Effects of a Preschool Arts Curriculum on Social and Emotional Competence

Abstract

This study investigated the extent to which low-income preschool children's social, emotional, and behavioral competence improved after engaging in a six-week-long arts program. Participants included 46 students of three, four, and five years of age in two low-income, state-funded classrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area. Analyses of children's scores on SCBE-80 measures of Social Competence and Egotistic-Prosocial

Applying the Artistic Psychological Painting Course to Improve the Mental Health of Middle School Students

“…On the whole, some scholars have devoted themselves to researching the forms and methods of art therapy itself, and accordingly, exploring the relationship between art education and art therapy, and proposing ways to integrate art therapy into art education in primary and secondary schools, applying case and survey studies to point out the positive effects of art therapy on art education, and the positive effects of art therapy-oriented art education on the physical and mental health of schoolchildren ( Anderson, Eisner, & McRoriel, 1998;Bergmann, 1995;Barron,2019;Dong, 2018;Fransila, 1981;Heise, 2014;Huang, 2018;Hao, 2004;Henderson, 2018). Harlow,2019;Kim, 2020;Kang, 2017;Liu, 2007Liu, , 2011Leng, 2018;Moon, 2003;Mai&Hao, 2003;McNiff, 1998;Niu, 2016;Pu, 2018;Robertson, 2000;Sun, 2019;Shi, 2015aShi, , 2015b2015c;Waller, 1984;Weelden & Whipple, 2007;Walters, 2007;Wang, R., 2011;Weng&Liu, 2012;Wang, 2014;Xiao, 2009;Yao, 2014;Xiao&Chang, 2017;Xue,2018;Zhao, 2014;Zhou,2005;.…”