p31: art relieves stress in kids with anxiety disorders

P31: Art Relieves Stress in Kids with Anxiety Disorders

Art is a way to provide distance from the intense affect associated with the disaster, and a way to work around and through the natural defenses that arise when trying to link affect with cognition. The ability to create art about the threatening thoughts and feelings channels the child’s energy into the art, or into a positive task, which then can be explored safely. If these thoughts ca...

Considerations in Art E-therapy for Anxiety Disorders

Brief and online versions of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)—the favored treatment for severe anxiety disorders—have answered critiques that traditional CBT is too inaccessible and unaffordable. The integration of art into CBT protocols may address further critiques that the concepts of CBT can be too abstract and verbal by adding tangible components. Therefore, art e-therapy may offer a uni...

Art Ideas for Busy Kids

W1: The Role of Art Therapy ( Music and Psychodrauma) on Improvement of Anxiety in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

ASD or Autism Spectrum Diorders are the most strange psychological disorders in which children can’t show their emotions, fears and anxiety as soon as the normal children. They suffer from the social interactions , the stereotypic behaviors and verbal skills impairments and these problems can lead to withdrawal and other behavioral problems. Among the psychological strategies, art therapy...

Neural Circuitry of Anxiety and Stress Disorders

Many data now indicate that the amygdala, along with its many efferent connections, is critically involved in emotion. Although the amygdala complex is generally defined by several distinct groups of cells, including the lateral, basal, accessory basal central, medial, and cortical nuclei, new data indicate that it is more useful to think of the amygdala as the basolateral amygdala (Bla) and to...

Early Life Stress, Mood, and Anxiety Disorders

Early life stress has been shown to exert profound short- and long-term effects on human physiology both in the central nervous system and peripherally. Early life stress has demonstrated clear association with many psychiatric disorders including major depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder. The Diagnostic and Statistics Manuel of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnostic cate...