Art Therapy Quiz 1

1787 Goethe

"We ought to talk less and draw more. I, personally, should like to renounce speech altogether and, like organiz nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches." German poet, novelist, and scientist

Art remains

*pictures can be read after their completion *gestures are only seen when they are made *words must be heard when spoken *art persists through time, controls time, and can overcome it's passage

What art therapy is not

-A filling of time with activity Even if its art or uses art materials -Educational creating This includes teaching techniques, focus on skill

Key Points

-Art Therapy provides the visual for the client's life, trauma, fears, successes, ideas, thoughts, beliefs, history, experiences and reality. -Art Therapy provides a means to remove what is inside in a metaphorical and tangible way in order to allow processing, distance and healing.

Doing AT- framework

-meet the person where they are at -freedom in expression -stage -> space -expression: skill, intentiveness, freedom, successes (healthy) -you are not the fixer -looking and learning; no critique, something deeper, meaningful relation, material use and response -assessment, Diagnostic Drawing Series, varieties of way of assessing -goals to work towards

Frame work

-setting needs to be supportive, space needs to be inviting -team and coworkers need to be supportive and people art sometimes very critical -think about space in a larger setting

Art therapists need to have

1. A deep understanding of art and the creative process 2. Understanding of psychology and psychotherapy

Teaching happens in art therapy

1. Clients need to understand HOW to use a material or manipulate tools -If art therapists don't know art and have their own technical skills, they are not able to adequately help clients in this way -The result is frustration that is unnecessary 2. The teaching has a direct impact on the client's therapy

Ways art therapy helps

1. reduces stress and anxiety 2. communicate w/o words 3. improves memory 4. process grief 5. express emotions 6. improve fine motor skills 7. improve self-esteem and confidence 8. brings JOY

June, 1969

Ad hoc committee: Bob Ault, Charles Anderson, Sandra Graves Kagin, Myra Levick, Elinor Ulman, Don Jones, Felice Cohen University of Louisville American Art Therapy Association by laws were passed and AATA was born

Visual Elements

Art involves the whole person Our thinking is visual Expressions What's inside moves out Art is flexible and versatile

Two Basic elements

Art itself has a healing nature All humans have an ability to create with art media

The Client's art

Art materials Art Process Art Object Client

Adrian Hill

Artist Hospitalized for TB, wanted to create art Saw the benefit for patients Wrote a book and began to facilitate the use of art in this way

Edith Kramer

Austrian Artist, fled Prague after WW2 Founded an art therapy graduate program at NYU in 1973 and taught there until 2005 as an adjunct while also teaching at GWU in D.C. Lowenfeld influenced Employed in 1951 to work with children Well published The inherent PROCESS of art making is transformative Art has a role on the therapeutic process and creating is important even afterward

Three way system of interchange

Client -> Therapist -> Art Object

Edward Adamson

Expanded on Hill's approach Introduced art to patients in long term therapy in British mental hospitals "non-interventionist" art therapy Create art in a space without comment of judgment from others just for self-expression Psychological treatment happened outside of this space Collected over 100,000 piece of art made by patients

where is education now?

Expression, arts, and emotional development Versus the standardized test SEL, therapeutic day schools, mental health days, hand-served learning

Expressive Therapies

Genuine integration of creative arts therapies use in a psychotherapeutic and/or counseling session Multi-modal

Art

Is and has been the language of humanity from the beginning of man's marked history Has been used for communication throughout our timeline Has given evidence of man's existence Has held the truths and secrets of man Has marked man's rise and fall

Art as Therapy

Kramer

Training and Professionalism

Master's Programs -Undergraduate preparation >Art >Psychology

Goal of the art activity

Must be THERAPY

Art Psychotherapy

Naumberg

Montessori, Cizek, Lowenfeld

Progressive educationalists were convinced that creative experiences in art were vital to healthy emotional development. Children needed to learn in more direct, personally involving ways... Art afforded this. Drawing and painting naturally - this is children's language! Self-identification achieved through personal expression.

