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Mechanisms of Art for Social Art Therapy

Ephrat Huss ; Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva

Sažetak

In our current turbulent social climate, with climate change, wars, political
upheaval, and migration, social problems become central issues for many
of clients. This theoretical paper offers a method of understanding art in art
therapy through social theories providing four inherent mechanisms of art
that are connected to social theories. These mechanisms include: using art to
explore phenomenological experience of social context; using art to integrate
subjective experience within social background; using art as mapping our
social reality; using art as mediating communication within a system. Each
of these mechanisms is illustrated with examples from the author’s previous
publications. Appropriate social settings are also outlined. This paper will
contribute to art therapists’ ability to use art through social lense within their
art therapy practice in long-term crises. It presents how to use art mechanisms
to help a family, group, or community, and manage the constant shifts, from
homeostasis to change, that crisis demands.

Ključne riječi

Social art therapy; Mechanisms of art; Social mechanisms of art

Hrčak ID:

327412

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/327412

Datum izdavanja:

30.12.2024.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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