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What Is Art Therapy?

Medically reviewed by Amy Morin, LCSW Fact checked by Aaron Johnson Key Takeaways Art therapy uses creating art to help ...
Art therapy uses creativity to help express and manage emotions. You don't need to be skilled at art to benefit from art ...
[Image above courtesy the artist: “Grenade Head,” by Peter J Buotte, digitally-milled aluminum, detonator fuze, 2005.] Most people may be familiar with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and other ...
When San Jose State University student Kenneth speaks of putting on white noise to calm his thoughts or opening his Notes app to sort through emotional clutter, he is doing more than coping. He is ...
New research from King's College London reveals that viewing original artworks can significantly reduce stress and inflammation. Participants who saw ...
When last we saw Cindy Rodriguez, she was poking among tombstones at Easton Cemetery, looking for wandering spirits and even finding a few, if you can credit the findings of the modern ghost hunter’s ...
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 ...