Bereaved Adults' Art Therapy Group

<p>Grief and loss are inevitable experiences in life. Often, bereavement support can be helpful following the death of a loved one to help facilitate the grieving process. This paper first examines the prevalence of grief and the emotional experience of bereavement. The need for grief support and current treatment options are briefly reviewed. A discussion on the history and development of grief theory follows, including a brief review of specific psychotherapy theoretical views of bereavement. Finally, specific treatment modalities, group therapy and art therapy, are discussed - why and how the two are applied - before a specific treatment modality, group art therapy, is applied to bereavement and the possible benefits are discussed.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art Therapy

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• Hans, Andrea

Contributors dc:contributor

• Richard Carolan, EdD, ATR-BC
• Gwen Sanders, MFT, ART-BC

• Art Therapy
• Grief
• Grieving Adults
• Counseling Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.dominican.edu/art-therapy-print-theses/247

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.dominican.edu:art-therapy-print-theses-1246