"When I go back to painting, I am 'Alice in Wonderland": older women coping with age-related crises through visual artmaking.

Background: The creative process of visual artmaking provides an opportunity for older women to express themselves and explore their emotions, thoughts, and experiences. This study examined the roles of visual artmaking in older women's lives in general and in relation to the ongoing challenges of aging.

Methods: The sample was composed of 21 Israeli women aged 60-90, who indicated that they produced visual artworks on an ongoing basis.

Art Therapy Open Studio and Teen Identity Development: Helping Adolescents Recover from Mental Health Conditions.

Adolescent identity development is driven to a significant degree by peer interaction. However, when mental health conditions (MHC) or other crises separate teens from their peers, their identity development can be slowed or arrested. We developed a unique open studio intervention (OS-ID) that could facilitate identity development in teens recovering from MHC, and incorporated this intervention into a therapeutic day school catering to our target population.

Art in the time of corona: A thematic analysis.

This study looks at 102 images made by women in the month of April 2020 at the time of COVID-19 and during the first lockdown in Israel. Submissions were anonymous and participants were asked to write a few words of description alongside their images. The data collected was analyzed by thematic analysis approach.

Making Art Therapy Virtual: Integrating Virtual Reality Into Art Therapy With Adolescents.

In recent years, the field of art therapy has sought to adapt traditional treatment approaches to today's innovative technological environments when working with adolescent "digital natives." In their clinic, art therapists often struggle with lack of cooperation when treating adolescents during sessions. This article presents two case studies that explore how Virtual Reality (VR) technology can be combined with traditional art therapy to treat adolescents suffering from anxiety and social difficulties.

The Efficiency of Art-Based Interventions in Parental Training.

In recent years, the field of art therapy has gained momentum, but art therapists still tend to work verbally during sessions with parents. The therapeutic approach presented here is anchored in the notion that the encounter between the art world and treatment creates a unique relationship between therapist, parents and the artwork. Eighty-seven parents of five to eight year olds filled in two quantitative questionnaires before and after a ten-month therapeutic intervention during which their child was treated through art therapy.