Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Starting Fieldwork

I am rather excited about starting fieldwork this upcoming week. I guess more excited about getting the planning done and implemented. To be able to start up a program to help school age children develop their social skills, fine motor skills, and many others. I was researching a lot of resources and came up with a lot of sights that were very helpful in getting together information and materials to plan a session with your students, clients, or patients. I thoroughly enjoyed finding resources for this project below.

Art Project- How do your kids see themselves?

Through my fieldwork, I am hoping to find out a lot more in how kids and teenagers see themselves today. And the difference between ages. This is very important in understanding how your kids think and how they feel about themselves. You may actually find out who may have low self esteem, if they are sad, happy, or upset with anyone around them. Then you can discuss with them why they drew themselves like this. It creates an open and safe atmosphere to talk openly about your feelings with others. It has been shown that people feel more free to express themselves in other ways than language.

Improving Fine motor
How Art can affect how we see others
Posted by lady at 11:29 AM

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2011 at 6:58 PM

    It's so good to hear that someone is excited and can see the positive side of FW. It's great to hear about treatment ideas too. Even though you chose art therapy to work with children, so many ideas can be adapted for other ages. As you said, people feel more free to express themselves in other ways than language and that applies to many different types including adults. Art therapy has been shown to help people suffering from PTSD and eating disorders. We should all share our ideas with each other. We never know how others can adapt them to be used with different types of clients.

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