Does Art Therapy Work? Identifying the Active Ingredients of Art Therapy Efficacy

Kapitan, Lynn

doi:10.1080/07421656.2012.684292

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“…Interestingly, both British and American art therapists have identified the description of practice and exploration of how art therapy works as a research priority at exactly the same point (Kapitan, 2012;Thorne, 2011). Prominent researchers from the common mechanism of change approach concur, and suggest a tantalising potential for such research:…”

Section: Art Therapy Mechanisms Of Change and Clinical Effectivenessmentioning

confidence: 97%

Reflect Interview using audio-image recording: Development and feasibility study

Springham¹,

Brooker²

2013

International Journal of Art Therapy

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Section: Art Therapy Mechanisms Of Change and Clinical Effectivenessmentioning

confidence: 97%

Reflect Interview using audio-image recording: Development and feasibility study

Springham¹,

Brooker²

2013

International Journal of Art Therapy

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“…Art therapy has been hypothesized to be an effective mindfulness strategy that alleviates symptoms of anxiety through cognitive easing . Prior observational studies have shown that art therapy can reduce symptoms of anxiety in healthy university students and oncology patients in a hospital setting …”

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“…14,15 Prior observational studies have shown that art therapy can reduce symptoms of anxiety in healthy university students and oncology patients in a hospital setting. [16][17][18][19] Abbing et al, 20 in their 2018 review of the effectiveness of art therapy on anxiety in adults, identified only three studies with a total of 162 patients and concluded that the small sample size and large heterogeneity within the data set made it impossible to perform a meta-analysis. Many systematic reviews evaluating art therapy as a treatment for anxiety suggest potential benefit but conclude that more well-designed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are required.…”

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Randomized Controlled Trial of Adult Therapeutic Coloring for the Management of Significant Anxiety in the Emergency Department

Rajendran

Mitra

Shahrestani

et al. 2020

Academic Emergency Medicine

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Background Anxiety and acute distress are significant concerns in the emergency department (ED). Adult coloring books are often utilized as an effective means of relaxation in waiting rooms and newsstands, but there are no reported randomized trials examining their effectiveness as a treatment for anxiety. Methods We set out to examine the effectiveness of adult coloring books using a randomized placebo‐controlled trial at a university‐affiliated tertiary ED. Anxiety was measured using a validated self‐reporting score, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS‐A), with a range of 0 to 21. Patients with HADS‐A ≥ 7 were randomly assigned to either an adult coloring pack (n = 26) or placebo pack (n = 27). The primary outcome measure was the within‐patient change in HADS‐A scores following 2 hours of exposure. Results A convenience sample of 117 patients were screened, and 53 patients were randomized. Characteristics of allocated groups were similar in terms of sex, diagnosis, and ethnicity. A higher proportion of intervention subjects spent ≥1 hour engaged with their activity (46.2% vs. 4.0%, p = 0.01). For the primary outcome measure, the mean within‐patient decrease in HADS‐A score at 2 hours for intervention subjects was 3.7 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.4 to 5.1, p < 0.001) versus a decrease of 0.3 (95% CI = –0.6 to 1.2, p = 0.51) in the placebo group. Conclusions Among ED patients, exposure to adult coloring books resulted in lower self‐reported levels of anxiety at 2 hours compared to placebo.

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“…Thus, art therapy research suggests that mask making supports the exploration of personal identity [18]. It should be noted, however, that art therapy research has been critiqued since much of the literature relies on poorly described interventions, with small participant populations, and using participant self-assessed emotional improvement as a prime measure of efficacy [19, 20]. Despite these criticisms of art therapy, we felt that mask making offered an innovative approach to exploring medical students’ professional identity formation experiences and warranted rigorous investigation.…”

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Unmasking identity dissonance: exploring medical students’ professional identity formation through mask making

Joseph¹,

Bader²,

Wilson³

et al. 2017

Perspect Med Educ

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PurposeProfessional identity formation is an on-going, integrative process underlying trainees’ experiences of medical education. Since each medical student’s professional identity formation process is an individual, internal, and often times emotionally charged unconscious experience, it can be difficult for educators to understand each student’s unique experience. We investigate if mask making can provide learners and educators the opportunity to explore medical students’ professional identity formation experiences.MethodsIn 2014 and 2015, 30 third year medical students created masks, with a brief accompanying written narrative, to creatively express their medical education experiences. Using a paradigmatic case selection approach, four masks were analyzed using techniques from visual rhetoric and the Listening Guide.ResultsThe research team clearly detected identity dissonance in each case. Each case provided insights into the unique personal experiences of the dissonance process for each trainee at a particular point in their medical school training.ConclusionsWe propose that mask making accompanied by a brief narrative reflection can help educators identify students experiencing identity dissonance, and explore each student’s unique experience of that dissonance. The process of making these artistic expressions may also provide a form of intervention that can enable educators to help students navigate professional identity formation and identity dissonance experiences.

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Does Art Therapy Work? Identifying the Active Ingredients of Art Therapy Efficacy

Cited by 24 publications

References 3 publications

Reflect Interview using audio-image recording: Development and feasibility study

Reflect Interview using audio-image recording: Development and feasibility study

Randomized Controlled Trial of Adult Therapeutic Coloring for the Management of Significant Anxiety in the Emergency Department

Unmasking identity dissonance: exploring medical students’ professional identity formation through mask making

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