Sonoma State University. I
experienced firsthand the strength of art as therapy in revealing the hidden
and powerful parts of myself. Something
clicked inside of me during my experience, pointing to my future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">It was to
be ten years before I acted on this dream, however. I patiently observed art therapy's slow move
towards being viewed as a respected and recognized career. Then, when family responsibilities eased up
and the time was right, I applied for and was accepted into the College of
Notre Dame's Masters in Art Therapy Program.
I took a pre-master's art therapist intern position under Al Friedman at
the Center for Youth here at the hospital in '93 and '94.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Art therapy
provides a holding environment for emotionally disturbed adolescents to express
themselves in a safe environment. For
ten months I observed adolescents at the
hospital scribble out frustrations connected to hormonal changes and their
mental illness. I witnessed them paint raw feelings of the pain of losing
family and being institutionalized. I
helped them collage and map inner body parts from life-sized body tracings; the
art clearly identified the body areas where abuse and violations took place. I
watched young clients shape clay into the forms of their own haunting inner
demons, put color to feelings of rage and helplessness connected to their
abuse, use pastel chalks to sketch out the delicate butterflies of their
fragile hope. The experience was sometimes frightening--and sometimes
wonderful. I learned that I could not
cure them, but I could supply tools of communication, and be a force of caring
that might support a change in their perception of a cruel to caring world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">After
graduating in 1994, I took a post masters position as art therapy intern under
Louise Salant at the Veterans Home in Yountville, to accrue hours for my<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">ATR--Art
Therapy Registration. Working with
disabled seniors, some of who suffered from mental illness, was challenging and
rewarding work. My Yountville experience
led me to be hired by three junior colleges to teach art classes to disabled
seniors. I did this for two years, while
waiting patiently for full-time art therapist positions to open up. I then
applied and was hired at Napa in September 1997.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">2. Population at Napa State Hospital</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">. I worked in
Program One, Unit T7, at Napa State Hospital with developmentally disabled,
adult male sex offenders with forensic backgrounds. Many of the clients’
placements there were an alternative to jail, to become competent to stand trial
for their crimes; some would never achieve this due to their developmental
disability. Certain clients had speech impediments and difficulty
verbalizing and being understood. With
this population the problems included aggressive behavior, obsessive compulsive
disorder, borderline personality disorder, impulse control. Their crimes included rape, incest, child
sexual abuse, voyeurism, public exposure, foot fetishism, assault and battery,
grand theft, and sexual perpetration or victimization. I primarily used art therapy in the context of
treatment for the clients’sex offenses and substance abuse addictions; as a
support to verbal processing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">3. Goals of Art Therapy for clients in forensic
settings include opportunities to:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--break
through client denial<b> </b>and<b> </b>offer a non-threatening means of
getting information from the client<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--provide
immediate gratification and control over environment as well as opportunity to
safely explore and alter feelings and fantasies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--explore
and select socially acceptable behaviors as alternatives to substance abuse,
violence or sex offender behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--use art
therapy in the context of the clients’sex offenses and substance abuse
addictions, as a support to verbal processing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--experience
a holding environment which can make pain bearable, and allow progress and
growth to proceed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--genuinely
express feelings and attitudes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--self-express
in a socially acceptable manner--leading to increased self-awareness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--solve
inner conflicts through inner work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--reveal/understand
client's own personal past history; putting behavior in a larger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">context, so
as to increase understanding of need to change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--experience
a less threatening avenue of expression than verbal therapy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">for
perpetrators, art therapy can be a work
through the internalized abuse and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">compensatory
mechanism of identifying with the perpetrator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--embark
upon a meaningful relationship with self and art therapist, thus enriching the quality
of life of each.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4. Example of an Art Therapy Interventions</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Focus
interventions on enlarging a part of an art therapy painting, to get inside the
symbol, to touch the deeper core of the problem. Ask, "Can you take this symbol here,
open it up, make it bigger, and show me what's inside? Do another painting of just that thing. Now, open that one up, make it larger, and
show me what's inside that one." What
can be revealed are deep, hidden feelings, which, once shared, have less of a
charge or control over the client's behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5. What is my philosophy of art therapy?</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tolstoy
said, "Art and only art can cause violence to be set aside.”</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A major
factor in the placing of clients at Napa State Hospital is the inability of the
client to control behavior, thus becoming a danger both to self and to others.
