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Here are articles and resources for the healing process with the aid of the arts. Learn about art therapy aids and how they help the healing process for sick children and other patients.

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Here are articles and resources for the healing process with the aid of the arts. Learn about art therapy aids and how they help the healing process for sick children and other patients.

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Art From The Heart - Suggestions about how art projects can foster health, rest and recreation in Aged Care Facilities, Hospitals, and Places of Rest.

Art As A Healing Force Web - Art As A Healing Force Web will immerse you in the field of art and healing.

Artful tips for healing - The ancients accepted the link between mind and body as fact. With the advent of modern medicine, that link was ignored for a number of years, but today, feelings are acknowledged again as integral to the healing process.

Art heals best by having only itself, not healing, as its goal - Is getting well ever an art, or art a way to get well?

Art is a key to help sick children recover - Many experts in child psychology believe the most important key to the recovery of a sick child lies in stimulating that child's imagination.

Arts in Medicine - The Arts In Medicine program (AIM) at the University of Florida, Gainesville, was co-founded by nurse, artist, Mary Rockwood Lane and poet, physician, John Graham-Pole.. The AIM program was created in 1991 in response of perceived needs of caregivers to re-humanize medicine.

Art therapists help clients evoke emotions through artistic creations - The goal, of course, is to get clients to make connections between what they draw and who they are. But even if that doesn't happen, "they will feel better just for expressing. The process is so therapeutic it doesn't matter."

Art Therapy on the Web - This site was developed to accompany a talk given in July, 1996 to the London Regional Group meeting of the British Association of Art Therapists.

Art Therapy - Let the Pictures Do the Talking - Women being treated at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle sometimes get modeling clay with their chemotherapy, paint pots with their postsurgical painkillers or pastels with their kidney dialysis treatment.

Art therapy aids the healing process for sick children - As the medical center's only board-certified art therapist, Russell gives seriously ill or injured patients the chance to paint - and a chance to heal.

Creating a Healing Environment - What is a healing environment and how to create one.

Healing Art - AwakenHealth- Blending Fine Art & Medical Arts

Healing Environments - Our healing environments provides architectural consulting for interior and exterior environmental designs. Healing Environments concept, consulting and design services deliver a finely tuned environment, providing complete spatial balance and harmony.

Healing Through Art — Most health care organizations are so strapped for money, artwork is not in their budgets. Yet research shows art can help heal both the body and spirit of many patients. In this ABC7 Salute, Dr. Dean Edell looks at a man and an organization that are providing "art for healing."

Hospitals soothe with art - With her cart full of pens, pencils, watercolors and acrylics, she works to ease the pain of cancer victims by leading them into a period of creativity.

How art is helping to heal - Art helps children express themselves and can be used to heal.

Self Portraits Help Sick Children 'Discover the Smile' - Discover the Smile Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization whose president, Lisa Martin, was born and raised in Massapequa, recently announced the installation of 100 self-portrait tile paintings at Schneider Children's Hospital's North Shore University facility.

The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) - is a national association dedicated to the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life enhancing.

The Arts as a Force of Healing, Building, & Empowerment - The Arts have an incredible potential to heal the individual, and to heal communities at times of need and turmoil.

The Healing Environment - Welcome to The Healing Environment, part of Improving the Patient Experience

The healing power of art - Most of our hospitals still suffer from a sick syndrome of plain or threatening architecture. New, open designs incorporating pictures, sculpture and colour bring joy and healing to patients already suffering anxiety about their illness.

'Virtual windows' brighten rooms without a view - When Ernesto Machado's father was hospitalized, Machado couldn't help but notice the drabness of the depressing hospital rooms and waiting areas where they spent hours. Commonly, there were no windows, and the ceiling tiles were spotted with brown water stains.

'Warrior Women' seek healing through art - The event, "Flight from Slumber," was intended to share information about breast health and to re-examine the relationship between art and medicine.

What is a healing environment? - Understanding the components of a healing environment

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