Taken from Science Daily, here are some articles that got me thinking. Hopefully you’ll find them inspirational too.
2006: A study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management found that art therapy can reduce a broad spectrum of symptoms related to pain and anxiety in cancer patients.
2008: Art Therapy Useful to Treat Mental [...]
Green Youth Arts and Media Center, an Art in Action sub-project, is set to open in mid January with state of the art computers, high-end software and recording studios. They’re planning to serve more than 200 Oakland inner city youth who are coping with gangs, violence and struggling to stay hopeful. According to the SF [...]
Here are a few other responses regarding the media’s, bloggers’ and twitterers’ recent comments about art therapy’s role in the rehabilitation of terrorists.
The American Art Therapy Association’s response (way to wash your hands of Dr. Alyami’s work).
Cathy Malchiodi’s response on her Psychology Today Blog, Did Art Therapy Fail to Rehab Terrorists? Oh Come On
Erin [...]
I suppose some bad press about art therapy is kind of a good thing. Finally it’s big enough to be on people’s radar.
Yesterday, it was reported that two released Guantanamo prisoners who received rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia, which included art therapy, were behind the terrorist plot to blow up a plane headed from Amsterdam [...]
Les Impatients and the Wellington Center in Montreal, Canada, have teamed up to bring art therapy to the Douglas Hospital’s outpatients who receive community mental health and rehabilitation services.
Here’s an article from CTV news and a video describing the new art therapy partnership.
Read a Brief article on how a Madoff victim uses art therapy.
British actor uses art therapy to tackle drug addiction.
In Napa Valley California, Aldea uses art therapy calendar to raise funds and awareness of art therapy. Read about it here.
Art therapy can improve the Quality of life for Alzheimer’s patients.
Art and music therapy are at [...]
The Combat Paper Project encourages Iraq war veterans to create art pieces integrating their uniforms with paper making techniques in Savannah, GA.
Read about Poppy Scheibel’s work with Alzheimer’s patients in the Sarasota-Manatee Florida area.
Studio Sfumato in Oregon teams up with the Children’s Advocacy Center to provide a 5 week art therapy program and fundraising project [...]
A quick blurb about an Art Therapy bereavement group in Fallbrook, CA
An article explaining how art making helped a woman who suffered from a traumatic brain injury after slipping on some black ice. Her artwork is being exhibited through September at Gritman Medical Center Conference Center in Moscow, ID.
Read about Dawn Freeman’s art therapy [...]
Read about Jean Tait, an aboriginal art therapist in Alberta Canada who just started a private practice.
In Chapel Hill, NC, the Art Therapy Institute teams up with the Newcomer Center, creating an art exhibit composed of the artwork of Burmese refugees. Read the article here.
NYU art professor and Goodwill Ambassador, Ross Bleckner, helps traumatized children [...]
