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The Healing Art of Clay Therapy Patricia Sherwood
Publisher: Acer Press

Engaging in the art process can be a way to sublimate that anger in a safe and non-destructive way (pounding on a lump of clay or ripping paper for a collage can be safer but just as satisfying as breaking a window or punching someone). More recently, I started providing “webinars” on Art Therapy and various topics, which are seminars conducted on the internet – where people can earn continuing educational credits from the comfort of their home or office. Expressive therapies – sand play, dream work, art and clay creations, drama and narrative – are tools she feels to be central to the therapeutic challenge of individual change, healthy relationship building, and integrative healing. Saturday, 20 April 2013 at 10:19. The Healing Art of Clay Therapy book download. Patients are being encouraged to express their fears and hopes through drawing, journaling, storytelling, writing poetry, creating music, working with clay, and using other artistic mediums. Started in 2004, the Children's Healing Arts Program pairs Pewabic Pottery artists with young patients at Children's Hospital. Is there Evidence for the Healing Power of Art? Download The Healing Art of Clay Therapy Therkleston, T and Sherwood, P (2004) Complementary Therapies: the. Published on February 23, 2010 by Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT in The Healing Arts. But Pat, a 14-year-old boy, had decided to produce a family of seals. Cool Art Therapy Intervention #9: Family Sculpture. Art therapy is a creative healing method to help people express themselves through art. Practicing clay therapists believe that the clay itself provides a healing experience for clients (Sherwood, 2004). €�One of their favorite projects is to paint pillowcases for their beds,” said Grace Serra, Art focuses less on the therapeutic movements of doing art and more on the creative process. Their canvas is everything from bed sheets, pillowcases, torn paper and pinch pots to tiles, clay beads and colored sand. It's more art-making than art therapy.”. The assignment was to create a seal out of a lump of clay. He made seals of different sizes: A big Works from the art therapy process reveal and heal the inside worlds of young offenders _ their yearning for love and understanding, their lack of problem solving skills and hope for the new chapter of life. Family sculpture-- bringing family relationships to life in clay. Many medical professionals have given art therapy the thumbs up as well, noting that patients who receive art therapy are less depressed, more relaxed, and more cooperative than patients who do not receive adjunct therapies.