جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "visual arts" در نشریات گروه "روانشناسی"

Art therapy as a psychotherapy method can be helpful in diagnosis and treatment of many disorders. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of art therapy (visual arts) on the negative symptoms of a number of patients with schizophrenia in the psychiatric center (Ahebba). The method of this study is descriptive as kind of semi experimental with a pre-test/ post-test. Statistical population consisted of all schizophrenic patients in the psychiatric center (Ahebba), among them fourteen patients have been selected through available statistical sampling. The group participated in art therapy sessions for 10 serial 90-minute sessions in four (4) consecutive weeks. To assess the effectiveness of art therapy, the PPAT’s illustrative test and FEATS’s scale of formal element in art therapy have been used. The results from this research shows that art therapy is effective in reducing the negative symptoms (such as anxiety, inattention, depression, low self-steam) in patients with schizophrenia.

This research was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of visual arts training using «ArtsEducation، Advocator of Innovator Child». The researcher made an educational package for creativity in elementary school children. 80 students (40 girls and 40 boys) were selected among the fourth grade students in the cityof Tehran، district3، through multistage cluster sampling and they were randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups. The instruments of the research included TorranceTestof Creative Thinkingimageand the researcher made educational package. The experimental groupreceived 15 one-hour sessions of educational interventionand the follow up was done after 6 weeks. The obtained data were analyzed throughcovariance analysis. The findings showed that educational intervention hadasignificant influence on the total creativity score (p=0. 00،p=0. 005) as well as on two components of creativity، originality (p=0. 005، p=0. 008) andelaboration (p=0. 00،p=0. 001). There were no significant differences in fluency scores and flexibility scores between experimental and control groups. It can be concluded that the «Arts Education، Advocator of Innovator Child» educational package، can be used as an appropriate educational tool for developing creativity in elementary school children.

The present study investigated the effect of visual arts on teaching coping strategies to abused children with physical and psychological signs of disorders. The sample included 7 annoyed children dwelling in a 24-hour Behzisti center; the participants were selected through convenient sampling. In this semi-experimental research, Children’s Coping Strategies Checklist (CCSC) and Disease Diagnostics Questionnaire (CSI-4) were used for data collection. Since the main objective of this research is investigating the effect of visual arts on coping strategies to abused children, independent and paired sample t-test were used for data analysis. The results show that using visual arts has a significant effect on the teaching of coping strategies to abused children.