Art Therapy from a Biblical Perspective
Art Therapy Links
Disclaimer -
You will need to discern which of this is biblically-based or biblically
accurate and adaptable for your situations.
A
History of Art Therapy
Art
Therapy as Part of a Holistic Approach
Art Therapy in the Caucasus
Ethical
Principles for Art Therapists
Healing
Arts for Tsunami Survivors
History of Art Therapy Training
in Canada
Painting Through the Pain
The Benefits of Art
Therapy : A 10 page paper discussing the utilization of therapeutic art
programs in the rehabilitation of the emotionally-traumatized & disabled.
Bibliography lists six sources.
The
Role of the Arts in Healing Individuals and Communities
The
Tapestry of Cultural Issues in Art Therapy
ART THERAPY FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
Buildabridge
Int'l
The
Role of the Arts in Healing Individuals and Communities
Individual and Group
Art Therapy with Refugees
This course will demonstrate how art therapy can effectively facilitate healing
for refugees. Many of those who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder
have never dealt with the results of displacement, torture, separation, and
loss. The material presented will review the usefulness of art therapy in
facilitating their recovery and adjustment to Canadian
society.
DEFINITIONS: WHAT IS ART THERAPY?
What
is Art Therapy?
What Is Art Therapy? - #2
What
is an Art Therapist?
Arts Relief and Restoration
Art Relief and Restoration is the advanced volunteer program of BuildaBridge
International comprised of arts therapy professionals, artists, and community
service workers trained in emergency relief through artistic intervention.
The mission ARR is to provide--through the arts--a sense of normalcy, bring
emotional healing, provide aesthetic nourishment, and feed the souls of children
who have experienced traumatic circumstances as a result of war and catastrophic
events around the world.
Arts in Therapy News and More - newsletter
American Art Therapy
Assoc.
Arts
in Therapy International Alliance
Westchester
Art Therapy Assoc.
BC
Art Therapy Assoc.
Art
Therapy Research Resources
Art
Therapy Statistics Resources
A
Canadian Art Therapy Discussion Group
Alliance
of the Arts - links
Arts
in Therapy Links - LOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Arts
in Therapy Tutorials
Art
Therapy in the Schools - resource packet
Art
Therapy Resource Links - More
Links
The
Art of Art Therapists - Art Show
Arts
Therapy Links
Announcements& Related Events
Art Therapy Workshops for everyone
Art Therapy Discussion & E-mail lists
Art Therapy Conferences
Art Therapy Associations in Canada
Art TherapyJournals & Newsletters
Professional Development in Art Therapy
Art Therapy training programs in Canada Info
Call for Art Therapy Presenters
InternationalArt Therapy Links
Art Galleriesof Interest: ART as THERAPY
Creative Arts Therapy Links
Art Therapy Bibliography
Art Therapy Training
Creative Arts
Therapies - Concordia Univ. Montreal
Graduate These
at Art Therapy Institute, Vancouver
History
of Art Therapy Training in Canada
Individual
and Group Art Therapy with Refugees
This course will demonstrate how art therapy can effectively facilitate healing
for refugees. Many of those who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder
have never dealt with the results of displacement, torture, separation, and
loss. The material presented will review the usefulness of art therapy in
facilitating their recovery and adjustment to Canadian
society.
Master
of Counselling: Art Therapy Specialization (MC:AT)
Vancouver, BC
Nazareth
College Art Therapy program
Visual Art Therapies
Institute
Painting
Through the Pain - (the following is from the web site
accessed by clicking on the link)
"...When the Nazis forced artist Friedl
Dicker-Brandeis into Terezin, she smuggled in art supplies and taught the
concentration camp’s children to express themselves through art.
“Everyone put us in boxes — the Nazis — and she took us out of them,” her student, Edna Amit, later said of Dicker-Brandeis, who died in Auschwitz at age 47.
The Museum of Tolerance is remembering Dicker-Brandies, one of the founders of art therapy, with a display of her art and that of her students, as well as a modern-day art therapy project inspired by her techniques.
A downstairs gallery displays art by children of Terezin, which depict harsh camp conditions and life before the war.
Upstairs, 10 life-size puppets — each created by one of 10 students from inner-city Orville Wright Middle School — sit at a mosaiced table, with decorated cigar boxes archiving the lives of each child. The school’s 13- to 15-year-olds face modern-day challenges such as pressure to use drugs and join gangs.
