Chelsie Vogel. Assignment: Sentence Outline. Trs 3312 Sec

Trauma is one of the many issues facing children of all ages today. Trauma can be defined as any negative experience that causes a child psychological or emotional stress or damage. Exposure to trauma can hinder development in many areas for children, including brain development, social development, and emotional development. The purpose of this study was to determine what impacts trauma-informed care practices had on students in a second grade classroom. Throughout the study all students had access to a calm corner, which is a place they could go if they were feeling overwhelming emotions. Students participated in daily morning community meetings. Students were also taught direct

According to Cathy Malchiodi, an educator in the discipline, “Art therapy, an approach used in the treatment of trauma reactions, is often a primary form of therapy with children who are recovering from abuse, and neglect or are witnesses to family violence” (2). When these patients use art therapy to help them forget, the art that they create has their pain reflected onto it. When children were abused at some point in their life, they look at their abuser as a different person. They think of their abuser as a monster or a demonic-looking creature. When they draw their abuser, they draw a monster with sharp teeth or claws with piercing eyes. This is what the children, or adolescents, picture their attacker

Cathy Malchiodi observes the pattern for the use of art expression in helping individuals to express crisis and trauma through imagery. The therapeutic benefit of nonverbal communication

In addition, ART has an inherent advantage in that it is a short term but intense form of psychotherapy. In a military culture that puts a high value on self-reliance, it is unlikely that veterans would be receptive to long term psychotherapy because they would likely view their participation in a long-term therapy as a sign of weakness. They are much more likely to be receptive to an intense, short-term therapy because they would view it as a quick fix to a simple

Childhood is a time for playdates and learning, a time for big dreams and imaginary adventures. Safety and security should not be questions that linger in uncertainty. However, this is not the case for many children across the globe. Thousands of children from all walks of life each day are faced with unspeakable horror and must deal with the resulting trauma from then on. However, in children, managing this trauma takes a different toll on the mind and heart than it does in adults. While the type of trauma may vary in pervasiveness across countries, trauma occurring in childhood has the ability to cause long term damage to the growing neurological functioning in the brain and negatively influence children’s spiritual development, wounding

The use of art therapy after a disaster is an emerging approach to dealing with trauma. Disaster can result from natural events, manmade events, personal events, or a combination of any of these. Adults, families, and communities go through considerable suffering during disaster and deal with many trauma related symptoms and issues. Children experience trauma in dissimilar ways and are usually helped the least. Adult treatment procedures, in some respects, are similar to those for children. However, they have distinctions. Group therapy has been found beneficial for all survivors. Art therapy for adults,

My senior art therapy capstone class gave me the tools not only to understand my personal art making process, but the benefits of artistic creation for other individuals as well. Through this final project, I was able to therapeutically process a traumatic event in my life and turn something negative into a positive light. Process-based art therapy highlights the educational and transformative properties of art making and natural creation.

Child therapy differs greatly from adult therapy in a way where in adult therapy, a person is expected to talk about their feelings while the therapist sits there to listen and take notes. With child therapy, there is no way to do that without the child getting bored about sitting still and talking about their feelings. According to child therapist Douglas Green, child therapy should be done in the language of play. Children are more expressive about their feelings and they grow a lot more when they are playing games, with toys, engaging in activities, through drawing, and some other forms of art (Green, 2012). In other words, the child will recover and grow more from the divorce of their parents or the death of their dog or family issues in general if they link up with a therapist and be able to express themselves by engaging in any type of play, than talking about their feelings. By doing this, a therapist will get more feedback from the child instead of forcing them to just sit still and ask them questions. Play therapy, along with other methods specifically designed for child therapy, focuses on the child’s emotional well-being, it serves as a healthy way to express their concerns and feelings, and it helps improve their relationship with those around them especially their families.

