Browsing by Subject "Narrative therapy"

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    Narrative and Art Therapy for Students with Learning Differences: An Integrative Literature Review and Picture Book
    (2020) Pulos, Kaitlyn; Leigh, Heather
    The ability to regulate emotions is a key therapeutic need for students with learning difference that presents challenges to their emotional health, and also impacts their academic performance and social interactions in the school setting. An integrative literature review was conducted to explore the therapeutic possibility of combining narrative therapy and art therapy for students with learning differences. Five areas of the literature were examined and integrated: learning differences, therapeutic treatment of students with learning differences in the school setting, emotional regulation, narrative therapy, and art therapy. An additional search was conducted to find published narrative and picture-based books related to emotional regulation used in a school setting. The resulting data was used to support the creation of a narrative therapeutic tool for art therapists and related professionals such as school counselors to use with this population. A Creative Safari asks the reader/client to respond to various emotional-focused prompts creatively using art-making throughout the entire story. This unique approach combines elements from art therapy and narrative therapy, two approaches found to be beneficial for this population in the literature. Recommendations for further research include field testing of A Creative Safari by art therapists and counselors to further refine this tool.
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    A Narrative Approach to Art Therapy for Life Review as a Means to Increase Mood in an Elder Community
    (2017) Kelley, E'lisa; Misluk, Eileen; King, Juliet
    This human-subject study used a quantitative research design to identify if participation in individual art therapy sessions designed to explore life review through a narrative approach would increase mood in older adults. It was hypothesized that elders (ages 65+) who participated in six individual art therapy sessions, once a week, over the course of six weeks, would show an increase in mood. An increase in mood is defined as a decrease in depressive symptomology. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) provided a baseline measure of depressive symptomologies, rather than a diagnosis of depression. The average difference of individual’s pre-and-post BDI-II scores were used to identify if a change in mood occurred as a result of participation in the study. Participants used artmaking and storytelling as a means to engage in a life review process. The use of story stems and collage were the primary means of engaging in the study. The results showed that participants’ average BDI-II scores decreased post-study. These findings provide support for the use of a narrative approach to art therapy to explore life review as a means to increase mood in older adults. Future implications of this study include continuing to explore the correlations between art therapy and life review as a means of building ego integrity, a deeper review of the artwork created as a response to the story stem, and additional research on the use of the BDI-II for a measure of increased mood. The study provides quantitative support for the use of a narrative approach to art therapy as a means to increase mood in an aging population.