Art therapy empowers children to develop coping skills, build self-esteem, and find healing by using creativity as a means to communicate without words.

Discover the benefits of art therapy and children and how it can help with stress, communication, self-expression, emotional regulation, and cognitive functioning. Also, learn about different art therapy techniques and how to choose an art therapist for your child.

Learn 15 simple anxiety art therapy activities that can help reduce anxiety and lower stress. Feel calm instantly! Art Therapy Activities for Adults

Our therapist-created, free therapy worksheets, mental health resources, self-help guides & workbooks are designed to support the therapy process

Expressive Therapies Continuum provides a framework for assessment, formulation of treatment goals, and planning of art therapy interventions.

Art therapy activities for self-awareness are the perfect choice for an at-home, self-directed therapy. You can make them a part of your self-care practice. These activities will raise your self-aw…

How to Draw Your Feelings / Paint Your Emotions Hello friends, today, I'll show you how to draw and paint your feelings. This easy, beginner friendly therapeutic art exercise will help you express yourself and use art as an outlet for your feelings. I’m Youhjung and I do art as therapy with peopl

Core vocabulary is an evidenced-based set of words particularly useful for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) users. I've personally seen huge growth in expressive language skills of AAC users after only a few therapy sessions of instruction with core words. Core words are what make up 80% of our everyday utterances. The power of core words lies within

Worry Group Art Activity: Help your students in worry group personify their worries by making a worry monster with watercolors and deep breathing!

"The healthiest form of projection is art" ~ Fritz Perls Here is a popular internet list of art therapy activities originally posted up in 2011 by the Nursing School Blog. I have since taken over the list and I consistently research current links that reflect the most inspiring art therapy...

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Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing, A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping, by Cornelia Elbrecht, is an in-depth instructional textbook for the somatic therapeutic approach Guided Drawing. Based on leading edge understandings about trauma healing and the body (sensorimotor psychotherapy, somatic experiencing, etc.), this book is a treasure trove of trauma healing knowledge, insights and clarifications. Guided Drawing effectively weaves together a number of different therapeutic processes creating a multifaceted and holistic trauma therapy. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in somatic therapies, expressive arts therapies and trauma healing modalities, tools and techniques.

Looking for art therapy exercises to stop racing thoughts? Check out these 10 drawing-based art therapy prompts for people with racing thoughts!

These art therapy for kids projects are a great way to help children deal with trauma, anger, or grief, and as part of therapy for kids with special needs.

You don’t have to be an artist to benefit from art therapy activities. Because art therapy activities are specifically designed so that anyone can do them, regardless of their artistic abilities. A…

Art Therapy Activity For Emotional Pain / Self Healing If you are dealing with any emotional pain or trying to heal your inner self, this is for you. Maybe you're dealing with heavy emotions, painful emotions, that have been a consistent presence in your life.

With the help of these 20 different therapeutic art activities, you can find out if art therapy works to reduce stress and improve your health as a whole

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How Nonclinical ‘Art as Therapy’ Looks Different (Detailed Comparison with Clinical Art Therapy) Today we’re going to go in-depth on non-clinical art therapy service, and how that looks different from clinical art therapy. If you don’t know what nonclinical art as therapy (aka therapeutic art) vs.

Looking for a fun, easy and engaging art lesson for students in grades k-5 that teaches students about color mixing but with a focus on SEL? This is the perfect arts integrated lesson!

oil pastel & watercolor ~ Sara Roizen “It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” ~ Leonardo Da Vinci It was pouring rain as I headed deep into Brooklyn to lead one of my art therapy groups at a residential building for adults living with chronic mental illness. It seemed fitting...

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Looking for a fun, easy and engaging art lesson for students in grades k-5 that teaches students about color mixing but with a focus on SEL? This is the perfect arts integrated lesson!

