Gluing the pieces together: Female adolescents’ construction of meaning through digital metaphoric imagery in trauma therapy

Krüger, Deirdré; Swanepoel, Marna

doi:10.1016/j.aip.2017.04.011

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“…The respectful approach created a safe space (van Westrhenen, Fritz, Oosthuizen, Lemont, Vermeer& Kleber, 2017) for the participants to open up and share their experiences. The combination of creating through artistic means and having a safe space to share their experience (Gantt & Tinnin, 2009) helped participants to self-soothe (Naff, 2014) and supported their post-traumatic growth, including through developing new meanings and hopes about their life (Kruger & Swanepoel, 2017).…”

Section: Narrative and Creative Approach In Group Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the effectiveness of the Tree of Life in promoting the therapeutic growth or refugee women living with HIV

Vitale

Khawaja

Ryde³

2019

The Arts in Psychotherapy

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The current study aimed to understand the experiences of refugee women living with HIV as they participated in the Tree of Life (ToL), a group-based narrative intervention. A qualitative case study methodology was used. Five African refugee women took part in the study. The ToL consisted of seven two-hourly sessions conducted on weekly basis. Further, participants completed a feedback form after each session, and they were individually interviewed on completion of the ToL. The researchers kept detailed field notes. The data indicated that participants were motivated to attend the intervention in order to overcome their psychological distress, isolation and negative thoughts associated with their situation. Participants found the intervention beneficial. In a safe and supportive setting, and through the art making process, they were able to reflect on their painful past and current issues associated with their migratory stressors and with living with HIV. They identified personal strengths and qualities that enabled them to cope and build their resilience. The art making process and the discussion of the tree empowered them to re-author their life narratives. Finally, they related to each other and they developed a sense of connectedness. The findings indicate the Tree of Life as a promising intervention that can be used with refugees living with HIV. Implications and future directions are discussed.

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Section: Narrative and Creative Approach In Group Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the effectiveness of the Tree of Life in promoting the therapeutic growth or refugee women living with HIV

Vitale

Khawaja

Ryde³

2019

The Arts in Psychotherapy

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“…Photography helped youth develop a sense of belonging to the host country by allowing the creation of connections between past experience in the country of origin and present experience of resettlement. In this regard, artistic production fosters the creation of bridges between different conflicting aspects of identity (Huss, 2009;Kruger & Swanepoel, 2017). In a larger study from which this paper is derived, researchers found that drawings showed how newcomer children reinvent their identities to suit the context in which they evolve (Beauregard et al, 2017a).…”

Section: Art As a Support To Find Meaningmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…This transformative process also suits the exploration of cultural bereavement owing to its nonlinear aspect. Art could thereby help immigrant youth engage in this oscillating path, since it allows the expression of ambivalence and change (Huss, 2009;Kruger & Swanepoel, 2017;Lister et al, 2008).…”

Section: Art As a Support To Find Meaningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Being in Between: Exploring Cultural Bereavement and Identity Expression through Drawing

Beauregard

2019

Journal of Creativity in Mental Health

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When leaving their country of origin, immigrant children experience various losses that can lead to a grief reaction called cultural bereavement. Being an ambiguous loss, cultural bereavement can complicate children's identity construction by creating a gap between home and host country identities that may affect children's sense of belonging and identity. Yet, drawing can support immigrant children in the meaningmaking process necessary to work through the experience of cultural bereavement, as it is a non-threatening way to safely express emotionally charged material. This article presents the case study of an 11-year-old immigrant Egyptian girl who used drawing in the context of classroom-based creative expression workshops to express her cultural bereavement process and create a new meaningful identity.

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“…The therapies' important advantage is that they relate indirectly to a person's painful memories and allow the severity of post-traumatic symptoms to be reduced without the necessity of having that person face the memories themselves (Ely et al, 2017;Gantt & Tinnin, 2009;Lobban, 2014;Schouten, de Niet, Knipscheer, Klaber, & Hutschemaekers, 2015;Talwar, 2007;Tripp, 2007). The process of planning and creating a work of art, finding a title for it and discussing that work of art with a therapist or with other group members supports the symbolization of one's personal experience, including in non-verbal modalities (Kruger & Swanepoel, 2017;Lusebrink & Hinz, 2016;Malchiodi, 2012;Skeffington & Browne, 2014).…”

Section: Specific Therapeutic Needs Of Trauma Survivorsmentioning

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Restoring the body: changes in body self in the course of a focusing and arts-based therapy program for female interpersonal trauma survivors

Zielona–Jenek¹,

Sakson-Obada²,

Czapczyńska³

2019

Current Issues in Personality Psychology

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The goal of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a therapeutic program for female survivors of interpersonal trauma, among others, of domestic violence. The participating women took part in four two-day modules in a group setting during which they were offered focusing training and arts-based Gestalt therapy. The effectiveness of the interventions was evaluated in terms of improvements in body image and body experience, according to the model of body self as developed by Sakson-Obada. participants and procedure The Body-Self Questionnaire, the Affective Body Image test and the Draw-a-Woman test were administered to 21 participants before and after the program. results After the therapy, the participants reported a reduction of disturbances in their body experience (interpretation and regulation of emotions and bodily needs and in body identity). In the body image domain, increased body satisfaction was observed using both declarative and projective tools-the women were also more likely to draw uncovered parts of the female body. Although improvements were noted in most of the women, three of them reported an increase in difficulties, mainly in the body image domain. conclusions The study demonstrated that: (1) a combination of the two techniques, i.e., focusing training and art included in the Gestalt group therapy program, resulted in satisfactory changes in body image and body experience; (2) the therapy's effects should be monitored in the context of a woman's various life situations; and (3) the use of both declarative and non-declarative methods can be recommended to assess the effectiveness of body-centered therapy.

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Gluing the pieces together: Female adolescents’ construction of meaning through digital metaphoric imagery in trauma therapy

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Exploring the effectiveness of the Tree of Life in promoting the therapeutic growth or refugee women living with HIV

Exploring the effectiveness of the Tree of Life in promoting the therapeutic growth or refugee women living with HIV

Being in Between: Exploring Cultural Bereavement and Identity Expression through Drawing

Restoring the body: changes in body self in the course of a focusing and arts-based therapy program for female interpersonal trauma survivors

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