Art: A Wonderful Form of Therapy

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What is Art Therapy ? 

• expressive therapy that uses the creative process to improve the physical, mental, and emotional well-being a person. So, the creative process help individual to resolve the issue and manage their behavior, stress, feeling and improve self esteem.
• According to American Therapy Association, art therapy is refer to integrative mental health profession that combines knowledge and understanding of human development and the theories and techniques of visual art and the creative process to provide a unique approach to help customers improve psychological health, cognitive, sensory-motor and psychological functions.
• The therapist use many ways to help client resolve the issue such as use a drawing and music. This two tools are very effective to uses because  it very therapeutic. 
• Art therapy very therapeutic because it help client to interpret their issue from their drawing, coloring, singing, and dance. 

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Art therapy have "5 modalities" that explain in the video.  

1. Art assessment 
2. Art expression of feeling 
3. Art as insight and understanding 
4. Art as mood and affect 
5. Art as therapeutic 

Benefit uses of Art Therapy 

• It is an alternative form of communication. 
• It may by pass internal censors. 
• It allow distance from our feelings. 
• It can provide a means of release. 
• It can look again about the feeling now and later. 
• It also help people to connect together. 

In addition, art therapy divided into several kinds of art such as music therapy and dance therapy. Music therapy is a therapy that combines a variety of art such as playing a musical instrument, sing and hear the song. For example uses of music therapy such as music therapy help teen with syndrome down, music therapy helps memory and Alzheimer patients and music therapy also help autism. For dance therapy refers to a dance and movement like dance help people have dementia. People will love to do this two therapy because it is the one of hobbies. 

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References: 

1. http://www.counseling.org/news/blog/aca-blog/2015/04/10/art-therapy-and-anxiety--part-deux
2. http://www.arttherapyblog.com/what-is-art-therapy/#.VvlRV-J97IX
3. http://arttherapy.org/
4. http://www.arttherapyblog.com/c/music-therapy/
5. http://www.arttherapyblog.com/art-therapy-seniors/using-dance-to-help-people-with-dementia/

by Aqeelah Nur Ain Binti Ainuddin (49627)