Visual Art Making for Therapist Growth and Self-Care

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Lewis Harter
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Art Making

Materializing Dying: Art and Mattering

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 716-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jody Thomson
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Art Therapy ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Art Making

In this article, the author takes a post-anthropocentric (re)turn to matter and mattering, using art-making-as-inquiry to think-feel about the ways in which art and matter matters in end-of-life art therapy. Visual art-making and new materialist theories are entangled with(in) stories from clinical end-of-life art therapy practice, textually and texturally performing how it is to work with affect, vibrant matter, vulnerability, and death. It is based on a symposium presented by four researchers at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in 2018 titled “Material Methods,” each mobilizing creative practices to think about death, and transformation.

scholarly journals Let the Atrocious Images Haunt Us—Encounters with Conflict and Connection in Visual Art-Making

2020 ◽  
pp. 194084472094807
Author(s):  
Alison Rouse
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Journal Writing ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Living Room ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Cultural Layers

In the relative comfort of my UK living room, a passive spectator of TV news, I watch fleeting images of appalling suffering and devastation emanating from the war in Syria. The coverage of the bombing of Aleppo (2015) is heart-rending. I turn to art in response, to slow the disappearance of visual images and to counter my sense of remove. This begins as self-activism, drawing/painting-as-inquiry, in combination with journal writing. As the work progresses, portraits burst out of the sketchbook and claim space to speak for themselves, demanding a place in the wider world, their own artivism. What they communicate to each viewer will vary—a commentary on war, on a country’s response to migration, or a call to action for what might be different? The inquiry moves through personal and cultural layers of a creative process to question what art does, and what it fails to do, in the context of this project and activism. Art’s potential, through the acts of looking and making, to affect is central to the sequence of encounters (connections and disconnections), which are examined here.

Stories Painting Pictures <<>> Pictures Painting Stories

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-47
Author(s):  
Jody Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Art Therapy ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Art Therapists ◽  
Collective Biography

In this essay, I work with the stories and artwork generated by a small group of visual art therapists who came together in a collective biography workshop. All of the participants, including the author, specialize in end-of-life and palliative art therapy. As a collective, we worked to bring our experiences back to our bodies through stories, art-making, and writing, to explore how working with people in the last days, weeks, or months of their lives affects us. In this essay I ask: What happens when stories paint pictures, and when pictures paint stories, to make visible our experiences of death, vulnerability, and love—experiences that might otherwise have been impossible to know?

The beneficial attributes of visual art-making in cancer care: An integrative review

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. e12663 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Ennis ◽  
M. Kirshbaum ◽  
N. Waheed
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Care ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Art Making

Art in cancer care: Exploring the role of visual art-making programs within an Energy Restoration Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 71-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilynne N. Kirshbaum ◽  
Gretchen Ennis ◽  
Nasreena Waheed ◽  
Fiona Carter
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Care ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Art Making

scholarly journals Self Care Management Activities to Improve Psychological Serenity of Cancer Patients

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
Anastasia Diah Larasati ◽  
Aditya Firman Nugroho ◽  
Maria Marlina Tei
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Holistic Nursing ◽  
Self Talk ◽  
Psychological Assistance

Cancer patients need intensive psychological assistance when undergoing the process of cancer treatment. Nurses have a duty to provide holistic nursing care, namely by handling psychological serenity in cancer patients. The purpose of making this study is to provide scientific information to nurses related to self care management activities that can be educated to patients in order to provide psychological calm while undergoing treatment independently. The design used was a literature review study, using various databased CINAHL, PubMed, Science Direct, Google Schoolar, and Medline. Searching for articles was carried out by collecting themes about Self Care Management, Nursing Activities and Psychological Serenity of cancer patients. The criterion for inclusion in the search for literature sources is the year the article was published, starting from 2010 to 2020, in English, and full article. Search keywords are self care management, nursing activities, self activities, self care, psychological serenity, and psychological problems. A total of 25 articles were analyzed and produced 6 themes, including sports, self-management through spiritual activities, shared care with health practitioners or fellow cancer survivors, implementing positive self talk, listening to instrumental music therapy, and doing art making and art therapy. The application of appropriate innovation selfcare management to the psychological symptoms of cancer patients can also help improve the Quality of Life of cancer patients.

Inside and Outside: High School Students Increasing Self and Social Awareness through Art Making

2014 ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
Ahran Koo
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Art Making ◽  
School Students ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
High School Setting

Creating and talking about visual art with other people is an effective method to evoke multiple dialogues about identity and social phenomena. This form of discourse, in which visual language and cultural and social expressions are intertwined, helps people better understand themselves and other human beings. Artmaking can be a process of learning about human lives (Leavy, 2015). Through discussing several artmaking approaches in a Korean high school setting, I will argue for the importance of art in terms of its effectiveness in encouraging students to reflect on their identity and social problems that influence them and the greater community. Many high school students are struggling with the concerns of dealing with intense competition, their future careers and other people’s judgements of them. At the same time, they are at a dramatic turn in their lives, where they are charting their future direction and where they should not forget about their roles as members of society. The visual stories that contain individual students’ lived experiences and emotions about their concerns illustrate the multiple layers of living as human beings in a complex society.

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