Research on insecure child attachments has found significant correlation between early attachment history and family drawing indicators, ruling out present day circumstances and IQ in children ages 8-9 years of low socio-economic status. The research contrasts two measures of attachment taken at 12 and 18 months, with the following assessments: Child behavior checklist (teacher reports), Maternal Life Stress [...]
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Trauma focused CBT art therapy
I was recently reading Pifalo, T. (2007). Jogging the cogs: Trauma-focused art therapy and CBT with sexually abused children, Art Therapy:Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 24(4), 170-75; the author articulates the benefits of a visual approach to therapy rather well. Pifalo writes: « Because of the visual nature of traumatic memories, an image-based therapy [...]
