Editorial McDonald, Alex; Carr, Susan
International journal of art therapy,
12/2018, Volume:
23, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
In this, our first editorial as Editors-in-Chief, we reflect on the history of the journal and announce exciting new developments as we move International Journal of Art Therapy towards becoming an ...ethical research journal.
IntroductionConsidering the development of this study, we selected cases where art therapy played a central role in the educational/therapeutic process. Studied 130-150 cases per year on average, for ...25 years (1996-2021), including children and adolescents aged between 2 and 18 years of both sexes, different social backgrounds in terms of housing, culture, and education: education/ clinical art therapy ( Mental Health Center for Children and Adolescents ward of the Cluj-Napoca Children’s Emergency Hospital) and non-clinical education/art-therapy.The activities also have components of artistic creation, research, and teaching with students, within the disciplines “Art therapy in institutional contexts” and “Artistic play and experiment in group dynamics”, within the University of Art and Design section Pedagogy of Plastic and Decorative Arts from Cluj-Napoca Romania. The results are published at the international and world congresses to which we were invited together with the practitioners under supervision.ObjectivesThe aims of occupational therapy, which include art therapy and play therapy, are to facilitate the use of creative process and symbolic communication, associated with narrative and imitation, to develop new ways of communication, self-expression and seeing things.MethodsWe use materials and techniques that are specific to visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphic, multimedia, photography, film, animation, and digital media), but also traditional ones, specific to tridimensional arts, such as pottery wheels and sculptural modeling. Activities are structured according to the following dimensions:• The making of art or the production of other crafts resembles a situation test• The analysis of the products allows the beneficiaries to attain a certain level of introspection and to “work through” their problems in constructive manner• The execution of an operation requires sensory, cognitive, and affective intervention;• Psychological dimensions, which include the individual’s intrinsic need for self-improvement, for obtaining competence and self-knowledge;• The socio-cultural and symbolic dimension of the act;• The spiritual dimension, related to the meaning of the occupation for the individual;• The temporal dimensions of the occupation (referring to the time or period of time required for recovery).ResultsBy interacting with these factors, the individual gets to know his own potential and limits, but also those of the environment in which he lives.Image:Image 2:ConclusionsAn equidistant trialogue and circular relations between art, religion and science, without any specific supremacy, is created, which can offer from the start the possibility of lasting harmonizations, of informational transfers and professional enhancements that support developments, ennobling the human being through positive reorientations and beneficial recoveries.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared
Introduction. Continuous training has won a crucial place within the health organization, the training courses must however be well designed and applied all the steps of the planning from the ...detection of the needs to the planning, to the evaluation of the learning but also of outcomes and relapses. The purpose of this work is to apply all the steps of the training planning to the company course "Living death: emotional impact in operators" and evaluate the results. Method. Art therapy was chosen as the teaching methodology; the Kirkpatrick model was adopted for the evaluation. Results. 4th editions were held between 2018/19 with fifty-six participants. For the evaluation of learning, the documents produced were evaluated. To evaluate the outcomes and relapses, questionnaires were administered on two qualitative and quantitative levels (Likert scale) created ad hoc before and after the course and a follow-up at six months. Discussion. the specific objectives that the course had set for analysis of the answers given above all by the follow-up are achieved. The methodology was effective and congruent with the topic covered by the course, the use of expressive materials allowed the participants to find new ways of approaching the issue of death, at least half of the professionals who participated during the course they changed the behaviors under investigation the learning took place and that certainly this has positively influenced the working reality. Keywords: Art therapy Evaluation of outcomes Living death Introduzione. La formazione continua si e conquistata un posto cruciale all'interno dell'organizzazione sanitaria, i percorsi formativi pero devono essere ben progettati e applicati tutti i passaggi della progettazione: dalla rilevazione del fabbisogno, alla pianificazione, alla valutazione degli apprendimenti ma anche degli esiti e delle ricadute. Lo scopo di questo lavoro e applicare sul corso aziendale "Vivere la morte: impatto emotivo negli operatori" tutti i passaggi della progettazione formativa e valutare gli esiti. Metodo. E stata scelta l'arteterapia come metodologia didattica, per la valutazione e stato adottato il modello di Kirkpatrick. Risultati. Sono state realizzate n 4 edizioni fra il 2018/19 con cinquantasei partecipanti. Per la valutazione dell'apprendimento sono stati valutati gli elaborati prodotti. Per valutare gli esiti e le ricadute si sono somministrati questionari su due livelli qualitativi e quantitativi (scala Likert) creati ad hoc pre e post corso e un follow up a sei mesi. Discussione. Gli obiettivi specifici che il corso si era posto all'analisi delle risposte date soprattutto dal follow-up risultano raggiunti. La metodologia e risultata efficace e congruente con l'argomento trattato dal corso l'utilizzo di materiali di tipo espressivo ha permesso ai partecipanti di trovare nuove modalita di approccio alla tematica della morte, almeno la meta dei professionisti che hanno partecipato al corso hanno modificato i comportamenti oggetto di indagine, l'apprendimento c'e stato e sicuramente cio ha influito positivamente sulla realta lavorativa. Parole chiave: Arteterapia Valutazione esiti Vivere la morte * 1 2
Submission Hobson, Trina
International journal of art therapy,
12/2023, Volume:
28, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
My paintings introduce a story to the viewer, drawing on invented and imagined contexts, places and connections for characters. The familiar and personally known are frequently merged with a store of ...characters from art history and literature, inviting the viewer in to these sustained environments.Through narratives my painting practice embeds existential issues: feelings of abandonment are juxtaposed with reflectiveness, disjointedness and fragmentation. The process of deconstructing and flattening the images moves them towards the abstracted and ambiguous, forcing the viewer to fill in the spaces with something personal to the presented or given story.
Editorial Carr, Susan; McDonald, Alex
International journal of art therapy,
06/2018, Volume:
23, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
As our first editorial acting as co-editors for this journal it is a pleasure to present this issue, which includes four diverse articles featuring very different art therapy practices and theories, ...and yet each in its own way, speaks about the importance of developing a collaborative relationship and enabling the client to not only find a way forward through their particular issues, but to develop a lasting resilience.
This article reviews the potential functions and approaches of museum education in alleviating psychological anxiety, particularly the psychological anxiety experienced by adolescents during the ...COVID-19 pandemic. We outline the main forms of museum education, highlighting how it supports the potential functions of art therapy for psychological anxiety. Thereafter, we review the representative research on museum art therapy practice for different populations to invite discussion, dialogue, and awareness of future directions for museum education and suggest gaps in the research that require further study.
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