Creative Artistic Therapies: another way to breathe and make our children evolve.

Creative Artistic Therapies: another way to breathe and make our children evolve.

Today is World Arts Day and you know that we are very committed to how its strength and magic accompany and make our children with autism grow. You know that in the VICON Method Music is our best ally but today we want to make a special mention of other Creative Artistic Therapies that, although less known, are equally fantastic as a resource for growth in our children.

Music Therapy, Art Therapy, Dance Movement Therapy, Drama Therapy and Psychodrama. These artistic-creative therapies implicitly carry a different way of conceiving health and illness .

Estas formas de tratamiento parten de una concepción holística del ser humano, más positiva e integral, en línea con la definición de la Organización Mundial de la Salud en la que la enfermedad no es tanto la ausencia de salud sino la dificultad o incapacidad para acceder al propio potencial dentro del contexto concreto en el que vive la persona, asociado a una privación de bienestar físico, mental y social. El terapeuta artístico creativo sabe potenciar a las personas humanizando la convivencia entre unos y otros haciéndolos protagonistas de su tiempo y espacio, de su ahora y del destino de sus propias vidas. 

In many countries around the world, creative arts therapies already have significant development as scientific and professional disciplines. In our case, the applications of art therapy for children is a truly exciting field, it seems that it is a field in which disabilities and abilities are not organized equally and allow us to be with everything that this entails. Children who do not have the ability to articulate their emotions and internal processes in words with the same ease as an adult. This is the reason why art therapy is an optimal resource for children to express their emotionality in a healthy and creative way.

All children can benefit from art therapy. It is especially beneficial for children with oral expression difficulties, such as children with developmental delays or autism, very shy children or children who have not yet mastered the language. It is also true that in children with language it can be a way to work on non-verbal language, creativity and artistic expressiveness. Art Therapies are also used by child psychologists as a therapeutic complement in the case of children who have gone through emotional trauma, abuse, catastrophes or family losses.

Working with artistic media reduces stress , improves mood and general disposition. It facilitates the child's communication and expressive abilities as well as increases serotonin levels in the brain, helping well-being and reducing anxiety.

Con estas disciplinas se trabaja para promover el crecimiento emocional y mental. A diferencia de la instrucción artística, desarrolla habilidades para la vida como la independencia y la colaboración. El arte es una salida para la autoexpresión, la imaginación y la creatividad. Las artes visuales son muy impactantes y colaboran en el desarrollo cognitivo, la orientación visual y espacial, las habilidades motoras finas y la planificación. 

El arte encaja naturalmente con el autismo, ya que puede ayudar a las personas con autismo a expresarse a través de imágenes, al tiempo que es una actividad relajante. Las interacciones cara a cara, como las conversaciones, pueden ser estresantes para las personas con autismo, lo que dificulta la comprensión de lo que el individuo siente o piensa. Muchas personas con autismo luchan con la comunicación pero la mayoría de ellos son pensadores visuales. 

Music Therapy: any musical activity, singing, dancing, listening to music, playing an instrument... brings all cognitive cavalry into play and stimulates practically all cognitive functions.

Art Therapy: painting with fingers, hands or feet, making a collage, modeling, sculpting... all contact with materials allows us to explore, do excellent sensory and sensitive work and promotes interaction with others and strengthens bonds . Even picking up one of those cameras that we have forgotten in a drawer can be a plastic resource that will not leave our little ones indifferent.

La Danza Movimiento Terapia: como camino, como respiro, como me siento, si trabajo en el suelo, de pie, en una silla o encima de una cama todo da unas posibilidades de expresión corporal inigualables, si a todo esto le unimos el poder de la música crea una combinación exquisita que ningún niño ni adulto puede resistir. 

El Psicodrama y la Drama Terapia: son disciplinas que emergen del mismo padre pero el abordaje terapéutico es diferente. Ambas fomentan la espontaneidad, la creatividad y el cambio. Sus métodos no son excluyentes. Qué poco hacemos teatro y qué beneficios más sutiles y excelentes nos despierta, con marionetas, con sombras chinas, con las manos y una linterna, con vestuario con telón… nos da el marco ideal para recrear un espacio de magia, sorpresa, susto o risa… que no sólo despertará el interés de nuestros pequeños sino que nos pondrá a nosotros en una situación distinta, creativa e imaginativa que hará conectar con ellos, con nuestro público de manera expectacular. 

We know that we are not in an easy time to be able to attend good therapy in these disciplines but who is going to leave us behind and why not try some activity that has a different breath, that has another texture, another smell, another color... We encourage you to let your imagination fly because when it comes to art it is within us and our children, so take advantage of it to stimulate the growth of your attachment, encourage interaction and family fun?

Cristina Oroz Bajo

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