Family art therapy within a deaf system. Special Issue: The creative arts therapies and the family

Journal/Book: Arts in Psychotherapy. 1991; 18: 251-261.

Abstract: Investigates 3 areas of concern relevant to understanding family dynamics within the deaf population: language systems, the mourning process, and the role of an interpreter. The family art therapy process is highlighted through the case of an individual who was in long-term individual art therapy for 3 yrs and who had been diagnosed as deaf at age 3 and a half yrs. Family art therapy sessions, interspersed throughout his treatment, helped him to communicate with his family and expedited discharge from his residential placement.

Note: processes in family art therapy; deaf 10 yr old male & his family

Keyword(s): Family therapy; art therapy; deaf ; therapeutic processes; family members; school age children; childhood ; adolescence ; adulthood

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