Art Therapy And Autism Summary

Breanna Van Den Heuvel, 2-28-17, Art therapy In the, “Outcome-Based Evaluation of a Social Skills Program Using Art Therapy and Group Therapy for Children on the Autism Spectrum,” by Kathleen Marie Epp focuses on the effects of Group and art therapy on a group of children that fall within the autism spectrum. She is studying the effectiveness of art on how it will indirectly help the children with their lack of social compatibility. The children that she study have issues with interaction and daily social situations thus leading to increasing trouble. In the therapy provided the children are to learn. In the therapy they are training the part of the Childs brain that is for communicating and drying to “teach,” common issues and scenarios
In chapters 15 and 16 she covered certain aspects of the case study. In both reading they explain the Autism spectrum however the book is more through. Both covered that idea completely. Epp writes,” [the autism spectrum is] a phase that presently includes several specific diagnoses, each with its own particular character and symptoms (Epp, 2008, p. 27).” Both go in depth to more concentrated ideas concerning that however both seem to lack in much about therapy. In one it tells about many therapy types such as cognitive therapy, which focus on thoughts and internal feelings., however it does not go in to group art and how that helps the adolescences meaning it misses the main theory. King writes much about what therapy and what it can be helping. Some therapies are more appropriate than the others depending on the situation. The book covers the relationship of the people including the client or patient and in this case of children with autism. The text book goes in depth to types of therapy however it does not go in depth in to art therapy and does not have therapy paired with autism making it inadequately in this case. The article does a better job explaining the results of therapies and how they are effective however it does not go in depth enough in to the science behind it also making it less useful when viewing the
She was thorough and the setup of her data was very clean. She included all aspects including how she set up the study and carried it out. She also included a section about how therapy and another for group therapy art and how they improved the social skill of the children. She also had a chart showing the before and after and numbers showing the change which was interesting. It was lacking what exactly happens scientifically in the children’s body that makes them like this and how the therapy is counters acting it. It would be a more successful article if the she wen more in depth of how this was helping it would have been better. Reading this article helped me the most when reading the chart. It was a thing that dipped my toes in the water about that. The chart was most intriguing however I feel that the rest of the article, though nicely written, was not something I would suggest. This is because the subject I was searching for was not viewed in depth. I wanted to know more about the internal science and how it helped. This showed the results and that therapy was beneficial in this case. I would have been more interested in an article that explained more why art and group therapy were more beneficial in depth. I guess a more technical article would have been more what I was seeking. I would recommend this to students if they had wanted to look at the results of therapies on children in the