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Family Assessment and Intervention Using an Interactive Art Exercise
Author(s) -
Kozlowska Kasia,
Hanney Lesley
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1999.tb00358.x
Subject(s) - psychology , intervention (counseling) , referral , task (project management) , population , applied psychology , project commissioning , family therapy , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medical education , psychotherapist , publishing , medicine , psychiatry , family medicine , engineering , environmental health , systems engineering , political science , law
The authors have developed a family‐centered interactive art exercise from a synthesis of clinical tools used by attachment theory and family art therapists. The exercise aims to facilitate assessment and treatment of families with younger children (two to eight years) at a tertiary referral child and family psychiatric facility, by observing how a family collectively as well as individually sets about planning and completing an art task. Art exercises allow for both verbal and non‐verbal communication. The exercises are deliberately kept simple in order to span a range of developmental abilities, and allow the therapist/s to observe from behind a one‐way screen, so as to be less intrusive in the family dynamics. Although developed for assessment with a specific population, the exercise is likely to be useful in other clinical situations and has been used as a treatment tool by the authors.