Printmaking As An Art Therapy Process With Adolescent Females In A Residential Setting PDF Download

The development of this method investigated how printmaking processes can be implemented into art therapy practices in an educational system for youth to address social and emotional communication. This was investigated through the blending of child-based group therapy approaches, school-based art therapy models, hybrid contemporary printmaking practices, art therapy printmaking, and Expressive Therapies Continuum frameworks. This method adapted how printmaking tools, techniques, and materials are used with school youth to be safe and accessible for social and emotional engagement, as well as addressed multiple developmental levels of student youth through specified printmaking processes. The elementary school setting was a fixed structure in which the printmaking method was facilitated through scheduled time frames for set up, safety, and therapeutic processing. The general student body, including particular students in the Art Therapy program, had a specific community culture of educational focus, behavioral expectation and social language that influenced the development of the method. Printmaking was the chosen adaptable media due to its historical and contemporary impact as a communication form for people. It shares information to others, celebrates practices in a collective holding space for individual and collaborative efforts, and the indirect process and product of the artmaking strengthens new perspective of one's own creativity and understanding.