Unlock the power of language development with these Expanding Utterances Interactive Books for Increasing MLU. Tailored to facilitate the natural progression of expanding utterances beyond one word, these engaging interactive books serve as a logical next step for children to move towards using two-word phrases. Designed with the aim of increasing Mean Length of Utterance (MLU), these books employ real photos, making them an ideal resource for the autistic population and early communicators alike. Within this set of three interactive books, students delve into forming verb+object and adjective+noun phrases using visual symbols. The two verb+object books showcase real photos and familiar vocabulary, encouraging students to combine verbs and direct objects to craft new phrases. The result is a functional and practical expansion of MLU, with real-life images enhancing the interactive book experience. In addition, the adjective+noun book introduces students to color words and simple nouns, prompting them to describe and differentiate objects beyond basic labels. Through this interactive exploration, students discover the nuances of language, transitioning from mere one-word expressions to more sophisticated two-word phrases. Elevate your speech therapy sessions with these thoughtfully crafted books that not only foster vocabulary development but also make language expansion a dynamic and enjoyable journey for young learners. → What's Included? Book 1: Real photos 18 pages, plus cover (half a sheet of paper each) 4 verb visual symbols 11 noun (direct object) visual symbols Book 2: Real photos 24 pages, plus cover (half a sheet of paper each) 4 verb visual symbols 14 noun (direct object) visual symbols Book 3: 12 pages, plus cover (half a sheet of paper each) 16 adjective visual symbols (two of each color) 8 noun visual symbols for four different nouns You Might Also Like... Animal Action Photos Interactive Books to Increase MLU Expand Utterances BUNDLE Expanding Utterances: Interactive Books to Increase MLU - Winter Expanding Utterances Basic Concepts Interactive Books to Increase MLU The entire collection of resources targeting increasing MLU! ☠ Click here to follow Speech Language Pirates and stay up to date on the latest resources, freebies, and special promotions!

Giving students opportunities to share their interests, explore their identities and self-assess their personal awareness are essential parts of the new British Columbia curriculum. We found a fun and engaging way for students to tackle these competencies this year. Early in the year, our students worked to cover each others' faces in plaster strips. (You can purchase this at any art store, like Michaels.) It usually comes in large strips, so you'll need to cut them down ahead of time. Students just wet them with water and smooth on. Don't forget to coat the face in LOTS of Vaseline first so the mask comes off easily. We dimmed the lights and played some soothing music. The students were very kind and compassionate to one another. We heard things like: "You're doing great! We are nearly finished." "Do you want me to cover your nose first, or your mouth first?" "Just take deep breaths, you're doing awesome." It was a great strengthening activity for our growing community. The masks sat in the cupboard, tucked away until January. We just had too much going on to tackle this job until then. In the end, I actually think this turned out well, because the students thought deeply for months about the pieces they were going to use to represent themselves. Once it was "go time" they had very little trouble stating what they were going to use and why. As a group, we built criteria for the masks. You can see it in the image below. If you do this task, I encourage you to build criteria with your students as well, but you're welcome to download a PDF of the criteria sheet we used. This is my mask. I shared it with the students as an example of meeting the design element criteria, but also as an example of justifying choices. I wrote 5 different versions of my justification, with varying levels of description and attention to punctuation and spelling. Students had to debate the order from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest). Once determined, these were placed on a bulletin board in the room and used as a reference/self-assessment tool for the writing piece (more on that below) that accompanied their masks. This mask belongs to one of my students. I love the soccer ball background and the fact that he was comfortable enough to add the flowers to honour the nickname his mother has for him. Here are the masks all up in the hallway. You can see in this photo the writing pieces students did to accompany their masks. Students were to write to justify each piece placed on their mask. They had to state how it represented their unique personal or cultural identity. They were not able to say things like "I like to read, so I put on a book." It had to be much deeper than this and really connect to who they were. The majority of the students nailed this job! One of my favourite pieces of writing. This child is so insightful. Although her mask is not as eyecatching as the designs of some others she was accurately able to justify each piece she selected and how it represents her personal and cultural identity. Finally, students used the Positive Personal and Cultural Identity core competency to self assess. I gave them the profiles directly off of the Ministry site. I had a copy under the document camera and we discussed what the vocabulary meant. I was a bit nervous that it would be too wordy for my students, but it really wasn't. Even at grade 3 and 4 they were completely able to understand the profiles. We shared as a class some examples of each others' work that represented the profiles. Finally, students wrote a number in a circle at the top of their paper of the profile number where they felt their work best fit. I was so impressed with how accurately they did this. No one selected the top profile. It was a very powerful little activity! Next year, I'll be sure to do this task again. I loved seeing the masks grace our hallway each day. Such a wonderful way to bring us all together and understand each other a little more. Pin this post.

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