What is Art Therapy?

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Art therapy addresses challenges throughout the entire spectrum of human situations by utilizing the healing and self-reflective qualities of the creative process. Art therapy is used for therapeutic purposes, as well as prevention and rehabilitation. When working with children, teenagers, and adults, it can be quite beneficial.

The visual and plastic arts have the advantage of allowing direct expression of dreams, fantasies, fears, and other inner sensations by bypassing the sometimes highly contested secondary process of words.

Benefits of Art Therapy?

•  Therapy is capable of promoting self-expression, feelings, and emotions. 
•   It is capable of promoting a sense of personal independence, self-reliance, and self-sufficiency. 
• It encourages the development of healthy coping strategies. 
•  Therapy can facilitate insight, empathy, and acceptance of other’s life challenges. 
•  Therapy has an ability to help one work through difficult experiences.