· The Act for Kids Art Therapy works closely with young students who are abused and neglected. The team consists of dedicated professionals, which involves an Act for Kids psychologist, occupational therapist, speech pathologist and teachers. The art and play therapy sessions helps students to verbalise and further understand their feelings, for example 4-year-old Lacey Jane who was neglected by her mother showed complex behavioural and emotional issues. She joined the Act for Kids Early Education Program Kindergarten where she gained a sense of trust through safe learning after several months of intensive therapy (Act For Kids, 2014). Overall, the Act for Kids Art Therapy assists students who struggle

These traditional therapies help with client’s psychosocial needs, but often fail to take into account the victims broken relationship with their physical body. Dance is another universal language, similar to music therapy (Miles & Daniluk, 2002). This study found that a body-inclusive counseling approach is important when working with survivors of child trauma. It is only natural for music therapy to be used to treat survivors of childhood trauma.

This was the case of three young adolescence that have been strongly affected by sexual abuse. Most adolescents suffer from loss of self-identity. That’s why group art therapy helps adolescents to express themselves non-verbally, as they may not feel ready to express themselves when they first

Play therapy can be employed as an age-appropriate strategy in such situations. 'Play' is the child’s natural modality to communicate; it is their language (Vicario, Tucker, Smith-Adock, & Hudgins-Mitchell, 2013). It serves as a way to express and resolve experiences like trauma, which is difficult to describe in words. Traumatized children in play therapy are offered age-appropriate toys (e.g. puppets, sandbox with action figures, balls, clay, paint, rubber knives, rubber bats, blocks, dolls, trucks, plastic eating utensils and other kitchen items). The toys allow them to play out or “report their current internal state” (Sadock, Sadock, & Ruiz,

However, art therapy is typically the most in psychiatric wards, either individually or in groups. It is currently emerging is family art therapy, and used a lot in the education system, focusing on children who are learning disabled, mentally challenged, emotionally disturbed, socially disadvantaged. According to the AATA, art therapy is practiced in mental health, rehabilitation, medical, educational, forensic, wellness, private practice and community settings. Within these settings, art therapy can be applied to an extremely diverse client population in individual, couples, family, and group therapy formats. Art therapy is an effective treatment for people experiencing developmental, medical, educational, and social or psychological impairment. Other individuals who benefit from art therapy include those who have survived trauma resulting from combat, abuse, and natural disaster, along with individuals who have adverse physical health conditions such as cancer, traumatic brain injury, and other health disability, and finally individuals with autism, dementia, depression, and other disorders. Art therapy helps people resolve conflicts, improve interpersonal skills, manage maladaptive behaviors, reduce negative stress, and achieve personal insight. (AATA, 2013) No matter how it is used, all good art therapy leads to both education and growth. It can be beneficial

One-hundred and thirty-six children from the state of Florida were referred by parents, physicians and counselors as having traumatic stress symptoms. The children had experienced either Type 1 (usually a natural disaster, chronic illness or catastrophic event) or Type 2 (stressors resulting from long term ordeal, such as abuse and or neglect), trauma. 78 out of the 136 children scored moderate to severe in the pre-test for symptoms of trauma; those who scored mild levels of traumatic symptoms were eliminated from the study. From those a random sampling of 50 children qualified and random assignment was used to place them in experimental or control groups. Participants included 50 children (29 females, 21 males), ages four to ten years old. Of the 50

This paper was developed from findings of an extended study propagates combining art therapy with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) as effective treatment model for sexual abused children. It was chosen for this literature review as the paper focuses on the unique characteristics of art therapy that aid in making this an effective model (Pifalo, 2006; Pifalo, 2007). This paper extrapolates that sexually abused exhibit a wide range of symptoms that can be identified under the diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The article explains that art therapy capitalizes on a child’s natural ability to create, thereby facilitating rapport building, within a short period of time (Pifalo, 2007). The paper includes illustrations to provide evidence on how art therapy speeds affective processing Figure 1: “Inside/Outside Box” (Pifalo, 2007, p172). Through the shoe box example, it suggests that an ordinary shoebox with its “inside/out” aspect can provide a solid vehicle to express and contain feelings that are appropriate for sharing (Pifalo, 2007). The study further claims that by helping the child identify and express the emotion, art therapy facilitates coping skills. By combined effect of desensitising trauma and reconstructing the trauma narrative that child is able to process the traumatic experience without significant emotional distress (Pifalo, 2007).