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Art as a Therapy for the Grieving Process
by Sandra Graves-Alcorn
Art as a Therapy for the Grieving Process focuses on highlighting professional therapists, grieving clients, and the work of professional artists whose work are rich examples of how art therapy can be utilized throughout the grieving process. In this video, several therapists including: Dr. Sandra Graves-Alcorn, Dr. Judy Rubin, and Dr. Robert Coles, hone in on how children experience grief and speak about their work in sessions with children who have lost a loved one.
In this video, several therapists including: Dr. Sandra Graves-Alcorn, Dr. Judy Rubin, and Dr. Robert Coles, discuss how children experience grief and speak about their work in sessions with children who have lost a loved one. We see Dr. Graves-Alcorn in a session with a boy whose mother was killed in a motorcycle accident. Dr. Coles conducts a drawing session with a boy whose uncle was killed. Throughout numerous vignettes we hear from patients who art therapy has helped them with their grief. Specifically, a woman talks about how art therapy helped her to mourn her daughter, a little girl writes a letter to her departed daddy, an art therapy group of children who have lost parents to cancer, and individual art therapy with a deaf child whose mother has died.
The collection of vignettes on art and grieving highlights professional therapists, grieving clients, and the work of professional artists - like one woman in a NJ town impacted by 9/11 who draws portraits of loved ones from photographs given to her by survivors - whose work are rich examples of how art therapy can be utilized throughout the grieving process.
In this video, several therapists including: Dr. Sandra Graves-Alcorn, Dr. Judy Rubin, and Dr. Robert Coles, discuss how children experience grief and speak about their work in sessions with children who have lost a loved one. We see Dr. Graves-Alcorn in a session with a boy whose mother was killed in a motorcycle accident. Dr. Coles conducts a drawing session with a boy whose uncle was killed.
Throughout numerous vignettes we hear from patients who art therapy has helped them with their grief. Specifically, a woman talks about how art therapy helped her to mourn her daughter, a little girl writes a letter to her departed daddy, an art therapy group of children who have lost parents to cancer, and individual art therapy with a deaf child whose mother has died.
The collection of vignettes on art and grieving highlights professional therapists, grieving clients, and the work of professional artists - like one woman in a NJ town impacted by 9/11 who draws portraits of loved ones from photographs given to her by survivors - whose work are rich examples of how art therapy can be utilized throughout the grieving process.
Throughout numerous vignettes we hear from patients who art therapy has helped them with their grief. Specifically, a woman talks about how art therapy helped her to mourn her daughter, a little girl writes a letter to her departed daddy, an art therapy group of children who have lost parents to cancer, and individual art therapy with a deaf child whose mother has died.
The collection of vignettes on art and grieving highlights professional therapists, grieving clients, and the work of professional artists - like one woman in a NJ town impacted by 9/11 who draws portraits of loved ones from photographs given to her by survivors - whose work are rich examples of how art therapy can be utilized throughout the grieving process.
Length of video: 01:04:21
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-773-7
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-773-5
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