This is the first time that Virginia Marroquin, a 13-year-old Latina, learned about the Holocaust, and it made her see her own challenging life in a different way: “[The Holocaust] opened my eyes a lot … it helped me look at life in a better way. It made me realize how much I have,” she told The Journal.
Art therapist Dr. Debra Linesch created the project with Regina Miller, the museum’s project director. This past summer they led a five-day workshop, using Dicker-Brandeis to inspire the inner-city children.
“No matter how bad things are, give voice to it and you are re-humanizing a dehumanizing experience,” said Linesch, director of the graduate department of marital and family therapy at Loyola Marymount University. “That’s what I learned from Friedl.”
The dual exhibit runs through Jan. 15, at the Museum of
Tolerance, Simon
Wiesenthal Plaza, 9786 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles. For information, call
(310) 553-8403 or visit http://www.wiesenthal.com/mot
Source: http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=11561
War in Irak seen by the Iraki children - click on link for access to web site where the following is from.
Puffin Room Curator's Statement
"...Since its inception the Puffin Room has hosted
a multitude of exhibitions dealing with issues of world peace and social justice.
Documenting Lifestyles brought together Israeli and Palestinian teenagers
whose photographic essays attempted to straddle the gulf of hatred between
their cultures. The Weavings of War exhibited textiles documenting warfare
in
Peru, Afghanistan and Vietnam, where violence was woven into the fabric of
life. The Spirit Lives and Shouts From the Wall presented compelling images
and posters from the Spanish Civil War. When Will They Ever Learn juxtaposed
children's drawings from Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia with drawings by refugee
children from Spain in 1938.
Shocked and Awed will again present children's drawings. These drawings by
Iraqi children were created in Baghdad only weeks after the intense bombardment
of the city ceased. Through innocent eyes, these drawings depict the madness
of adults and the horror and terror the children witnessed.
The drawings display a wide range of technique and imagery.
Several are rich in symbolism while others are simple matchstick drawings
of fighting soldiers. One ten-year-old boy's pencil drawing of a U.S. Marine
tank is done with the accuracy and precision of an automotive designer. In
another the sun is crying and written is "Wher's the Water." Yet
another states succinctly, "We are Not Gilty." Many of the drawings
illustrate the map of
Iraq with a heart in its center. Many of the girls' drawings curiously depict
a weeping blonde girl surrounded by carnage and destruction. Some of the drawings
welcome the U.S. troops and their ouster of the tyrant Saddam Hussein.
It is my hope that many people will see these images to better understand that there are no 'smart bombs.' Children and innocents have been killed, crippled, maimed and orphaned by this war. War is not a football game. There are no winners. War represents the worst of human nature.
In conjunction with the exhibition there will be several programs and events to benefit Doctors Without Borders relief works in Iraq."
Carl Rosenstein
Executive Director, The Puffin Room
July 20, 2003
Source of text and images: http://www.puffinroom.org/iraq/curator.html
'U'
helps 'Lost Boys' find new way of life
George
Washington Univ. Art Therapy Program
Canadian Art
Therapy Assoc.
Journal
Many
Refugees Find Voice, Solace in Art - article
INTEGRATION ACTIVITY : Artists and Bosnian Refugees
http://www.refugeenet.org/health/details.php3?ID=247
War-traumatised exiled Bosnian Women have rebuilt their lives with
Art-therapy in Austria. To generate income and create employment for refugees
A very successful initiative that started as a way of helping traumatised
women refugees from Bosnia-Hertzogovna is that of SUSRET in Austria.
Women’s traditional skills in handicrafts were initially used as a way
of
using their time effectively and earning some pocket money. This became the
basis for a co-operative venture which used these traditional skills but
adapted them by using modern art designs; artists and designers
internationally were asked to contribute designs which could be made into
tex-tile products. These products are promoted internationally through
exhibitions in Europe and the USA, and specific markets identified who can
provide orders for the products. The benefit of the project is not only in
the employment of refugee women and the economic rewards that this venture
brings but also in the way in which it has created arts objects based on
co-operation between craftswomen and designers and thus helped to expand
refugee women’s own creativity as well as their independence.
Group
Art Therapy/Psychotherapy at the Canadian Centre for Victims of
Torture - article
Art
Therapy in Canada
Sri
Lanka's rivals tackle child trauma - article
Arts
news, Kids in refugee camps turn to art to cope with new environment
[27-02-2004] By Dita Asiedu
"...Asylum Centre Therapy
Being a refugee in a foreign country is a difficult experience for anyone.