The client is separated from the community through the consequence of
his violent or out of control actions, and lacks the cultural controls over
self that are necessary to interact safely in society. This issue of safety
--of client and community--must be addressed first and foremost, at any
psychiatric or forensic institution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6. What are the benefits and applications of art
therapy</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--Art
therapy can increase the safety of both client and staff. Violent and mentally<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">disturbed
patients in forensic settings such as NSH can find artmaking a valuable tool for
making peace-first with self, then community. It can be a tool that mirrors antecedent
behaviors to oncoming violent behavior, a window on monitoring the emotional
states of the client; a recidivism predictor--potential for dangerous behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--Art
therapy can support the existing diagnoses and alert staff to changes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--Pre/post
art therapy intervention testing can measure client's general progression of
wellness and improvement over time. Outcome measured by behavior changes in
client over time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--Art as a
second language that communicates a variety of information about client<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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creative process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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EmilyAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05293055518806929490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132861841863573058.post-70700385973665886992016-08-15T09:24:00.001-07:002021-05-21T12:51:36.580-07:00Art as Therapy With Bev<p style="text-align: center;">
Art as Therapy With Bev: Coping With Loss; Improving Memory and Brain Function<br />
Well, I feel like I'm back in the (Art Therapist) saddle again. For weeks I have been preparing for, and finally gave, a two and a half-hour session with a lovely 79-year-old woman, Bev, who wanted a painting lesson. I had put an ad in the Napa Register online, advertising painting lessons, and Bev called me up one day, in response to the ad. She was pleased in hearing that I was an Art Therapist as well as a painting instructor. I could tell, talking to her, that she was experiencing memory and verbal expression challenges. In speaking with her on the phone, she would guess or substitute a phrase that was close to what she was trying to communicate, instead of being able to remember the exact phrase. I could guess her meaning much of the time. She told me she suffered from peripheral neuropathy, and that the doctors were still testing her for causes. I put things on hold for a while, due to being busy, and she called me back a month or so later, with one phone call in between. At first she wanted to drive to my house for the lesson and told me that she, accompanied by her daughter, had even practiced driving the route, one day, to my home studio. We later settled on my coming to her house for the art lesson; I felt this was the best option for success. Bev was holding on to her independence and capabilities, and the ability to drive, almost fiercely. She told me that, in the interim, she had taken a fall, so I felt that the lesson at her house would prove to be the safest option. I also knew I would be using my learned Art Therapist skills, as well as artistic guidance skills and intuition. And it helped that she and I had a good feeling, a rapport, you might say, for each other. She was willing to have me over. My background includes providing art materials and working with seniors in various environments: those in Alzheimer's units, retirement homes, nursing facilities, as well as independent, active seniors in local senior centers.</p>
I found Bev to be talkative, alert, eager, helpful and enthusiastic. She told me she had lost her husband a dozen years ago, and her 10-year-old cocker spaniel just recently, a great loss for her: he died in her arms while on the way to the vet. She also mentioned a thirty-pound weight loss over the last few years, without trying, she said. For her, the act of painting was therapeutic, in an emotional sense. She showed me a small acrylic painting of yellow daisies on a white background and said that it had been a difficult piece for her to do, and she was proud of her accomplishment. <br />
I sensed that Bev needed to feel successful with the lesson. She recalled that in the past when working on an art project, she might "work 'till midnight". This revealed her motivation. Bev described
herself as energetic and athletic, as her whole family was, her three
