Friday, March 25, 2016

How People Improve Art Therapy

By Deborah Murphy


There are so many different types of programs that therapists offer, and each one of these is unique to the individual. It can help one based on what they are suffering from or their particular personality. A lot of people will benefit hugely from the creative process. Neuroscience has proven that art therapy has been helping both adults and children improve in a big way.

Both adults and children are encouraged to have a look at this type of creativity and how it can work on healing and improving their situation. This especially helps those who have problems on a day to day basis who are having trouble with depression and anxiety or panic attacks. Some people find it difficult to talk to a therapist.

There are many reasons why someone may struggle to express themselves. Sometimes they have trust issues because of a bad experience from the past. They may have been abandoned or neglected so it is difficult to know who to trust. This is especially true of children. This also relates to those folk who have been abused in their life and they simply can't talk about their ordeal.

Expressing this in another way is certainly going to help them persevere and often reach a level where they feel a sense of self compassion. This is important for trauma patients who develop a lot of symptoms as a result of what they have been through. Often working in a group can be helpful, but there are patients that will benefit from working in a one on one situation.

This will also be a safety net for the patient. A therapist who is working with someone who has suicide thoughts always has to work on what is safe in their lives and this will bring them back to reality, and out of the negative mode. It has been proven by working in this creative process, the two parts of the brain start to do the healing work. This is something that talk therapy can't do.

There are a lot of methods that therapists like this use to see what the problem is and how they can grow. Children are very honest with what they draw and therapists are able to recognize this through their training. For example, a child who has been abused may draw a family portrait in black with storm in the background.

A therapist like this can specialize in a variety of locations, such as in hospitals, clinics, drug rehabs or schools. Many of them have their own private practice where they will give patients more individualized attention. However, sometimes it is also nice for folks to have social interaction, especially for someone who does not get out a lot due to their disorder.

It is something that the therapist will encourage these patients to turn to because it is a great sense of release, and the negative thoughts, the despair and the hopelessness is transferred into their work. They can turn to this form of therapy at any point. The more they work through their feelings like this, the more they will start to improve.




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