For children it can be even harder. The loss of home, friends and familiar
surroundings is hard to bear, especially if children fail to understand why
they've had to leave it all behind. Some of the Czech Republic's refugee
camps offer a special form of therapy: painting. This week the artists
-aged five to thirteen - proudly displayed their work at the Children's Art
Museum at the House of the Green Frog, just off the Old Town Square. Miluse
Dohnalova, administration director of the Czech Republic's refugee
facilities, explained to Daniela Lazarova why this form of therapy - and
the motivation it provides - is so important:
"We have a psychologist in each facility, in each asylum centre, because
children have a lot of psychological problems with the circumstances they
find themselves in. And to see an unhappy child is always very, very sad.
That is why we try to help them in this way, as well as in others. You
could say that they are caring for themselves by drawing."
What do these children draw most -is there anything that they tend to focus
on? You say they are unhappy -the drawings probably reflect that...
"The answer is very simple. They always draw houses. Small houses. Big
houses. Always something with a roof. It is a symbol of what is essential
and what is lacking in their lives. That is why cooperation with experts
from the pedagogical faculty is very, very important. They know how to
guide the children to draw something else and to express their pain, their
fears and also their pleasure."
Can you tell me how these children live?
"Our asylum centres have a capacity from 100 to 300 beds. Usually the
children live in one room with their parents. Only really big families get
to have two rooms. The children go to a Czech elementary school together
with Czech children and they have special Czech language courses, of course."
What do they do in the afternoon?
"We try to give them space and opportunities. That's why we set up the
art
classes. We also have a gym, some tea rooms, play rooms but you know to
create an illusion of home is very, very difficult. We can try to do it but
we cannot really succeed."
How long do they usually stay in the asylum centre before they are granted
asylum?
"It is usually a matter of months. Sometimes as long as two years. "...
Art Therapy As Part of A Holistic Approach - article
http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:_ft8AzcQOlAJ:www.trauma-netz.drk.de/e/be
richte/art_therapy/art_therapy_as_part_of_a_holistic_approach.pdf+art+therap
y,+refugees&hl=en&start=27&ie=UTF-8
Salem's
Christian Counselling Directory of Ontario - Art & Play Therapy
Type of Service: Counselling
List of Services: Individual, couple, child, adolescent
and family
counselling for abuse, anxiety, attention deficit disorders, PTSD/trauma
(children), spiritual abuse, inner healing, conflict management,
depression, emergencies/crises, grief/loss, homosexuality, parenting,
pregnancy (not abortion); also art & play therapy, theraplay, cognitive
counselling, prayer counselling and psychotherapy
Play Therapy
Play therapy offers children the opportunity to process
emotional
issues through the world of play. Because their abstract thinking is not
yet fully developed, children have limitations around the amount of
emotional material that they can process verbally. Play is a medium which
children use to learn and process information. In play therapy, children
play out their issues in much the same way that adults talk out their
issues in verbal counselling (Axline, 1947).
Play Therapy
In play, children often express their emotions in a direct and
uncensored way, giving the counsellor a great deal of understanding about
the child's problems and feelings. Not only is play used to bring
understanding to a child's issues, but it is also used as a vehicle for
change. The child is provided with a corrective emotional experience
through emotional support, interpretations and clarification of the child's
feelings. Play therapy provides the child with the opportunity to
re-experience the conflict or problem in the safety of the counselling
room, and therefore providing the child the chance to conquer fears, adjust
to life changes, and gain a feeling of security to replace anxiety and
uncertainty.
CONTENTS
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http://www.united-church.ca/dxl/courses.shtm
• Imagery in Health and Healing: Introduction to Art Therapy (OI)
• Art Therapy Technique I: Art Fundamentals (OI)
• Art Therapy Technique II: Applications, Methods and Materials (OI)
• Restoration of the Soul: Introduction to Art and Spirituality (OI)
• Art, Aging and Spirituality (OI)
• Art Therapy and Bereavement: Drawing from Within (OI)
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Creative
and media interventions in humanitarian relief
Creative Exchange plans to initiate the development of standards for arts
and media activities in emergency relief programmes as part of an extended
programme of research and information exchange between arts practitioners,
aid agencies and other organisations involved in humanitarian relief
programmes.
