Redefining The Dual Process Model ( Dpm )

With the experience of art-making, people can reflect on the finished art products and art processes which can help increase insight, awareness of self and develop

What is art therapy and does it really work? When one thinks of a therapist and an artist you think of two

During the short six weeks of Art Therapy class I was surprised on all the positive things I learned in such short period of time. We covered different modalities in Art therapy which encouraged participants to be creative and make use of their imagination. For this intermodal Art experience paper I created a visual art poster that expressed my current feelings and emotions. I began to look for images that expressed my personal emotional state; I was surprised with what emerged from my visual art poster. It illustrated visual images of stress on one side to images of success on the opposite side. There was so much nonverbal expression in one piece of visual art, as it spoke for itself without words. As I contemplated the poster and its messages, I moved to a second modality, in response to the visual art poster I wrote a poem in response to the Art piece. The poem came about naturally; my feelings flowed into words which made me feel good about the visual art poster that I had created. As an inexperienced poetry writer I felt that my poem was not as good as an experienced poetry writer. However I still tried it, as I began to write I began to think of what message the visual art poster conveyed to me, including what emotions it provoked. Several questions came to mind, what were the visual images on the poster saying about me? And why did I create such piece? Author Malchiodi (2007) notes that “First, art expression is thought to be a form of visual language through which

Grief is often accompanied by feelings of anger, intense sadness, difficulty in engaging in happy memories, and obsession with the departed or with the situations surrounding the death of a loved one (Minuchin & Fishman, 2009). This is shown in the video “A Family Disrupted: Dealing with the Death of a Sibling”, when Lois cries uncontrollably and acts completely shocked and disconnected. The video also shows the effects of grief with Jerry, who feels angry and isolated, and often wishes to be alone. When an individual is grieving and cannot overcome the grief, it is important to seek a qualified therapist for help. Therapists will effectively tailor various therapeutic models to address the special needs of individuals or family members who are struggling with grief (Worden, 2010). To help the people who are grieving in this video, models like solution focused therapy are used.

Like everything else, there is a romanticized idea of art. A balcony overlooking Los Angeles/ New York/ Italy/ France/ Greece. A misunderstood starving artist conveying their emotions by painting on a canvas. The underlying aspect is emotion. Art is a way to express emotions if you look at the work of Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso what you will see is subconscious emotions on a canvas. Art making is hypothesized to involve bilateral stimulation, engaging the integrating and planning functions of the prefrontal cortex to sequence narratives using left brain functions. Slowly evolving to being used by psychoanalysts and art therapy becoming a profession. This essay will show how art plays an important factor in psychological

In this article, the opening explains what complicated grief is. Then, it goes on to explain a clinical trial that was done by Katherine Shear, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia (Schumer, 2009). In this clinical trial, it focused more on older adults who had lost a child or a spouse (Schumer, 2009). In this clinical trial, Shear figured out that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy was twice as effective as regular Interpersonal Therapy (Schumer, 2009). Another study was done by Mary-Frances O’Connor (Schumer, 2009). In this study, she used an MRI to study the brain activity of people with complicated grief (Schumer, 2009). She found that when these people looked at photos

The person can look at the art in see the meaning, confusion and sludge they are going through. In the study she focuses on is over a six week period with a hospitalized girl who had been sexually abused. This child had been having problems with aggression. A approved by her art therapy was something the children would look forward to and run into the room with excitement.

Roger’s traditional person-centered therapy is perhaps the greatest example of “talk therapy” as there is not any homework, specific techniques, or behavior to be changed. Instead, the success of the therapy lies in the process and letting clients experience this process as fully as possible. Therefore, it may be surprising that Natalie Roger’s person-centered expressive arts therapy has shifted away from traditional verbal means of expression to more creative means. According to Sommers-Flanagan, through mediums such as movement, drawing, painting, music, writing and improvisation “clients peel away the layers of defense and find their true nature” (2007). Expressive art therapy is not concerned with the end product (client’s do not create a piece to hang on the wall) but rather the process of using art to delve into a client’s pain, rage, or grief is the goal. Therefore, just as in Roger’s person-centered therapy the process is the focal point but the mediums used are quite different. Through these mediums clients find other ways to go inward, other ways to speak. Like her father’s person-centered therapy, Natalie Roger’s expressive arts therapy is nondirective and lets client’s lead the process and trusts them to find the modalities they can learn from (Sommers-Flanagan, 2007).

