TYPES OF ART

THERAPY

ART THERAPY FOR HEALING (PERSON-
CENTERED EXPRESSIVE ART THERAPY)

ART THERAPY FOR DIAGNOSIS (MEDICAL
MODEL OF ART THERAPY)
PERSON-CENTERED
EXPRESSIVE
ART THERAPY

Use the basic philosophy of Person-Centered
Therapy
The therapist must be emphatic, open, honest,
congruent, and caring
It incorporates the belief that each individual
has worth, dignity, and the capacity for self-
direction.
The therapy uses various arts movement,
drawing, painting, sculpting, music, writing,
sound

The therapy is conducted in a supportive
environment to facilitate self-exploration,
healing and growth
It is a process of discovering oneself that
comes from an emotional depth
It is not creating a pretty pictures, nor a
dance ready for stage
It differs from the analytic or medical model of
art therapy, in which the art is not used for
diagnostic purposes.

HUMANISTIC PRINCIPLES OF PERSON-
CENTERED ART THERAPY

All people have an innate ability to be creative
The creative process is healing
Personal growth and higher state of consciousness
are achieved through self-awareness, self-
understanding and insight
Self-awareness, self-understanding and insight are
achieved by delving into our emotions
Our feelings and emotions are an energy source

The expressive arts lead us into the
unconscious
Art modes interrelate in the creative
connection
The connection exists between our life-force
our inner core, or soul and the essence of
all beings
Therefore as we journey inwards to discover
our essence or wholeness, we discover our
relatedness to the outer world.

Personal growth takes place in a safe,
supportive environment created by therapists
who are genuine, warm, emphatic, open,
honest, congruent and caring.
A client-counselor relationship can be the
context for experiencing those qualities
mentioned.
Personal integration (mind, emotion, physical,
and spiritual) occurs by client taking time to
reflect on and evaluate these experiences

ART THERAPY FOR
DIAGNOSIS
Theory of Compensation (Carl Jung)

A therapist should not try to impose any
particular behavior upon the client
A therapist must be willing to accompany the
clients unconscious on its journey
The unconscious complement or compensate
the conscious

Premises What Art Therapy
Stands On

In order to understand the language of drawing, we
must accept the following three premises:

There is an unconscious, and that the pictures come
from the same level as the dreams
We are individuals resembling the iceberg, and there
are the conscious and the unconscious content
There is the need to consider other important signals
coming from the unconscious and revealing
themselves in our drawings and lives

Focal Point In
Understanding Drawing

The Principle of Understanding Drawing
First Principle
Always note ones initial impression of a
picture. One should not interpret the picture,
but rather concentrate on ones initial
feelings. It is not necessary to share this
impressions with clients, but the store the
impressions until a later date

Second Principle
The counselor/analyst should act as a
researcher by using the following systematic
approach:
- one must ask about the materials used in
the picture. Is it cheap or expensive? Is the
paper of good quality?

give consideration to the size of the paper used by the
client, especially in its relationship to the size of the
drawing. If the relationship is off balanced, it could
indicate a psychic disturbance in the patient, and
counselor needs to wonder what this lack of
relatedness means.
Give consideration to its color, shape, direction of
movement, placement, number of repeated objects,
and missing items
Break the picture down into its components, and only
then decide the appropriate elements to focus.
Third Principle
(the most difficult principle to follow)
synthesize what has been learned from
individual components and assemble the
information into a whole.

POINTS TO LOOK AT IN A
PICTURE

What is odd
Look for barriers, block or object that
represent a barrier
Observe what is absent or missing
What is central
Size
Shape distortion
Repeated Objects

Consistency of Perspective
Shading (shading used a lot of energy, and it
might represent fixation or anxiety about the
object being drawn)
Look for edging
Compare to the surrounding world
Drawing which is out of season

Encapsulation (setting oneself apart from
others)
Extension
Back of drawing (an indication of conflict)
Note erasures (areas of drawing that has
been rub off)
Words in drawing
Line across the top of a page
Transparency
Abstract
Filled in versus empty
Trees and age
Drawing the work situation within a family
drawing
Five-year old drawing to present-day drawing
Laying pictures over each other
Translating colors


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