Support for the development of standards, research and
networking in this
field was expressed by participants at an Open Partners´ Meeting in
London
on July 27 hosted by the British Council. Creative Exchange was mandated to
take leadership of this process.
The event attracted a wide range of representation from
the arts and
humanitarian aid sectors including UNHCR, UNICEF, Department for
International Development (DFID), Disasters Emergency Committee, Oxfam,
Merlin, Save the Children, World Vision, REFAID, the Arts Council of
England, London Arts Board, British Actor´s Equity Association and many
individual practitioners and arts organisations.
Creative Exchange launched a preliminary survey of creative
and cultural
inputs into the Kosovo crisis, following eight weeks of research and
mapping of arts and media activities in the region and among refugee host
communities in the UK.
Presentations on the role of arts and creative media in
humanitarian relief
and post conflict reconstruction were given by Sue Birchmore (World
Vision), Sally Burnheim (UNICEF), Bobby Lloyd (Arts Therapy Initiative),
David Wilson (Pavarotti Music Centre), Gordon Adam and Mary Myers (Media
Action International), Eugene Skeef and Robert Walker (Department of
International Development).
Creative Exchange will follow up this event by developing
a 12-month
programme to progress information exchange and standards development. We
will be seeking donors for this programme.
Sue Birchmore spoke of the importance of using creative
approaches as part
of World Vision´s holistic approach to humanitarian aid and post-conflict
reconstruction. The agency was using arts activities in trauma therapy, for
awareness raising on mines and with elders and in the redevelopment of
communities and civil society. World Vision was currently undertaking
research in Rwanda on a new culturally sensitive system for evaluating
levels of trauma in emergency situations.
Art Therapy Initiative programmes in the former Yugoslavia,
South Africa
and the UK had shown that: "Art therapy can provide a means of expression
in the context of an experience which perhaps cannot yet be verbalised and
is potentially overwhelming. Through the art-making, the individual can
begin to make meaning of events, emotions and experiences in his/her life,"
said Bobby Lloyd, ATI co-founder. Key issues to be taken into account when
planning and managing art therapy interventions: funding, which was a
prerequisite for sustainability; safe spaces in which the work could take
place; models of good practice; peer supervision, pre-training and
de-briefing; communication with local support systems and humanitarian
organisations; monitoring and evaluation and flexibility to respond to
changing needs.
Creative activities had been valuable to UNICEF´s
programme in Kosovo as
part of education and recreation for children and young people, said Sally
Burnheim. However, one of the principal lessons learned from the Kosovo
crisis was that too much recreational activity can distract attention from
formal educational activities. She stressed the need for follow up with
implementing partners and spoke of the need to respect the privacy of
participants involved in creative programmes: UNICEF asked permission from
participants before promoting their creative work to a wider public. Ms
Burnheim also stressed the need for a flexible approach since what works in
one emergency would not necessarily work in another.
Gordon Adam, of Media Action International, said that radio
had proved
effective in providing information, education and entertainment quickly and
easily. It required limited resources, it was quick to set up and it could
reach a wide audience. There was a need, said Mr Adam, to get away from the
top-down broadcasting and enable people to feedback and ask questions
through off-air information and counselling lines. MAI´s format enabled
people to participate in programmes: young people had been involved in the
development of jingles about mines awareness and separation from family
groups. Mary Myers reported that a needs assessment in the region had shown
that refugees priorities for radio broadcasts were receiving practical
information about such issues as health, family and repatriation. A second
priority was alleviating boredom and the need for play opportunities and
´reflective´ entertainment.
"When the lights go out, when the food disappears,
when death is
ever-present, you still find music," commented David Wilson, Director
of
the Pavarotti Music Centre on the significance of music in Mostar. "It
was
an expression of defiance, a testament to the survival of the one thing
that kept them human in an inhuman situation." The centre had worked
in
communities, with schools and kindergartens, with disabled people, with the
displaced and those suffering from mental health problems. It had enabled
former enemies to face each other across a room and "exorcise their demons"
through rap music. "Two years after the opening of the PMC in Mostar,
children who refused to speak and communicate in any way are now doing so
because of our music therapy programme," said Mr Wilson. In addition,
the
centre had become a major employer in Mostar and its management and
administration was being turned over to local staff.
Robert Walker from the Department for International Development
(DFID) said
that the department´s support had focused on information and communications
activities including the Media Action International Programme and a BBC
Albania Service programme for children. It had delivered clockwork radios
to refugees and returnees, supported the media of Kosovo in Exile and
provided advisory centres for refugees. He stressed the need for better
research on the impacts of creative and media activities, which were at
present "more implied than tested", and suggested that more work
should be
done to prepare for future emergencies.
