Art Therapy in an Acute Care Short Term Pschiatric Facility
Graduation Date
Spring 1983
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Document Form
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy
Degree Granting Institution
Notre Dame de Namur University
Program Name
Art Therapy
Abstract
In this paper I am attempting to describe how art therapy can be an important part air the recovery process for patients hospitalized in an acute care psychiatric facility, where the treatment philosophy is-based on the concept of milieu therapy. In order to illustrate the use of art therapy in such a setting, I include some case histories of patients I have worked with at the Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, during the second half of my internship as an art therapy graduate student at the College of Notre Dame.
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