Creative Fun for Young Minds™
Art Therapy is a mental health profession that uses the creative process to improve and enhance physical, mental and emotional well being.
It is based on the belief that the creative process involved in artistic self-expression helps people resolve conflicts and problems, develop interpersonal skills, manage behavior, reduce stress, increase self-esteem, self-awareness, and achieve insight.
Nonverbal expression through use of the creative process is beneficial to children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders due to deficits in communication, social interaction and stereotyped behaviors.
Art Therapy directives for autistic children may serve as a path toward increased awareness of the self and encourage children with autism to begin to represent their experiences.
Unlike traditional art projects Art Therapy directives like Name Bug, emerge from a psychological discipline that specializes in using the creative process of art-making to help bring about therapeutic change