Cathy Malchiodi which I’ve spoken about a number of times here, writes a review of the benefits of drawing on symptoms of trauma. She lists the following partial benefits: 1) Drawing taps implicit memory. Trauma and drawing are largely sensory experiences; drawing pictures about aspects of « what happened » prompts sensory memories of traumatic events. 2) Drawing actively [...]
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Transferable benefits from the arts
There are a number of educational studies that now show that involvement in making art has tremendous benefits, many of which can transfer to other areas of life. Catterall et all. (2002) summarized the findings of 62 research studies. They identified 84 distinguishable, valid effects of the arts among groups of children. Academic benefits were [...]
