Art Therapy basics
The arts in art therapy is said to be a vessel for emotion, why?
The images help capture and hold emotions until the client is ready to talk about them.
Do the arts in Art Therapy have a different aesthetic than the arts in Visual Arts?
Yes, the arts in art therapy are not always based on skills and presentation.
The Expressive Therapies Continuum is basically what type of structure?
A scaffold.
What is brain lateralization?
This refers to two sides of the brain, the left, and right hemispheres.
Art therapy is never provided to clients in a structured manner.
False sometimes art therapy benefits clients if the art is more structured in presentation; both structured and unstructured presentations are important.
What is one of three words used to describe the term Aesthetic?
Beauty
What are the core components of the Scaffold in the Expressive Therapies Continuum?
Task complexity, structure and of media properties
What can impact brain function?
Brain incidents such as strokes, brain injury, lack of oxygen, toxic substances, and chemical imbalances (such as those present in depression) can impact brain function.
What pieces are necessary for art therapy to be art therapy?
Materials, client, therapist
Are Aesthetics Unique to Art?
no
What is menat by a structured material and an unstructured material?>
A structured material has safety concerns, boundaries and rules. An unstructured material has loose boundaries and tend to enhance creativity.
What does a resistive material do?
It tends to reuire cognitive skills and symbolic content but can elicite more emotions.
How s metaphor important in art therapy?
The use of metaphor and symbol as a way to let unconscious thoughts be transformed into imagery
What term used to describe Aesthetic means to have an immediate, intent response?
Resonance
What is the difference between low complexity and high complexity?
Low complexity materials allow more emphasis on media properties or symbolic data. High complexity materials require structure and problem solving.
What does a fluid media do?
Enhances affective response.
Which is more important in art therapy, process or product?
Both can be equally important.
A set of principles that determine beauty, value. Acts as a Guiding principle.
What are Aesthetics?!
Name the variables that describe the media properties of the ETC.
Kinesthetic, Sensory, Perceptual, Affective, cognitive, symbolic
What processes describe the affect media properties have on the brain, as they either inhibit or enhance the brain activity of an individual.
Entrainment, Resonance and isomorphism