daughters, who live in the area, included. My desire for the lesson to be successful for Bev had some factors I knew I needed to keep in mind, simplicity and low frustration levels being a couple of them. She mentioned she would like to paint a red barn, using acrylics. I printed out a few photos of red barns in different settings, as well as samples of other landscapes, florals, and a seascape. Bev took her time looking at each one and asked me to help her choose one that might be easy enough for her to do well. I showed her an evening late sunset silhouette, fairly simple, but then I remembered her red barn idea. She settled on one of the red barn images, the most straightforward one, with a few trees in the background, an interesting sky, and grass in the foreground. Bev frowned at the gray skies of my barn choices, so we decided to change some of the elements in the photo: a blue rather than gray sky, green leaves on the bare trees, and greener grass in the foreground. <br />
Since Bev wanted to feel successful at this painting endeavour, I decided to paint alongside
her, so she could watch me, and practice techniques. I noticed that painting flat and curving lines were a challenge for her, as well as knowing when to stop, look at the work with reflection, see the entire picture and comparing the elements together. The barn, I noticed, appeared to have had seen a few decades, as she also had; it shadowed her own life journey and where she is at this moment in time, I thought. Bev was happy with the results and let me photograph her and the work. I will make and print a blank notecard of the painting, and send it to her. I hope to work with her further.<br />
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<br />EmilyAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05293055518806929490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132861841863573058.post-42331032732471378612014-01-13T23:26:00.005-08:002021-05-21T12:54:14.523-07:00Definition of Art Therapy<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span><span style="color: blue;">A</span>RT THERAPY: DEFINITION</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span></span><span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ART THERAPY IS A Human Services Profession that utilizes
art media, images, the creative art process, and patient/client responses to
the created products as reflections of an individual’s abilities, development,
personality, interests, concerns and conflicts.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Art Therapy practice is based on knowledge of human developmental and
psychological theories, which are implemented in the full spectrum of models of
assessment and treatment.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This includes
educational, psychodynamic, cognitive, transpersonal, and other therapeutic
means of achieving the following: reconciling emotional conflicts, fostering
self-awareness, developing social skills, managing behavior, solving problems,
reducing anxiety, aiding reality orientation, and increasing self-esteem.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Art Therapy is an effective treatment for the
developmentally, medically, educationally, socially, or psychologically
impaired.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is practiced in a wide
variety of settings, including mental health, rehabilitation, medical,
educational and forensic institutions. Populations of all ages, races, and
ethnic backgrounds are served by Art Therapists, in individual, couples, family
and group therapy formats.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></p>
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EmilyAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05293055518806929490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132861841863573058.post-16346711899787205032014-01-13T23:26:00.002-08:002017-10-27T10:01:52.923-07:00Art Therapy at Hope Resource Center NapaI facilitated Art Therapy Services once a month at Hope Resource Center, the day facility on Second Street in Napa. This was in 2014-15. Nancy Chesley was the coordinator of this program; she called me up one day, out of the blue, and asked for my assistance in bringing what she considered a viable form of intervention-art as therapy-to the population that used the facility. She had experienced firsthand the power of art as therapy, to heal the soul and promote self-integration. Over a period of a year and a half I held ten groups with the migrant population that streamed through; it included a mixed cultural and age population. Participants gave me written permission to use and share their art, with promise of keeping their identities confidential. The participants were, for the most part, receptive to creating visuals and symbols to relate their personal experiences, and share the art and words with each other in temporary community, a huge step for this population. I was grateful for the opportunity to get to know them, their stories, and understand their dilemma. This experience gave them a face and a solid identity. Too long the homeless have been invisible.<br />
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EmilyAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05293055518806929490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132861841863573058.post-75814585667021439852013-03-05T18:43:00.003-08:002021-05-21T12:56:33.969-07:00The Art of Art Therapy<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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Therapists
incorporate art therapy into the daily teamwork through watching and
analyzing art behaviors, art products, and the client’s communications.