Margaret Naumberg

Psychologist Free Association used to release the unconscious In the mid-1940s began calling her work Art therapy Result in work = symbolic speech, encouraged patients to interpret and analyze their art Studied with John Dewey and Maria Montessori Something of a rebel Scholarly researcher Experienced both Jungian and Freudian Analysis Relied on artist's interpretations and associations

Prinzhorn

Published in 1922 Art historian and military trained medical scientist in the war Merged the two Collected art (over 5000) of patients who suffered from schizophrenia to depression

Art Therapist is the choice

Remember the GOAL... The INTENT When the need is for psychological understanding, social or emotional expression, interpersonal and intrapsychic dynamics,

The INTENT

Remember the goal...

Art interrupts our way of seeing. We see from a new angle and reassess what we thought we knew.

Roger Arguile

Distinction from art lesson

Sometimes are very specific and are obviously therapeutic Other times they may be more about the experience of art making as a TOOL to use beyond sessions. This may feel less therapeutic but the art therapists GOAL in this has an INTENTION beyond making.

Elinor Ulman

Started the Bulletin of Art Therapy (Bernard Levy helped) Studied with Margaret Naumberg ART AS THERAPY stresses the Intrinsic therapeutic potential in the art-making process and the central role the defense mechanism of sublimation plays in this experience

The Basics

The Art Part -materials The Therapy Part -Psychodynamics, pathology, treatment planning, development The Framework -Setting, physical conditions, psychological conditions, -Doing Art Therapy

Creative therapies

The actual modalities of the arts Rooted in various arts Rooted in theories on creativity

What is an Art Therapist?

The art therapist is a specialist who combines the qualification of being a competent artist with specialized skills in the field of psychotherapy and education.

DIBS

The timeline of the therapy and work of play therapy and psychotherapy in DIBS is aligned to the start of the real work and foundation of art therapy. This is important to apply and recall from this chapter of reading as we navigate Dibs. Language is historically based.

Therapy Part

Transference- can happen because you are building a relationship -AT draws on and exposes the innermost of the soul -intimate understanding and relationship (ART IS VULNERABLE) vulnerable process of thinking and responding -art never lies, intimate understanding

Sublimation in art therapy

Understanding gained through the art expression so that one negative or unacceptable impulse, action, or idealization is transformed into a more appropriate or socially acceptable response or behavior - - the ultimate goal being permanent of one behavior for another

Art therapists

Use a clinical eye and an attuned ear in sessions, individual, group, and family Art therapy groups - self in relation to others Art education class - collective learning skills

Art in Psychotherapy

Use projective drawing series adjunctively and in assessment to support their clinical work DDS - Barry Cohen HTP HFD Capitalize on the ability of imagery to bypass defenses

Critical clinical questions

Who is the client/participant/user? What is the art therapy for? -Assessment and treatment are determined through clinical skills, not education or fun

Creative process driven

art as therapy

Ulman

art is, "a means to discover both self and the world, and to establish a relation between the two." "ART = the meeting ground of the outer and the inner world."

Symbolic communication focused

art psychotherapy

Whole person, visual thinking, expression, possibility

focus on the person as a whole, how are they visually thinking? How do they express themselves? Therapy provides clients w possibilities (different way of looking at things)

Recreational and activity

instruction and introduction to activities to use in life for self management and self-esteem

Occupational Therapy

life skills or activity based ++ Task analysis

physical space

materials and layout in important -not great in certain situations (therapeutic day school) to have all materials out -goal is to work yourself out of art therapy (can't always use crayons)

Art is a Container

quote 1

First you are a client then you are a therapist

quote 3

aesthetic seperation

the product doesn't have to look good or pretty, art therapy is not about something pretty its a healing process

psychological component

what are they saying without saying it

Goal of therapy

work yourself out of AT, can't always use crayons, push them out of their comfort zone carefully to learn more

Art Part

you need to understand the art and creative process before evaluating someone -observing creative process -meet a client where they are at to understand what frustrates them -materials-> educate-> Art is a container -we take what we know ourselves -watching body language (form- content language)