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Development Of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Informed Art Therapy Method For Adults With Psychiatric Diagnoses In A Partial Hospitalization Program, Lauren Muller
Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses
Mindfulness based approaches as well as alternative forms of treatment have widely been introduced into the partial hospitalization setting. While the inclusion of art therapy allows individuals to engaged with a tactile experience, DBT and mindfulness informs the individual of concrete skills and coping strategies to be directly applied in the creative space. There has been ample research conducted on the use of DBT in a partial hospital setting, however there is a lack of research on the inclusion of DBT informed art therapy in the same setting. However, small scale phenomenological research has been conducted on the effectiveness of …
Rewiring The Nervous System With Art Therapy: Advocating For An Empirical, Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Approach To Art Therapy Treatment Of Traumatized Children, A Literature Review, Reid Dominie
Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses
Devastatingly, children’s exposure to trauma and stressful life events is pervasive and spans a range of human experiences. Advances in neuroscience demonstrate that such traumas experienced during childhood can deleteriously rewire a child’s nervous system, in-turn altering their brain’s organization, development, and function. Left unresolved, the impacts of trauma can compound across a child’s lifetime manifesting in a host of negative psychological and health outcomes. Timely and neurosequentially-based interventions are key to helping traumatized children heal and achieve their full potential. This review of art therapy literature identifies current neurobiological-informed art therapy models for children who have experienced trauma. A …
The Use Of Art Therapy To Address Attachment In Autism Spectrum Disorder, Hilary Holmes
The Use Of Art Therapy To Address Attachment In Autism Spectrum Disorder, Hilary Holmes
Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses
The rate of diagnosis for Autism Spectrum Disorder has grown exponentially within the last few years. With that has come a need for more comprehensive understanding of the disorder and appropriate tools and methods for treatment. This paper aims to review critical research focused on the relationship between Autism Spectrum Disorder, the development of attachment styles in children and how Expressive Arts Therapy can be used in therapeutic treatment to support the development of secure attachment and healthy and appropriate social skills within the Autism population. The literature reviewed within this paper synthesizes a body of information including topics such …