Eugene Skeef pointed out that there were dangers in "people
coming from
Europe and showing others how to do it." This attitude did not help build
the empowerment, confidence and self-reliance which was so desperately
needed. He also pointed out creative activities and especially music could
be a powerful tool to prevent conflict. He led an energetic participatory
session using rhythm and song.
Creative Exchange´s preliminary survey showed that
there was great interest
in this subject among aid agencies: 75 per cent of UK-based agencies
surveyed had used or expressed interest in using creative activities in
their relief programmes. The level of interest within the aid community
appeared to have increased since the last Balkan war, mirroring greater
international acknowledgment of culture in development processes.
However, within aid agencies there appeared to be limited
understanding of
how creative interventions in emergencies might be effectively planned,
managed, coordinated and evaluated. There were no clear standards of
practice.
"Creative and cultural interventions are no different
from any other aspect
of humanitarian relief in so far as principles and performance standards
need to apply," said Creative Exchange Coordinator, Helen Gould. "We
believe that both agencies and arts practitioners have a duty of care to
ensure their their creative work is having the desired effect and that
staff engaged have the right knowledge and experience to deliver it."
Within the Kosovar refugee community in the UK, there appeared
to have been
quite limited opportunities for creative participation. Most ´cultural´
activities consisted of tourism, television and English teaching. Around
half the UK local authorities contacted planned some cultural events or
visits.
* Eddie Thomas, Save the Children Fund, UK, felt that these activities
would also make a valuable contribution to human rights and advocacy.
* Bill Hamblett, Small World Theatre, UK, felt that it
was the artists´
responsibility to ensure that creative activities did not just become a
"finger-wagging exercise ". Creative activities should be built
on the
values of mutual respect.
* Simon Mundy, UK, pointed out that the European Cultural
Foundation had
researched uses of arts in conflict and may be interested in putting money
into initiatives. He pointed out that men were a vulnerable group having
lost status in society and should also be targeted for creative activities.
* Laura Hessler of Musicians Without Borders, The Netherlands,
reported on
music activities with refugee communities based in the Netherlands. "It
was
the first time people had been able to make music without it being
politically loaded".
* Hugh Manning, British Actors Equity Association, UK,
reported on links
and initiatives developed by the International Committee for Artists
Freedom to support artists in the Kosovo crisis. He called for information
about arts work in the region.
* Kathy O´Brien, London Arts Board, UK, pointed out
that the war had a
knock-on effect on the arts sector in the Balkans which would intern impact
both culturally and economically on the region. There was a need to raise
these issues and offer help and support.
An exercise seeking responses to the recommendations elicited
the following
response:
* indicators for cultural activities which would enable
projects to be
evaluated need to be set participatively (point 6.3).
* there was a need for information sharing and exchange to avoid duplication
* contact details for participants should be circulated
* An internet site should be developed as a platform for the development of
standards and networking
* Creative Exchange should take away positive leadership to develop
standards and networking
* There should be further advice and information for local authorities on
initiatives for refugee communities in the UK
* Information should be made available about artists in the Balkans and
their activities.
Creative Exchange
- the network for culture and development
All over the world arts and culture are creating a change
helping people to overcome hardship, conflict, ill-health, abuse and build
a better future.
Creative Exchange exists to educate people about this 'social
role' of arts
and culture.
Our vision is a world where arts and culture play a significant
role in
human development.
Art
Therapy Conferences
An Art Therapy Vision
Oct 3, 4, 5, 6, 2002
A Canadian Art Therapy Conference
To be held in beautiful Nelson, BC, Canada
In response to the way our world has changed this year
we want to put
forward the concept of peace in the global village as a creative act. The
intention of this conference is to focus on the relationship of art therapy
to issues of war, peace and justice. We want to explore the role that
expressive therapies can play in healing, conflict resolution and pose the
question ‘can peace be a creative act?’
With the numerous tragedies and a variety of violent acts
and a violent
war, questions of safety and security abound. We are all affected by murder
and suicide in our high schools, the terrorist bombing of the twin towers,
the waging of war, the Arab Israeli conflict, and the situation in Ireland
just to name a few.
