Photography and art therapy: An easy partnership

Kopytin, Alexander

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“…Proses kreatif dalam fotografi dapat membantu seseorang mengendalikan impuls diri, meningkatkan keterampilan sosial, dan meningkatkan self-esteem (Cosden & Reynolds, 1982). Fotografi dijadikan media untuk bercerita, membentuk makna (meaning) (Kopytin, 2004), dan media eksplorasi aspek emosi manusia (Stegenga & Burks, 2013).…”

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Studi Eksperimen Aktivitas Fotografi untuk Menurunkan Tingkat Kecemasan dan Stres

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Wahyuni²,

Labulu³

et al. 2019

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Penggunaan fitur kamera pada smartphone dapat membawa dampak positif namun belum banyak dikaji secara empirik. Penelitian ini menguji efek therapeutic fotografi dalam menurunkan gejala kecemasan dan stres dengan menggunakan desain eksperimen. Dua puluh partisipan tergabung ke dalam dua studi yang dipisahkan atas kelompok kontrol dan kelompok yang menerima dua belas sesi terapi fotografi. Tingkat kecemasan dan stres diukur dengan menggunakan alat ukur DASS-42. Hasil analisis Wilcoxon signed rank test dan binary logistic regression menunjukkan sesi terapi fotografi terasosiasi dengan penurunan tingkat kecemasan dan stres pada kedua kelompok studi. Kajian terhadap rendahnya kendali variabel selama eksperimen menjadi faktor yang penting diperhatikan dalam penarikan simpulan efektivitas therapeutic fotografi.

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Studi Eksperimen Aktivitas Fotografi untuk Menurunkan Tingkat Kecemasan dan Stres

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Labulu³

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“…Those activities involved the therapist as photographer. Both Weiser (2001) and Kopytin (2004) are describing the potential of using photography within the actual practice of therapy. In this paper I consider what digital photography offers Art Therapists in relation to the recording of client's work.…”

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“…(Weiser, 2001Á2006) In 'Phototherapy', therefore, the photograph and photography are the medium of choice. Alexander Kopytin writes about the creative possibilities of using photographs and photography specifically within art therapy (Kopytin, 2004). His descriptions of themed projects, group and narrative work are a reminder not only of the ubiquitous presence of photographs, but of their potential emotional resonance.…”

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Using digital photography to record clients’ art work

Atkins¹

2007

International Journal of Art Therapy

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This article considers the use of digital technology to record work made by clients. It is argued that digital photography has practical benefits over traditional photographic methods and offers new clinical opportunities. It is also suggested that these benefits need not distract us from established art therapy practice or 'traditional' image making. The way of working with digital photography described in this paper seeks to locate it in the context of current legislation and professional thinking using examples and illustrations drawn from the authors practice with children and adolescents with mental health problems in the National Health Service (NHS).

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“…Photos have been proven to promote discursive production, facilitating the access to a symbolic languagesimilar to that of the unconsciousand the communication of emotions that could not be expressed in any other form (Clark and Loewenthal, 2013;Loewenthal, 2013a;Loewenthal et al, 2017;Saita et al, 2014). Looking at pictures not only provides clients with a "physical" and "solid" base to start their narration, thus reducing anxiety and favouring "grounding" (Kopytin, 2004), it also gives them a new starting point from which to reconstruct their life stories and integrate their past, present and future (Halkola, 2013). Providing clients with visual stimuli aids externalisation, thus helping them to view themselves from different perspectives and to reason on those elements that may hinder change or perpetuate the assumption of old roles (Brinkman, 2017;Kopytin, 2004).…”

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“…Looking at pictures not only provides clients with a "physical" and "solid" base to start their narration, thus reducing anxiety and favouring "grounding" (Kopytin, 2004), it also gives them a new starting point from which to reconstruct their life stories and integrate their past, present and future (Halkola, 2013). Providing clients with visual stimuli aids externalisation, thus helping them to view themselves from different perspectives and to reason on those elements that may hinder change or perpetuate the assumption of old roles (Brinkman, 2017;Kopytin, 2004).…”

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Constructing positive narrative identities in a forensic setting: a single case evaluation of phototherapy

Saita

Accordini

Loewenthal

2019

Intl Jnl of Prisoner Health

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the use of a phototherapeutic technique called "Talking Pictures" within the forensic setting. This approach involves the use of a set of photographs to facilitate clients' disclosure, self-growth and promote the development of positive self-narratives. The use of art therapies and the construction of adaptive identity narratives have been proven to support desistance and increase resocialization in the prison population. Design/methodology/approach -A 42-year-old Italian male offender was met for six therapy sessions and invited to talk about his past, present and future through the use of photographs. Session transcripts were analysed using the software for linguistic analysis T-LAB. Findings -Results show a progression in the language used during the sessions: in the beginning the client uses a denotative language with many concrete nouns and no emotional words, in subsequent sessions his speech begins to assume more symbolic connotations and emotional words are used to describe past traumas as well as to find new meanings to present events. Moreover, the fixity of the client's self-image is contrasted with the emergence of new sides to his personality encompassing agency and self-worth.Research limitations/implications -The study is based on a single case, therefore results cannot be generalised to the prison population; moreover, the absence of any follow-up and standardized measurements of the client's progression should be addressed by future research by both involving larger samples and including follow-up and quantitative measures of the study results. Practical implications -The paper provides details on an innovative technique that might be used to explore the offenders' goods and values and to develop truly redemptive rehabilitation programmes. Originality/value -This paper adds to the scant literature on phototherapy in prisons and connects it with a reflection on desistance indicating that phototherapeutic interventions might be used to promote positive self-narratives, thus increasing desistance.

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Photography and art therapy: An easy partnership

Cited by 11 publications

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Studi Eksperimen Aktivitas Fotografi untuk Menurunkan Tingkat Kecemasan dan Stres

Studi Eksperimen Aktivitas Fotografi untuk Menurunkan Tingkat Kecemasan dan Stres

Using digital photography to record clients’ art work

Constructing positive narrative identities in a forensic setting: a single case evaluation of phototherapy

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