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The Eight Frame Colored Squiggle Technique
Abstract
In this art therapy adaptation of the squiggle technique, the client draws eight colored squiggles on a paper folded into eight frames and then develops them into images utilizing a full range of color. The client is encouraged to write titles on each frame and use them to compose a story. This technique often stimulates emergence of meaningful graphic and verbal content in the first session. Significant psychological and perceptual aspects of the process are discussed, including the client's tendency to correlate spatial placement with meaningful imagery and the inclination to try to balance opposites. Case examples illustrate some results of this technique from a Jungian perspective.
... The findings showed that from the personal visual disclosure to verbal disclosure, art expression was able to let the participants express their real feelings, focus on exploring those issues they were concerned with, face their problems more directly, and understand themselves at a deeper level, which were similar to what art therapists had found in their studies (Malchiodi, 2003). This is also why the art approach has been described as most helpful for individuals who are having emotional crisis in their lives (Malchiodi, 2003;Steinhardt, 2006). With the person-centred approach used by the counsellor, the participants believed that their counsellor was able to understand their feelings and issues through observing and listening to what they shared from their artwork (Malchiodi, 2003). ...
... As he slowly came to focus on expressing his emotions and issues creatively in the making and sharing of his artwork, he discovered that he was able to recall the best memories of his life, then shared his feelings regarding his financial difficulties and job hunting in the following sessions. His improvement also show that visual materials enabled him to produce and recall more verbal expression (Malchiodi, 2003;McNamee, 2004;Steinhardt, 2006), and art-making activities were a more activating and relaxing process to help him achieve something meaningfully in counselling (Gladding & Newsome, 2003). As Heywood (2003) has suggested, using art in a therapy setting can provide a safe place for out-patients, like Shawn, to express a variety of feelings. ...
This study provides a better understanding of using visual arts in counselling adults with depressive disorders. Three in-depth case studies were conducted in the counselling unit of a mental health hospital in Malaysia. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods were applied to explore three adult participants’ counselling experiences. They attended six individual counselling sessions, which included four art-making activities, and two after-session interviews, for approximately two months. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyse the qualitative data. The findings showed that through the therapeutic use of visual arts, the participants were able to explore and express various emotions, face their problems, communicate better with themselves and the counsellor, achieve a deeper self-understanding, and make meaningful progress in counselling, even though some of them experienced a sense of uncertainty at the beginning of some art-making activities.
... Incorporating techniques of Touch Drawing (Koff-Chapin, 1996) and the Eight Frame Colored Squiggle (Steinhardt, 2006) with this guiding principle can stimulate a cathartic process within the client, leading toward change (Miller & Rollnick, 2002;Rogers, 2007). This activity fits well with the principle of supporting self-efficacy because it allows the client to increase awareness on his or her own, creatively. ...
... Instructions 1. The counselor describes Touch Drawing to the client, using Koff-Chapin (1996) and Steinhardt (2006) • What is your story? ...
Scholars have suggested that counseling theory is greatly enhanced by adding creative approaches (Degges-White & Davis, 2011). However, few suggestions have been made in the counseling literature indicating how motivational interviewing can be creatively used. In addition, the majority of creative approaches for problem behaviors within the professional literature have focused primarily on the application of creative interventions with traditional 12-step programs (Wilson, 2003). Examples of creative approaches consistent with motivational interviewing will be offered, with particular attention given to addressing motivational interviewing's four principles.
... In some cases, shared patient-therapist artworks are created as a means for becoming familiar with one another. The shared creation is also an evaluative tool for the therapist at the onset of the treatment (Schur, 2015;Steinhardt, 2006). One of the most familiar tools is Winnicott's Squiggle Game, aimed at creating an initial "interview" with the child during therapy (Abram, 2018). ...
... Drawing without intention or direction can alleviate the pressures brought on by high expectations. This art form can be particularly liberating for those without formal art training, with low self-esteem, with a pervasive fear of failure or with difficulty in knowing how and where to start when engaging in the creative process through art making (Hanes, 1995;McNamee, 2004;Steinhardt, 2006;Ziegler, 1976). ...
Art therapists help to access and awaken their clients' personal, latent creativity by promoting art making by the client (Snyder, 1997). Art Therapists aid clients by re-establishing creative thought and flow. They encourage the use of art materials, assist with the engagement in the art-making processes, and facilitate reflection on art made in the context of psychotherapy (Lombardi, 2014). Exercising creativity in therapy is an effective way to develop problem-solving and original thinking approaches, and it ultimately enables clients to generalize these skills towards other areas of life (Lowenfeld & Brittain, 1987). It is not uncommon for people to lose touch with creativity as a result of coping with life stressors, transitions or trauma. Through engagement with art making in art therapy, clients can potentially address psychological blockages that might inhibit or prevent access to creative thinking.
This pilot study sought to understand the use of art in counselling an adult client with depression. An in-depth case study that combined qualitative and quantitative approaches was used to investigate the participant's counselling experience. The participant attended six counselling sessions that included four art-making treatment plans for a month period in a local mental health hospital. Data collection and analysis involved the observation of counselling sessions and the client's artwork, session evaluation questionnaires and interviews. Significant themes and images regarding the participant's response to art were reported and discussed. The results showed that using art in counselling could facilitate an adult client's self-understanding, communication with the self and the counsellor, and the making of progress in counselling.
This article is adapted from a panel presented at the 1999 American Art Therapy Association Conference in Orlando, Florida. It was a follow-up to a panel of the same title delivered at the 1998 conference in Portland, Oregon. The objectives were to appreciate the similarities, differences, and unique qualities among three formal art therapy assessments for adults: the Ulman Personality Assessment Procedure (UPAP), the Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS), and the Person Picking an Apple from a Tree Drawing (PPAT).
Over a period of several decades, D.W. Winnicott evolved a personal way of relating to and communicating with children, offering them a live professional setting in which to discover themselves. He believed that, in the right case, a full and free use of the first interview can yield rich rewards, and he claimed that the right cases for this are common. He hoped that, by presenting these case studies, he would introduce the reader to the exciting potential of his approach, which depends as much on selection (of therapist) as on training. Here is his presentation - seventeen case histories whose significance for child psychiatry is in the tradition of Freud's case histories of the treatment of adult neurotics. Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry provides a fruitful feedback to psychoanalysis itself. This indeed was Winnicott's purpose: to help establish a creative dialogue between psychoanalysis and child psychiatry.
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