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How Art Therapy can help with Anxiety by Andrew C Wright

Art Therapy for Anxiety
Art Therapy and Anxiety

During these challenging times, it seemed important to investigate how art therapy can help with anxiety.

In this article, I will give an insight into how the creative art making process can help with anxiety. I will outline some strategies to help anxiety and discuss whether colouring books are a useful tool for anxiety. I look at the process of art therapy and how it can enable us to express and explore emotions.

“For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art” Edvard Munch

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Art Therapy for Children with Trauma: Moving past developmental trauma and attachment difficulties through creativity and play

Art Therapy for Children with Trauma: Moving past developmental trauma and attachment difficulties

Impact of early relationship trauma for children

Most of us know about trauma as a response to a terrible event that can cause shock, flashbacks, and difficult emotions, with PTSD-like symptoms, but now we understand that trauma can relate to early relationship difficulties that can cause separation anxiety and emotional imbalance. These could be traumatic experiences in childhood, as well as difficulties such as family separation or divorce. This can impact a person’s ability to form bonds with others. This article explains how art therapy for children with trauma, can help with cognitive development and relationship building.

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Introduction to Art Therapy: A Brief Guide By Andrew C Wright

What is Art Therapy? An Introduction

Introduction

Art Therapy is the use of the creative arts to express and reflect on emotional states with the guidance of an art therapist. It is effective as an approach due to the fact that it can help people express things that are difficult to talk about. It is also called Art Psychotherapy and is a well-developed profession in the UK and the US, being an approach that is used to help people of all ages.

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Providing Support for People with ASD with Emotional Wellbeing

Recently I have been undertaking research into how different psychological therapies can support people with ASD with their emotional wellbeing. As in the past, this has been overlooked, as there has been more of an emphasis on using behavioral modification approaches and undertaking research examing the ‘deficits’ of people with ASD.

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