Art therapy is used to help people explore emotions, develop self-awareness, cope with stress, and improve mental health. It utilizes creative activities like drawing, painting, and sculpting to allow non-verbal expression and insight. Benefits include improved ability to deal with physical and psychological symptoms, reduced stress and anxiety, and decreased depression. The goal is to use the creative process to help patients gain personal insights and coping skills through alternative modes of communication.
Art therapy is used to help people explore emotions, develop self-awareness, cope with stress, and improve mental health. It utilizes creative activities like drawing, painting, and sculpting to allow non-verbal expression and insight. Benefits include improved ability to deal with physical and psychological symptoms, reduced stress and anxiety, and decreased depression. The goal is to use the creative process to help patients gain personal insights and coping skills through alternative modes of communication.
Art therapy is used to help people explore emotions, develop self-awareness, cope with stress, and improve mental health. It utilizes creative activities like drawing, painting, and sculpting to allow non-verbal expression and insight. Benefits include improved ability to deal with physical and psychological symptoms, reduced stress and anxiety, and decreased depression. The goal is to use the creative process to help patients gain personal insights and coping skills through alternative modes of communication.
Art therapy is used to help people explore emotions, develop self-awareness, cope with stress, and improve mental health. It utilizes creative activities like drawing, painting, and sculpting to allow non-verbal expression and insight. Benefits include improved ability to deal with physical and psychological symptoms, reduced stress and anxiety, and decreased depression. The goal is to use the creative process to help patients gain personal insights and coping skills through alternative modes of communication.
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Art Therapy
I. Definition
Art Therapy is used to help people explore emotions, develop self-awareness, cope with stress, boost self-esteem, and work on social skills. The use of artistic methods to treat psychological disorders and enhance mental health is known as art therapy. Art therapy is a technique rooted in the idea that creative expression can foster healing and mental well- being. Through integrative methods, art therapy engages the mind, body, and spirit in ways that are distinct from verbal articulation alone. Kinesthetic, sensory, perceptual, and symbolic opportunities invite alternative modes of receptive and expressive communication, which can circumvent the limitations of language. Visual and symbolic expression gives voice to experience and empowers individual, communal, and societal transformation.
II. Importance and Function
The goal of art therapy is to utilize the creative process to help people explore self- expression and, in doing so, find new ways to gain personal insight and develop new coping skills. It can help people deal with strong emotions, increase self-awareness and self-worth, and reduce stress and anxiety when combined with talk therapy. Drawing, painting, coloring, and sculpting are just a few examples of creative expression that can be used in art therapy.
Art Therapy benefits patient and can help them treating a variety of physical health difficulties. Improved ability to deal with pain and other frightening symptoms in children with cancer. Reduced stress and anxiety in children with asthma. Stimulated mental function in older persons with dementia. Indicated a decrease in depression in Parkinson's patients.
III. Needed Materials
1. 3 Construction Paper
2. Glue 3. Ribbon
IV. Guidelines and Rules
1. Upon arrival, the student nurses assigned to the Art Therapy session will begin preparing the venue and setting up.
2. The remaining student nurses will assist and lead their allocated patients to their right seats.
3. Organizes the patients and settles the situation.
4. The remaining SNs allocated to the patients in the Isolation area will remain near by so that they may participate in the activity and answer any questions.
V. Steps on How to Facilitate and Deliver
1. Ensure that all the necessary equipment/materials are complete.
2. Organize the patient and settle the situation
3. The remaining student nurses will assist and lead their respective patients to their designated seats.
4. The student nurses with patients in the isolation area will remain near by so that they will still be able to participate in the activity.
5. Evaluation Method
a. The evaluation will be oral; the student nurses will call someone from the group or volunteers to answer the questions given.
b. Ask what are participants’ experiences of art therapy sessions overall? What do participants say is most useful about art therapy?
c. Ask what do participants perceive as the value of art therapy in an integrative
model of care? Will they recommend these services to others? Why? Why not?
d. Ask what symptoms are addressed most effectively by art therapy?
