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Focusing on Solutions Through Art: A Case Study
Author(s) -
Mooney Kathleen
Publication year - 2000
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.1467-8438.2000.tb00409.x
Subject(s) - feeling , conversation , expression (computer science) , project commissioning , psychology , publishing , art therapy , visual arts , sociology , aesthetics , art , computer science , psychotherapist , social psychology , communication , literature , programming language
The author integrates solution‐focused therapy with art therapy in a way that is most suitable for young children between the ages of six and thirteen and has proven especially helpful in the school environment. The methods developed are exemplified in a case study of a boy at the ages of nine and eleven. The art functions as a medium for conversation, an avenue for the expression of strong feeling, concretises reframes, makes metaphors visual, enhances exceptions, externalises the problem and makes solutions real.