By Anne-Marie Dubois, Corinne Montchanin
Art therapy is increasingly present in the therapeutic panel available in healthcare institutions. It remains nonetheless represented in a marginal and poorly supported way in the field of child psychiatry. This book deals with the use of graphic and pictorial mediation with the child when it is implemented on medical indication and with a psychotherapeutic aim. The application of the principles of art therapy in the context of child psychotherapy requires taking into account the specificities of an evolving development. The work therefore begins, in the first part, by evoking the stages of maturation of the child and his drawing. If the graphic activity is fully part of this developmental movement, its deployment does not is not the only data to consider. The art-therapy device must take into account the environment and the specific needs of the child. Specific adaptations are indeed necessary so that the act of drawing, which is part of the child’s ordinary life, can give rise correlatively to a process of creation and a therapeutic process. “Art-therapy and childhood” thus approaches, in a second part, the framework and the device to be set up in these psychotherapies with artistic mediation. This particular alliance, between an artistic practice and a psychotherapeutic objective, is finally illustrated in the third part of the book through the account of three examples of care pathways. The art-therapy device must take into account the environment and the specific needs of the child. Specific adaptations are indeed necessary so that the act of drawing, which is part of the child’s ordinary life, can give rise correlatively to a process of creation and a therapeutic process. “Art-therapy and childhood” thus approaches, in a second part, the framework and the device to be set up in these psychotherapies with artistic mediation. This particular alliance, between an artistic practice and a psychotherapeutic objective, is finally illustrated in the third part of the book through the account of three examples of care pathways. The art-therapy device must take into account the environment and the specific needs of the child. Specific adaptations are indeed necessary so that the act of drawing, which is part of the child’s ordinary life, can give rise correlatively to a process of creation and a therapeutic process. “Art-therapy and childhood” thus approaches, in a second part, the framework and the device to be set up in these psychotherapies with artistic mediation. This particular alliance, between an artistic practice and a psychotherapeutic objective, is finally illustrated in the third part of the book through the account of three examples of care pathways. Specific adaptations are indeed necessary so that the act of drawing, which is part of the child’s ordinary life, can give rise correlatively to a process of creation and a therapeutic process. “Art-therapy and childhood” thus approaches, in a second part, the framework and the device to be set up in these psychotherapies with artistic mediation. This particular alliance, between an artistic practice and a psychotherapeutic objective, is finally illustrated in the third part of the book through the account of three examples of care pathways. Specific adaptations are indeed necessary so that the act of drawing, which is part of the child’s ordinary life, can give rise correlatively to a process of creation and a therapeutic process. “Art-therapy and childhood” thus approaches, in a second part, the framework and the device to set up in these psychotherapies with artistic mediation. This particular alliance, between an artistic practice and a psychotherapeutic objective, is finally illustrated in the third part of the book through the account of three examples of care pathways. in a second part, the framework and the device to be set up in these psychotherapies with artistic mediation. This particular alliance, between an artistic practice and a psychotherapeutic objective, is finally illustrated in the third part of the book through the account of three examples of care pathways. in a second part, the framework and the device to be set up in these psychotherapies with artistic mediation. This particular alliance, between an artistic practice and a psychotherapeutic objective, is finally illustrated in the third part of the book through the account of three examples of care pathways.
