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Alternative Medicine Healing Through Arts PsychotherapyArt therapy is founded on the principle that the artistic process involved in creative self-expression can facilitate the resolution of conflicts and problems. Some of these resolutions can improve interpersonal abilities, control behavior, reduce anxiety, boost confidence and self-awareness, and achieve insight. These are all possible because counseling models as well as psychotherapy are integrated with visual art and human development. This makes this therapy highly applicable to people of all ages, even families, and especially children who respond to colors. How does this alternative medicine healing work? Arts therapy creates the opportunity to express the patients' thoughts and emotions in their art work that is akin to a non-verbal communication. It allows them to express how they feel if they could not verbalize it to better cope with stress, develop insight as well as fair judgment. With a qualified art therapist, the patient can be guided as they explore their personal issues in the medium they are most comfortable with in a space where they feel safe and unthreatened. It gives voice to children, adolescents and adults through expressive arts. When words cannot be summoned to describe how one feels or thinks, it is an effective expression or communication because art conveys thoughts and emotions. It is a language that needs no words. The artwork and the process of creating artwork are avenues of communication that therapists and patients can explore together to better understand what the patient cannot verbalize. These are also used to help the patients cope with their own sufferings. The success of this therapy is reflected in its popular use in wellness centers, hospitals, educational institutions, and private clinics. These are adopted in many centers which house programs intended to help people with serious problems like abuse among children, teen pregnancies, substance abuse, mental illness, disability and trauma. This is an ideal alternative healing approach that can be combined with any Western and other alternative treatments. This takes a very special form of alternative healing therapy for children.
How does creative arts therapy work with kids? Children who are traumatized by a bad experience or a serious ailment have to deal with a lot of stress and even depression. Their inability to verbalize their anxieties borne of not understanding their situation or fear can give them nightmares and make them suffer from loss of self-esteem. They manifest these in tantrums, depression, weight loss or excessive weight gain, and poor social skills among others. The worst scenario is these kids living a miserable life and growing up to become social failures. The arts therapy when delivered by experts can help communicate to the child assurances of safety that they need to be able to transcend their negative feelings. Experts can combine this therapy with other alternative healing techniques including Western medicine to address physical, emotional and mental problems. Hospitals with these kinds of programs can help children identify their source of fear to be able to treat them and help them function as normal as possible in the society. Since there are only few hospitals with such kinds of facilities and programs, concerned parents and adults need to consider finding help once the kid has been discharged from the hospital. The hospital can be a good source of references to find help outside. If the child is responding well to the art therapists in the hospital, then arrange for some sort of out-patient therapies with the same therapists and/or hospital. One may also search for therapists through the Internet or professional groups with local chapters in the locale. Sick children deserve all the help they can get. When dealing with kids, any Western medicine treatments can always be better enhanced when combined with alternative medicine healing techniques using art therapy. Art therapy can be their voice and their treatment. |
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