Evaluating the Impact of Creative Journal Arts Therapy for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

Vela, Javier Cavazos; Ikonomopoulos, James; Dell’Aquila, Julia; Vela, Patsy

doi:10.1177/2150137816664781

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“…[13] demonstrated the effectiveness of art therapy through a creative journal arts therapy treatment program for female survivors of close partners. This suggested that art therapy is effective for promoting the hopes of people.…”

Section: Relaxation Id8mentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological utility of art therapy for patients with advanced cancer

Ando¹,

Hayashida²

2017

Clin Case Rep Rev

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Patients with advanced cancer experience various kind of suffering such as physical pain, psychological suffering, or existential suffering. Art therapy is one of the most effective psychological cares. The aim of this study was to investigate the psychological utility of art therapy for patients with advanced cancer. Eight patients with advanced cancer received art therapy with an art therapist from two to four times in a general hospital. They made art including drawing pictures or making collages to express their feelings and thoughts. Each patient explained his art after each session and discussed changes that they had undergone between sessions. The therapist wrote down patients' words including explanation toward arts, their emotions, and thoughts, then categorized to evaluate the utility of the art therapy, and the following categories emerged: "Promotion of communication with other patients," "Promotion of communication with family members," "Hope for the future," "Making psychological space to forget illness," "Missing the good old times," and "Relaxation." These results suggest that art therapy has psychological utility for patients with advanced cancer such as promoting communication, finding hopes for the future, and adapting to life in the hospital.

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Section: Relaxation Id8mentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological utility of art therapy for patients with advanced cancer

Ando¹,

Hayashida²

2017

Clin Case Rep Rev

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“…Like other culturally diverse populations (e.g., Turkish students; Haktanir, Lenz, Can, & Watson, ), Latina/o students also might have different conceptualizations of variables of interest such as hope and meaning in life. Because researchers and practitioners (Ortega, ; Vela et al, ) are using the MLQ or DHS to measure treatment outcomes or predictors of positive development with Latina/o populations, accurate information regarding indicators of positive development advances a humanistic counseling approach by providing researchers and practitioners with validity information regarding these instruments. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate psychometric properties of the MLQ and DHS among a sample of Latina/o students.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…The MLQ is a brief 10‐item, two‐subscale measure designed to evaluate perceptions of presence of meaning in life and search for meaning in life. A review of published studies (Vela, Ikonomopoulos, Dell A'Quila, & Vela, ; Vela, Lu, Lenz, & Hinojosa, ) revealed a trend among researchers to apply MLQ scores with subscales in prediction models for clinically relevant outcomes or as outcome variables in counseling interventions.…”

Section: Meaning In Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The DHS is a brief eight‐item, two‐factor measure designed to evaluate perceptions of hope. A review of published studies (Vela et al, , ) revealed that no definite trend of hope scores in unidimensional or subscale scores has been established. Snyder and colleagues () used principal component analysis with an oblique rotation to examine and identify a two‐factor structure of the DHS.…”

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Evaluation of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire and Dispositional Hope Scale With Latina/o Students

Vela

Ikonomopoulos

Lenz

et al. 2017

J Humanistic Counseling

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In this study, the authors investigated the psychometric properties of measures of meaning in life and hope among Latina/o students. Participants completed the Meaning in LifeQuestionnaire (Steger, Frazier, Oishi, & Kaler, 2006) and Dispositional Hope Scale (Snyder et al., 1991). A confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate structural validity. For the Meaning in Life Scale, internal consistency was good and acceptable as measured by coefficient alpha and a modest 2-subscale structure was confirmed. For the Dispositional Hope Scale, internal consistency was good and acceptable as measured by coefficient alpha and a modest 2-factor structure was confirmed. The authors discuss the importance of these findings as well as implications for counselors and researchers.

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“…Lyubomirsky and Lepper () described subjective happiness as a global, subjective assessment of happiness. Researchers have found that subjective happiness has been positively related with academic motivation (Gabriele, ), meaning in life (Vela, Ikonomopoulos, Dell’ Aquila, & Vela, ), job satisfaction (Bowling et al, ), and self‐esteem (Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, & Schkade, ). Although measures to examine life satisfaction and subjective happiness are popular, they were developed and tested with predominantly White English‐speaking students, thereby bringing reliability and validity into question with culturally and linguistically diverse groups.…”

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confidence: 99%