Art Therapy Activities : Art Therapy for Depression Video Lecture | Art Therapy: The Power of Healing - Art & Craft

my name is Deb shoemaker and I'm an art
therapist with integrative therapy
associates and now I'm going to present
to you some basic information on how art
therapy can be used with people who have
depression one of the first things that
art therapy is useful in is in the
graphic indicators to verify that as a
diagnosis because people who are
depressed it really shows in their
artwork because when you don't have the
energy to hardly you know get out of bed
when you're drawing oftentimes there
there may just be one color or them and
maybe even pencil lightly drawn hardly
seen very tiny so if you it's just the
the artwork looks depressed so there's
really graphic indicators for depression
so the art therapy can be a place to
maybe work on where was the origins of
the depression so was it a traumatic
event or was it grief and loss if it
were those kinds of things we can use
the art to get those those feelings out
and expressed and and then that starts
the healing process to be able to have
the energy to move on and and then those
are indicators graphic indicators also
because we can clearly see in the
artwork when there starts to be color or
starts to be more details or larger
images and that was some basic
information about how art therapy is
used with people who have depression