The Art Therapist, an integral part of the treatment team, formulates
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therapists are trained to use their acquired art skills/expertise, combined
with extensive training in psychology, psychotherapy, and Art Therapy, to
facilitate the art-making process with the client, which, ideally, will promote
his well-being.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The Art Therapist creates the format of a structured, non-threatening environment,
whose boundaries facilitate client expression and reflection of inner
conflicts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Art Therapist sets aside
his/her own issues and vocalizations, creating a sense of stillness in order to
glean out symbolic and aesthetic content of the client's artwork.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, encouraging the client to reflect on
their artwork helps them connect to and process prior unconscious feelings,
emotions, and behaviors. During art therapy, rules and boundaries often shift to
accommodate each client’s changing physical and emotional abilities<b>.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is called “Prescriptive Art”. The list
includes pencils, pens, colored pencils, markers, crayons, collage materials,
oil pastels, chalks, acrylic paints, watercolors, clay. For instance, a client
may be given a pencil in the beginning, which allows a sense of comfort and
control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, paints may be
introduced, and later, clay, as we observe and ascertain the client’s readiness
to handle/explore wider boundaries and flowing or "messy" media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are trained to sense when the client is
ready to move to the next media level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Certain clients would benefit from letting go of certain defenses
(depending on their diagnosis and treatment goals) and may be encouraged to try
a less confining media at the beginning.</span><br /><div class="WordSection1"><br />
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therapy may serve as a tool in designated groups that focus on issues such as: </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">meditation/relaxation </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page; mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">alcohol and chemical dependency </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">men & women's issues
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">sexual identity issues</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">multicultural issues sexual/physical/emotional
abuse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">sex offender treatment </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">grief & loss<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">learning disabilities</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">behavioral reinforcement and specific mental
illnesses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">eating disorders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> What
Art Therapy is Not:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Many
clinicians use art in therapy; anyone can learn interpretation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, this is not art therapy.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Facilitating
Arts & Crafts or even Arts classes, although they can be rehabilitative, is
not art therapy, as the facilitators generally do not have the extensive
training in psychology, art, and art therapy to present art as a therapeutic
tool.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Art
Therapists do not apply meaning to a piece of client artwork without connecting
extensively with the creator. The significance of colors and symbols cannot be
generalized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An Art Therapist can work with
and process the artwork with the client, connecting it to his/her<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>behaviors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Art Therapist’s Goals for Clients:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Curriculums
should be designed around the needs and abilities of the clientele, and their
present issues. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Therapeutic
goals are to encourage, clarify and extend associations and ideas without
imposing personal projections, participating in the process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Art
therapy works with unconscious content to facilitate the expression of emotions via
metaphor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>("A picture is worth a
thousand<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>words".)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Art
Therapist uses images and imagery as a healing process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Verbal
association is used<b> </b>in conjunction with non-verbal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Benefits of Art Therapy</span> </h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Art
Therapy can help a client become an objective viewer of his/her out-of-control
behaviors, thus imbuing a sense of power.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The
client may experience improved avenues of communication, an increase of coping
skills, elevated self-esteem, and improved self-understanding. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The
artwork may reveal mental processes, side effects of medication, and/or emotional
states. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The
art-making process can represent aspects of behavior, such as antecedent
triggers to behavioral changes.</span></div>
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</span>EmilyAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05293055518806929490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132861841863573058.post-17020778851471290302012-12-04T17:35:00.004-08:002013-03-05T18:45:36.223-08:00Welcome to my Art Therapy Blog! <h2 style="text-align: center;">
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This is a flyer of the <span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">A</span>rt Process Experiential: "Art From the Inside Out". Art Therapist Colleague Sandra and I presented to artist members at General Meeting of the Napa Valley Art Association, in May of 2011.</h3>
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