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Art Therapy incorporated in the approach of SCSG in children with behavioral problems in Institutions
MIa Janković Shentser
; Udruga Poticaj - udruga za kvalitetni razvoj djece i mladeži, Zagreb, Hrvatska – Jeruzalem, Izrael
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; Udruga Poticaj - udruga za kvalitetni razvoj djece i mladeži, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The article sums up the approach and the process of working with a group of elementary and secondary school children with behavioral disorders in an institution for children without adequate parental care.
The introduction presents art therapy, its brief historical development, key authors and key settings incorporated in the approach of Small creative socializing groups (Male kreativne socijalizacijske skupine) which was the bases of the program of work in this project.
Following the introduction, an overview and description of meetings is presented, their course with an emphasis on situations that clearly show problems of children and the way of working with them.
Meetings, led by two specially trained theachers, were held in the institution where children live (due to specific conditions and events in the process of implementing the project, it was decided not to publish the name of the Institution and the children’s names in order to protect their identity).
Users of the program were boys in the stage of latency, prepubertal and pubertal age, with strongly developed psychosocial problems of anxiety, aggression, over-tension, negative self-image and image of environment, emotional and social maladjustment which are basically caused by heavily damaged family relations, disintegrated families and distinctly poor social status.
During the implementation of the project it was confirmed that group-work with such an incongruent system isn’t possible, and if not to the disintegration of the group it leads to a split, which happened in this case. The „stronger“ and „weaker“ group of children were the two streams of the group. The levels of constructivity, cooperativity, creativity, activity and aggressiveness of younger and “weaker” are significantly different from those of older, “stronger” subgroup, with aggressiveness being significantly more ephasised in „stronger“ subgroup and other dimensions in the „weaker“ subgroup.
Meetings were held over a period of four months in a regular, once-a-week pace. Work was abruptly interrupted so that planned changes could not be realized.
Ključne riječi
Art therapy; Small creative socialization groups (SCSG); behavioral disorders; psychological functioning disorder; aggression
Hrčak ID:
176992
URI
Datum izdavanja:
6.12.2016.
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