We want to expand our vision and our thinking and to look
deeply at the
meaning of peace and justice. We understand grief, tragedy and the roots of
war and we see the impact of on going intergenerational trauma. But the
question of how to work towards peace and how to find a way for each
individual to engage in a creative act in a movement towards global peace
needs to be explored.
We welcome presentations from expressive therapists in
exploring the role
of the arts in creating peace within ourselves and within our communities.
Family art therapy can be a way of families coming to a place of peace and
justice within the family. Community creative projects in the expressive
arts are beginning to bring communities together. What is the place or role
of expressive therapies in peacemaking? Is there an art to creating peace?
Can we create a path so that difference and diversity can become a strength
instead of a weakness. If we continue in the path of responding with “An
eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” then the whole world will become
blind and toothless.
We are looking forward to your proposals for papers,
presentations, performances and workshops. We would like this conference to
extend our thinking to envision the future and to push the boundaries of
our present ways of responding to envision new and creative avenues towards
peace.
The conference committee has started to generate ideas
that we would like
to see presented: the value of art therapy in cross-cultural situations,
with refugees, with issues of trauma and violence. Other potential topics
include the value of the creative process in recovery, the impact of media
on children, the use of art in critical incident stress debriefing, the
value of art therapy in healing from intergenerational issues stemming from
residential school experience, and open studio expressive therapy projects.
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Arts
Therapists Refugees and Migrants: Reaching across Borders
Ditty Dokter (Editor) - book
Creative
Art Therapies Books
http://freespace.virgin.net/david.pratt3/pages/Creative_Arts_Therapies_Booklist/Books_titles_A.htm
Art
& Music Therapy Books
Migration
and Refugee Services Expressive Arts Program - Catholic
Program Objectives and Unique Needs Addressed
The Expressive Arts Program seeks to help refugees
adjust to a new culture and new way of life help refugees express feelings
related to trauma experienced in their
country of origin or the refugee camp, or current trauma due to transition
provide a non-threatening atmosphere and environment for refugees to
express feelings bridge cultural barriers in understanding the need for mental
health services
improve the self-esteem of refugee women and children
address mental health needs in order for refugees to be able to attain and
retain employment
offer refugees with limited English skills the opportunity to express
feelings through art, music, and dance therapies
Program Description
The Expressive Arts therapy program meets for three hours every Wednesday.
One hour is devoted to individual therapy with a refugee in need of one to
one attention (individuals change as need dictates). The second hour is
reserved for a women's group where refugee women can "talk" about
transitions and life issues pertinent to them, as well as participate in
Expressive Therapies such as a women's sewing circle, making music,
bringing food, or making art together, to mention a few. The third hour
focuses on refugee children (currently age 3-18). The children can express
feelings related to making friends, attending new schools, and adjusting to
American youth culture. The children, like the women, "talk" by
creating
art, such as "safe boxes," sculptures, and greeting cards, or by
sewing.
Grants
Social
Enterprise Program - Art Relief Therapy
Art
Relief Therapy programs
Green conceived of the idea for A.R.T. two years ago during the Kosovo
refugee crisis. She explained that "I literally woke up in the middle
of
the night and decided I knew exactly what I wanted to do," an inspiration
that led to what A.R.T. is today. Given her skills and abilities and the
crucial need of help in the camps, Green felt "(since I had the) ability
to
make a difference and the ability to learn the skills needed to help…
I had
the obligation to." Business school was the missing link in her skill
set,
bringing her to Columbia last winter.
The original plan was to start A.R.T. a few years after
finishing business
school. When Green began working on the business plan in Launching New
Ventures in the fall, however, she was encouraged by Professor Cliff
Schorer and decided "the time to act on the dream was now." Pribulsky
began
working with Green on the business plan in the class, and Henwood was drawn
to the team after seeing their work towards the end of the semester.
Art Relief Therapy will utilize the power of art to help
children recover
from the devastating trauma of wars and natural disasters. To quote the
business plan, "A.R.T.’s mission is to assist the 11.2 million refugee
children worldwide with the means of articulating and thus beginning
to
resolve - their fears and anger through the arts." A.R.T. will develop
flexible curriculum modules designed by art and trauma therapists that it
will market to existing international relief organizations; in addition, it
will work with existing organizations to develop ongoing community-based
programs that encourage the artistic creativity of traumatized children. To
ensure cultural sensitivity and relevance, A.R.T. field staff will
collaborate with community leaders and existing relief workers to implement
each program.
