The group takes care of itself: Art therapy to prevent burnout

Art therapy-based groups for work-related stress with staff in health and social care: An exploratory study

“…Huet (2015) ART THERAPY-BASED GROUPS FOR WORK-RELATED STRESS -Val Huet and Sue Holttum 2016 2 identified and reviewed eleven art therapy publications on work-stress. Publications addressed general health care (Klein, 1973;Julliard, Intilli, Ryan, Vollmann and Seshadri, 2002;Visnola, Sprudza, Bake and Pike, 2010), mental health care (Huet, 2011;Huet 2012;Riley, 1997) and oncology and palliative care (Belfiore, 1994;Murrant, Rykov, Amonite & Loynd, 2000;Nainis, 2005;Salzano, Lindemann & Tronsky;Van Westrhenen & Fritz, 2012). Studies describe diverse approaches providing individual art-making within a group (Klein, 1973;Belfiore, 1994), group and individual art exercises (Huet, 2011;Huet 2012;Nainis, 2005;Riley, 1997;Visnola et al, 2010), individual art-making sessions (Julliard et al, 2002) as well as dyadic and group art-making tasks (Salzano et al 2013).…”

Literature review of art therapy-based interventions for work-related stress

“…Within the 11 art therapy studies reviewed here, a number of limitations were evident: four studies relied on therapist-reported outcome, and did not use pre-test or post-test or other empirical measures (Belfiore, 1994;Huet, 2011;Klein, 1973;Riley, 1997). Important information was omitted, such as the number and voluntary status of participants (Klein, 1973), the duration and frequency of the intervention (Klein, 1973;Riley, 1997) and an actual description of the intervention (Van Westrhenen & Fritza, 2012).…”

“…Art therapy interventions within palliative and oncology care Belfiore (1994) conducted an art therapy group intervention to help prevent burnout in a team of doctors and nurses providing home care for terminally ill patients. Five nurses and three doctors attended 20 sessions of a weekly threehour art therapy group, participating in a mixture of non-directive exercises and theme-based projects in order to explore the emotional impact of working closely with dying patients and their families.…”

The Development of a Physician Vitality Program: A Brief Report

“…A benefit exhibit at a local art gallery was organized to purchase rocking chairs in the pediatric emergency department. We anticipate that these creative endeavors, which have garnered considerable enthusiasm, will help to offset burnout and enhance physician resilience (Belfiore, ).…”