Stories of substance:Story-making in art therapy with substance-abusing mothers and their children
Year: 2010
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This research proposes a short-term art therapy treatment program that aims to address poor attachment between substance-abusing mothers and their children. Although there \nare a number of studies linking impoverished attachment patterns to intergenerational psychosocial problems, including continued substance abuse, there are relatively few treatment programs designed to address this issue. There are fewer still within the creative arts therapies that attend to the bond between substance-abusing mothers and their children. This paper proposes a model for a program that combines narrative therapy and art therapy within the framework of attachment theory. For this research project, a short-term art therapy program was developed with a focus on story-making as a means \nof relationship-building between substance-abusing mothers and their children, ages 3-6. An exploratory trial program was implemented at a residential rehabilitation centre for \nchemically-dependent mothers and their children. Feedback from the mothers and children, in the form of questionnaires and field observations, served as the impetus for the development of the program as presented here.
Author: Ninat Friedland
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2290946629