Art therapy has been shown to provide victims of trauma
with decreased
levels of anxiety, a greater understanding of traumatic episodes, an
increased sense of control, improvements in self-esteem, and fewer violent
episodes. The performing and visual arts therapies include art,
dance/movement, drama, music and psychodrama therapies. One of the benefits
of developing a curriculum around the various forms of art therapies is the
ability to tweak each program to meet the desired needs of a particular
community or culture. A.R.T. will work to enhance existing efforts to
utilize art therapy by creating a standardized curriculum that can be
quickly and easily adapted across cultures in times of crisis....
...A.R.T. will seek funding from the Lang Fund, individual contributions,
corporate donations, and partnerships with international relief
organizations. Green is committed to staying with the project and envisions
the organization moving forward as a "lean and mean" operation that
will
continue through partnerships with existing organizations.
Art Therapy
Student Web site
Children of War:
Performance as Therapy
A World Without
Torture - art therapy used
http://www.irct.org/usr/irct/home.nsf/unid/JREW-5GHJL2
The consequences of torture reach far beyond immediate pain. Many victims
suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which includes symptoms
such as:
flashbacks (or intrusive thoughts)
severe anxiety
insomnia
nightmares
depression
memory lapses.
Torture victims often feel guilt and shame, triggered by
the humiliation
they have endured. Many feel that they have betrayed themselves or their
friends and family. All such symptoms are normal human responses to
abnormal and inhumane treatment.
http://www.refugeesusa.org/help_ref/connections/connApr02.pdf
April 2002 (143kb, 18 pages) Articles in this issue include:
The Body as Voice: Somatic Psychlogy and Dance/Movement
Therapy with
Survivors of War and Torture
Theatre and Healing: Creative Approaches to Addressing Trauma of Forced
Relocation
Telling Our Stories: A Morning of Renewal
Poetry and Journaling: A Chance to Express What Can't Be Said
Music and Healing
The Use of Art as a Stress-Management Technique
The
Use of Art Making in Addressign Fears and Anxiety of Children After
Traumatic Events
ICMC Utilizes
Art Therapy in their approach with Kosovo Refugees
Bosnian
Support Fund supports art therapy approach
Art
Therapy
"Art Therapy is a means of using art for personal expression with
therapeutic intent. The purpose is to empower the individual through a
creative healing process. The psychotherapeutic relationship and the art
making process are the key elements of art therapy. A variety of materials
including clay, paint, pastels, collage, pencils etc are used by the client."
This excerpt was taken from a pamphlet advertising a day
of Art Therapy
held on October 30th this year. It goes on to say that art therapy
workshops can benefit health professionals, social workers, community
workers, therapists, counsellors, teachers, artists, parents and anyone
interested in art therapy. If anyone is interested in knowing more about
this interesting therapy, please contact any of the following facilitations
from the Art Therapy day: Irena Stenner ph: (04) 934 8835; Janie Nott ph:
021 293 5961; Jenny Jordan ph: (04) 386 2891; Mary Brownlow ph: (04) 387
2303; Saskia Cameron ph: (04) 476 1388.
Arts
Medicine:
The Mission:
"To encourage arts and health practitioners
to work together towards
better prevention and management of health issues"
Advances
in Art Therapy - book
Art
Therapy Readings
Art
Therapy In Conflict Situations project
Art
Therapy books
Projects
UK
Refugee and the Arts Initiative
Trauma
Projects
Dominant
Psychological Paradigms in Refugee Literature and Humanitarian
Interventions - Maryanne Loughry
Psychology is the explanation of behaviour and in recent
times has been
used to explain the behaviour of refugees and other forced migrants.
Psychology’s formal origins can only be traced to
a century ago and the
first psychologist Wilhelm Wundt who developed the first laboratory to
explore experimental psychology. While psychology is a reasonably young
discipline it is only very recently that psychology has been recognised as
having a role to play in the examination of forced migration and the impact
it plays on refugees’ lives and how refugees can be assisted to manage
the
experience of force migration.
Below I will outline some of the dominant psychological
paradigms that are
found in refugee literature and humanitarian interventions.
The psychodynamic explanation
One of the early founders of Psychology is Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Freud
has had a strong influence over modern day psychology though he has never
been without detractors. Freud developed a theory of psychoanalysis that
was developed primarily from his casework and his own self-analysis.
Freud’s psychodynamic approach has the following features:
• Behaviour is viewed as driven or motivated by powerful
mental forces and
conflicts within these forces.
