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==Lucia Šimončičová in Bratislava, Slovakia, asks:== My aim is to find answers mainly for these questions: * What are the opportunities and options of art therapy in Therapeutic Communities for addicted to psychoactive substances? * How is it possible to implement art therapy programe into the programme of TC? * What are the principles of constructing/creating and subsuming/integrating art therapy programme in TC? * Which art therapy targets/goals are appropriate to set regarding to the goals/needs of TC? * Which needs of clients are more imporatnt to aim in art therapy sessions at? * How is it possible through the art therapy to affect (cast aside) their maipulative behaviour? * Or how to help them to cope with stressors through the art therapy? * How to create the art therapy programme to enhance self-esteem? * How is it to improve communication skills through the art therapy? * And how to help them acqire appropriate problem solving skills; conflict resolution skills? * How to help them gain affect orientation and regualtion through art therapy? * How to work with their resistance, lack of motivation, swift changes in mood, that emerge in the art therapy process? * How to attract them for art therapy to be able to perceive it as helpful/really meaningful for them. How to achieve, that they will try to gain as much as possible from art therapy session? * How to establish self-dicipline skills? How to help them face and cope with anger, fustration through the art therapy? * How to help them set in order their thoughts and elimnate their chaos? * How to help them setting the goals and follow them? * What kind of tasks/assignements are appopriate for special group of addicted people in TC? (I mean tasks/assignments, that are less psychodynamic orientated and more practical) * What are the differences of working with underaged clients (adolescents)? * And what are the special needs of dual diagnosis? * Which art therapy techniques are useful for different types of clinets? * When is it appropriate to start with art therapy? * When is the art therapy useful for clients? * What is the effect of art therapy in TC? * What are the particularities of art therapy work in TC? ==Useful online and published sources about Art Therapy and Therapeutic Communities== *'''From [http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/biblio-windsor-bydate.htm Windsor Conference Papers LISTED by DATE ]''' on the Planned Emvironment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre website **1983 ''Art Therapy in a Therapeutic Community'' Maclagan, David **1984 ''Art Therapy in the Vondelstraat'' Labruyere, Noortje **1989 ''Dynamics in Psycho Motor Therapy and Art Therapy in Amstelland A'' Kunstt, Peter and Kampstra, Yolande **1996 ''Therapeutic Community Training Sessions from the Perspective of the Art Therapy'' Gerritsen, Monique *'''From [http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/biblio-tc1-20byauthor.htm International Journal of Therapeutic Communities (Vols. 1-12) which then became Therapeutic Communities (Vols. 13ff.) CONTENTS, by AUTHOR]''' on the Planned Emvironment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre website **Gerritsen, Monique ''Art therapy: The real art is in the process'' 16:1 (1995), 25–35 **Gerritsen, Monique ''On an island in the sun: The place of art therapy in training for therapeutic community practice'' 18:2 (1997) 133–143 **Teasdale, Colin ''Art therapy as a part of a group therapy programme for offenders'' 18:3 (1997) 209–221

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