Dual art therapy, combining music and painting, significantly improved symptoms, cognitive function, and quality of life in ...

From left, Caroline Fisher and Patty Coulter have partnered with Franciscan Health Indianapolis and Beacon of Hope Crisis Center are offering a new program to help victims: Take It Out In Art! The ...

Art therapy is defined by the American Art Therapy Association as utilizing “active art-making, the creative process, and applied psychological theory—within a psychotherapeutic relationship—to enrich ...

Art therapy encourages creative expression through painting, drawing, or modelling. It may work by providing a person with a safe space to express their feelings and allow them to feel more in control ...

Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

In 1969, the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) was co-founded by Myra Levick, PhD, who also co-founded the world’s first graduate program in arts therapy to matriculate students at the ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can occur after a person experiences psychological trauma. Typically, PTSD treatment involves certain types of therapy, which ...

The creation of art has been a healing technique for millennia, evidence of which can be found in many cultures and traditions all over the world. But only recently, in the 1940s, did art and ...

Have you ever had pent-up stress that you couldn’t express in words? Or feelings you didn’t want to share because they felt too painful or shameful? Art therapy is one way to release stress. It’s all ...