Supporting For Art
With the current hard living times, economically and socially, people experience situations, either individually or as a group. As a solution to these, art therapy presents a favorable chance to inquire in to intense feelings in thought of the two above in a surrounding that is favorable. By using a broad diversity of artistic materials, a person can bring in to existence a thought or a feeling in a manner that is visible to the audience. Although inclined towards specific groups, art therapy can therefore apply to such group circumstances or to individuals. In the quest to establish solutions to problems affecting patients in psychiatric hospitals, artists in the 1940s realized that a patient’s creativity could be a superior mode of communicating reproducing patient’s invisible emotional sensations, which can assist caretakers to understand better their patients hence better healing (Pifalo, “Art Therapy”). With such an important contribution to the health sector, art therapy is a powerful tool that can assist to understand mentally and emotionally agitated children and help them recover from domestic violence.
It is with no doubt that, the current world has difficulties that need serious solutions at different levels of undertakings in our day-to-day lives. To inquire on to the deeper feelings of an individual, art therapy has the capability to present the powerful, sensitive and other times negatively critical feeling of a person in a safer way (Pifalo, “Art Therapy”). For people in the working class, at any level, art therapy can manage, stress and anxiety. Therefore, affected people it can help to explore internal problems without external interferences. With unknown effect of domestic violence within the society, experts trying to solve this vice continue to establish ways of treating it. Because each patient has unique experience of domestic violence, it requires different approaches to treat (Malchiodi 2).
In order to deal with such difficult situations effectively, professional known as art therapists who understand well the development of human beings in physical, psychological and spiritual aspects carry out art therapy. Because of their proper understanding, they can treat research and offer consultancy to relevant fields. In addition, they are capable of working with all walks of people, from the young to the old, and in their different organizations within the society. To children, art therapy groups helps to create safe environments when they can not trust in verbal communications and those who do not disclose their feeling by words concerning their traumas, art therapy present peace to children and thus a easy way to understanding them (Shaila, “Art and Design”).
With a wide representations of the artistic materials, therapists are able to classify the out comes of the artistic creations by the young ones accordingly depending on the nature and degree of abuse. Thus a “therapist can determine baseline functioning and formulate short-term goals and therapeutic strategies” (Malchiodi 50). In order to execute the strategies appropriately, initial assessment is necessary to understand well how to apply professional expertise. These initial evaluations act as reference points for the child’s condition, which helps monitoring of his/her progress. Despite the fact that some children can have low attention capabilities, the wide representation of solutions by art therapy, can allow children with such difficulties to better their positive thinking, establish solutions to their emotional disturbances, understand better about their spiritual needs and the external interferences. Consequently, they can be able to communicate to other people easily in a manner that could otherwise not be possible by use other means. It becomes necessary for the children to create trust and confidence in the caretaker to allow control over the child and this helps dictates the rate of response of the child to the treatment (Malchiodi 53).
From the child’s creation such as drawings, human drawings tend to expose the positive and negative happenings to the child. That is why it becomes important to undertake initial assessments because interpretation of some images can be wrong especially for children with difficulties in supplementing with verbal communication. Depending on the prevailing conditions and available time, other instinctive drawings with choice of materials can indicate the degree of suffering. In addition, since different locations have different cultures, the interpretation of child’s creative works should align with the child’s background showing the importance of art in culture of different groups because they form an important component in examination of art activities and products. As the artistic levels of a child develop as the child grows, noting the obvious level of development of the child is crucial because one can note whenever a child presents unusual drawings.
Differently, visual schemes to children have standard representations for people drawings and other surrounding items (Malchiodi 72) with a considerable concern on size showing what has a great meaning on the drawing.
In conclusion, art evaluation is a useful tool in assessing the child’s initial status concerning abuse, which enables execution of the immediate necessary measures forming a reference point for the condition of the child in the long-term strategy. This helps the child to deal with the problem by presenting the appropriate environment through art. Moreover, the use of art helps therapists to understand the experiences of the abused child and help for a better recovery and then finally art therapy can present new skills for children to cop with challenging situations. Therefore, it is certain that art therapy is a powerful tool that can assist to understand mentally and emotionally agitated children and help them recover from domestic violence.
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