If you refer to David Barlow’s UP and his perception of psychological disorders art therapy would serve as a good complement. In depression the healing process could be visualized by “colours or shades” towards a lighter mood. David Barlow finds that psychological disorders share an underlying structure made up of a generalized biological vulnerability, a generalized psychological vulnerability, and of specific psychological vulnerability. In Barlow's model, vulnerabilities ‘are activated by current stress and a disorder emerges. Art therapy as a form of psychotherapy that uses art media as its primary mode of communication fits a wide range of difficulties, disabilities or diagnoses. These include, for example emotional and mental health problems. References:
J Consult Clin Psychol. 2014 Jul 21. An Idiographic Analysis of Change Processes in the Unified Transdiagnostic Treatment of Depression. Boswell JF, Anderson LM, Barlow DH.
Child Fam Behav Ther. Jan 2009; 31(1): 20–37, doi: 10.1080/07317100802701228 PMCID: PMC2712286 NIHMSID: NIHMS47160
Development of a Unified Protocol for the Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Youth. Jill T. Ehrenreich, Clark M. Goldstein, Lauren R. Wright, and David H. Barlow
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