Art Therapy Activities : Art Therapy and Brain Injury Video Lecture | Art Therapy: The Power of Healing - Art & Craft

I'm Deb shoemaker and I'm an art
therapist with integrated therapy
associates and now I'm going to present
to you some basic techniques and how art
therapy can be used with people who have
brain injuries it again depends on the
individual and the severity of of the
brain injury one particular client that
I had worked with for about two years
suffered from a traumatic brain injury
one of the areas of his brain that were
affected where his being able to
identify feelings and communicating
those was verbal but wasn't able to
articulate so we would use art therapy
sessions to do an art journal together
so I would write because he could
clearly read and comprehend reading I
would write a scenario on top of the
sketchbook page and then I would give
him the pen and he would draw a picture
about it and then he would give me the
sketchbook back and then I would write
like a and then then white or the next
thing or how would that develop and hand
it back to him and then he would create
a drawing about that there's a another
technique I have used with people who
have traumatic brain injuries or
acquired brain injuries we're we're
using art as therapy so that's a
different thing than the like artist
psychotherapy so art as Sarah P we're
actually using more goals like an
occupational therapist might use how to
grip the marker using your fine motor
skills or your gross motor skills so the
art becomes actually kind of like a PT
or ot experience along with the
emotional piece to it so I may have
adaptive equipment for the person if
maybe they don't have their fine motor
skills anymore because of the brain
injury or they're working to regain
those and that was some basic
information about how our therapy can be
used with people who have brain injuries