This short film, featuring a variety of arts in healthcare programs, premiered at the 2006 Society for the Arts in Healthcare conference. Highly sought after, the film is a great tool for promoting the value of the arts in healthcare for seasoned professionals or those new to the field. A must have for your organization’s leadership!

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This short film, featuring a variety of arts in healthcare programs, premiered at the 2006 Society for the Arts in Healthcare conference. Highly sought after, the film is a great tool for promoting the value of the arts in healthcare for seasoned professionals or those new to the field. A must have for your organization’s leadership!

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Expressive therapy helps children with life-limiting illnesses and their families express and cope with experiences, thoughts and emotions. Using various therapeutic activities including art, music, play, writing and storytelling, the expressive therapy program: • Determines the child’s emotional, social and psychological functioning • Uncovers feelings or conflicts that the child or sibling is having difficulty verbalizing • Provides an appropriate outlet for expressing feelings • Develops a supportive, trusting and therapeutic relationship • Uses imagery as an aid in healing • Assesses and explores death awareness • Assists the bereaved family work through the painful process of healing • Allows the patient and family to gain some relief from physical or emotional stress BJC Hospice is member of the BJC Home Care Services family and a service of BJC HealthCare. Wings is a service mark of BJC HealthCare. www.bjchospice.org 888.BJC.HOME

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Our hospital uses art therapy as one of its many tools in its family-centered care toolbox – helping to make our hospital child-friendly and help the entire child heal from painful injuries and serious illness.

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An overview of the field of Art Therapy, a 20th century profession with its roots in ancient times and in creating in order to cope with pain. With images of clinicians from all over the world serving a wide variety of people, the film shows: the history and development of art therapy, what art therapists do to help people to create and reflect, the major theoretical approaches, the expansion of the discipline, and some of the reasons art therapy has grown so rapidly. Through viewing those directly involved in the process, the viewer will see how and why art therapy is so very powerful. www.expressivemedia.org

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