The use of art therapy in a residential setting: design interventions and therapuetic art making.

Siegel Vattuone, Rebecca Joy (2003) The use of art therapy in a residential setting: design interventions and therapuetic art making.. Master's Thesis, Department of Counseling and Family Therapy, Central Connecticut State University.

Abstract

Art therapy provides a nonverbal therapuetic modality in which individuals are able to create images of sentiments, cognitions, and happenings in their world. Developmentally, children struggle with tasks of representing these abstract items into words.