Art therapy postulates the idea that traumatic experiences, which are organized in our brains in the form of images and pictures, can be unlocked through the use of art based interventions (Appleton, 2001; Yohani, 2008). Four of the studies evaluated in this literature review were art and expressive therapy based. These studies utilized art forms such as music, writing, story reading, guided imagery and painting (Baker & Jones, 2006; Fazel, Doll & Stein, 2009; Kalantari et. al., 2012; Möhlen et. al., 2005). Though current research suggests that Art and Expressive therapy has the capability to decrease PTSD and depressive symptom severity, only one study was able to produce significant results in reducing these symptoms (Birman et. al., 2005; Möhlen et. al., 2005; Quinlan, Schweitzer, Khawaja & Griffin,

Art therapy is a common mental health vocation that utilizes the ingenious practice of art making to ameliorate and improve the mental, emotional, and physical healthfulness of people of all age groups. It is predicated on the credence that the creative operation involved in imaginative self-expression avails people to undertake conflicts and quandaries, develop interpersonal skills, manage comportment, reduce stress, increment self-esteem and self-cognizance, and accomplish understanding of themselves. Art therapy incorporates the fields of visual arts, human development, and the ingenious process with models of psychotherapy and counseling.

Art therapy is a mental health profession in which clients, facilitated by the art therapist, use art media, the creative process, and the resulting artwork to explore their feelings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, manage behavior and addictions, develop social skills, improve reality orientation, reduce anxiety, and increase self-esteem. A goal in art therapy is to improve or restore a client’s functioning and his or her sense of personal well-being.

Expressive arts therapy is the use of art modalities, creative process, and aesthetic experience in a therapeutic context. It is a therapy of the imagination (McNiff, 1992). Effective communication is an essential element in therapeutic relationships and, although verbal language is the most conventional means of conveying information, other forms can convey just as much as words. The arts are an alternative form of communication that has recently received recognition for their value in therapeutic settings. There is a long well-established connection between the arts and psychology. Expressive arts therapy builds on a natural, complimentary relationship between the two disciplines. As a formal therapy, this form is relatively new with its

Before we can understand what expressive art therapy is, however, an understanding of terms, like imagination and creativity, is necessary. There is a lack of consensus about how imagination and creativity are defined and who is capable of it. In therapeutic contexts, the essence of imagination is the substance of dreams. Dreams, however, are not just images. In dreams, sounds, rhythms, acts, etc. can be perceived in a sensory or experiential way (Levine & Levine, 2004). Creativity springs from imagination and is understood in terms of its qualities and characteristics: spontaneity, playfulness, motivation, originality, self-expression, inventiveness, divergent thinking, and intuition. Creativity pushes limits, breaks down barriers, and

Art has been used since the beginning of human history as an instrument for communicating feelings, thoughts and ideas (Vick, 2003). The oldest cave painting was found in the El Castillo Cave in Cantabria, Spain and dates back 40,000 years to the Aurignacian period (art therapy citation). Art has become a tool individuals use for self-expression and symbolism. While art has been around for thousands of years, it was not until the 1940’s where art was developed into a therapeutic tool (Vick, 2003).

Expressive arts therapy is a form of psychotherapy that allows for emotional expression and healing through nonverbal means (CATA, 2003). In practices of experienced psychotherapists, the therapy is typically not of one pure type, but draws aspects from a number of perspectives and schools. As for theoretical support and for critique, approaches of Freudian, Jungian, Cognitive-Behavioral, and Person-centered will be analyzed in the following part.