Definitions for "Art therapy"
"therapy through art recognizes art processes, forms, content, and abilities, personality, interest, and concerns. Art Therapy can be a means of reconciling emotional conflicts and of fostering self-awareness and personal growth" (American Art Therapy Association, Inc. 1992)
is a form of self-exploration that allows people to express their feelings through the use of painting, sculpting, modelling, collage and drawing. Therapists work with people either singly or in groups. Artwork can help a person to learn different things about their life and to get in touch with areas of their personality which may have previously been closed to them.
Art therapists employ the making of art, usually in pictorial form, in order to work psychodynamically with their clients.
Use of art activities to help children communicate feelings or thoughts about the death of a significant person in their lives. Also used with the elder Alzheimer patients as a memory enhancement
A way of conveying your feelings through drawings and paintings. These are then discussed with a specially trained professional.