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Using Art As Therapy With Older Adults To Foster Connections And Establish Community Literature Review, Melissa Uva
Using Art As Therapy With Older Adults To Foster Connections And Establish Community Literature Review, Melissa Uva
Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses
This literature review advocates for the general needs of the growing aging population and focuses on how art as therapy programming can best support those needs. Arts programming, with an art therapy-inspired lens, can address the many needs of the older adult population and may promote meaningful connections between (1) the client and the art materials, (2) the client and self (both current and former), (3) the client and the facilitator/therapist, (4) the client and dyad or small groups and (5) the client and the community. The power of art therapy practices serves as the framework of this literature review, …