Art Therapy Activities Art Therapy Activities for Adults Video Lecture

I'm Deb shoemaker and I'm an art
therapist with integrated therapy
associates and now I'm going to present
to you some information about some
directives that I use in art therapy
with adults it's quite different from
working with children and it really
again depends on the individual in my
private practice most of the adults who
come to see me want to come to art
therapy so they have an interest in
their creative side already the adults
that come to art therapy of course have
adult issues and those range from mood
disorders like depression and anxiety to
grief and loss or anger self-esteem
issues and trauma and so the art workers
are just a really great bridge and a
safe way to to open up that dialogue I
would spend a few minutes in the
beginning of the session checking in on
how things are going I will say you know
you were really talking about how you
felt anxious at work this week why don't
we use that topic to create your artwork
around that I usually say create an
image you may have noticed that I don't
ever say draw a picture hardly ever do I
say that I think that implies to people
that I'm looking for
something that looks like a house a tree
a person so I think Joanna mentioned
that's more open-ended I think to merge
in the image that were connectors for
that person or what what they were
feeling or helping them just process
through and thanks getting that those
feelings out in two ways one is they're
verbalizing it and then the artwork just
helping them process those feelings and
fuel them and that was some basic
information about some directives that I
use with adults in art therapy