• Humans are often unaware of these powerful mental
forces as they are
unconscious forces.
• Human actions stem from the basic biological drives
of sex, hunger and
aggression. These drives are in turn modified by personal needs and
society’s demands to act appropriately.
• Human mechanisms for control are developed in early
childhood and this is
a critical period of development.
• Motivation is a key concept with deprivation, sexual
arousal, conflict
and frustration determining behaviour.
• Humans only stop acting when needs are met and drives reduced.
• Each human is a product of heredity and early childhood experiences.
• A human’s personality is the product of conflict
between personal desires
and social restrictions.
• The structure of the personality consists of:
• The id, the unconscious part of the personality
that stores the basic
drives.
• The superego which is the repository for the individual’s
and society’s
values and norms. The superego closely resembles the conscience.
• The ego which is the individual’s view of reality.
• Conflict between the id and the superego is often
dealt with by defence
mechanisms that push desires out of conscious awareness into the
unconscious. Major defence mechanisms include: denial, displacement,
projection, reaction formation and repression. These mechanisms are mental
strategies that reduce conflict and anxiety in individuals.
Psychotherapeutic interventions with refugees
According to the psychodynamic approach, a person’s reaction to traumatic
experiences depends on the quality of the person’s personality structure.
Remembering that the foundations of this structure were laid down in early
childhood it is necessary to assist the person to return to early points of
conflict in order that they might now be able to address the recent trauma
effectively. The psychodynamic approach is characterised by psychotherapy;
an in-depth form of therapy characterised by intense exploration of the
person’s unconscious motivations and conflicts. Psychotherapy can take
the
form of one-to-one therapy, group therapy, psychodrama and art therapy. All
of these are therapeutic modes for tapping into the unconscious.
Though subject to great criticism for its lack of scientific
evidence the
psychodynamic approach is still a dominant influence in psychology and as
such has influenced the therapeutic interventions used to assist victims of
trauma and torture. The use of psychotherapy is very strong in certain
geographical regions such as Latin America, Europe, Israel and Gaza.
Tortured
artists
Therapist Nicole Heusch helps refugees exorcise their demons
by CRAIG SEGAL
http://www.volunteermatch.org/opps/opp154472.html
Art Teacher
Arlington Diocese Office of Resettlement/USCCB Refugee Services
This Opportunity is Inactive!
Details: For more information, please visit our website
at
www.arlingtonrefugeeservices.com The Refugee Resettlement Office would like
to offer refugee youth and adults the opportunity to express themselves
through various forms of art. A teacher who would facilitate an art class
or classes would be welcome to work with our clients in this way.
Skills: Experience in teaching art or in art therapy. Cross-cultural experience a big plus!
Date Mon Nov 24, 2003 to Sat Feb 28, 2004
4 hours per Month
Address: 80 N. Glebe Rd., Lower Level, Arlington, VA 22203
Categories
Arts & Culture, Immigrants & Refugees, International
Number of Volunteers Needed - 2
Art
Therapy in the Caucasus
"...Artists materials will be supplied and children, both able-bodied
and disabled, will be encouraged to tell their stories through coloured drawings
and paintings. Oxfam will also give some logistic assistance. The co-ordinator
will journey between the various regions and sites during an initial three
week start-up, then return a month later for a ten-day follow up..."
What is Art Therapy?
From: http://www.derby.ac.uk/v-art/definition-art.html
"...The images we make (whether we are artists or not) can act as statements
which provide a focus of sharing, expression and self-evaluation. All picture
making can act in this way whether the images are the first drawings of children,
wall-graffiti, or the `works of art' in galleries and museums. Producing pictures
can provide an opportunity to externalise
thoughts and feelings giving access to unacknowledged conflicts and to deep
personal insights.
Like counsellors, art therapists work with a wide range of people some of whom are defined as suffering from mental illnesses or congenital disorders. However, art therapists also work with rape victims; people who are dying; pre/post operative patients; women expecting babies; trauma victims; people with drug or alcohol dependency or addiction; victims of racist attacks; refugees; abused children etc. In other words, art therapists work with a huge range of people who are struggling with the problems of living or indeed have simply reached a point in their lives when the opportunity for self reflection in a supportive group feels appropriate.
Further information about art therapy in Britain can be obtained from BAAT, Mary Ward House, Tavistock Place, London..."
Great Commission Worship & Arts Center