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The Vasarhelyi method of child art psychotherapy: an adjunctive treatment in childhood depression

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: We describe the use of child art psychotherapy (CAP) following the Vasarhelyi method in an 11-year-old female with a history of anxiety and depression which limited her capacity to attend school and in a 15-year-old male who had a history of depressive symptoms with suicidal thinking. In each case, the use of other therapies such as cognitive behaviour therapy was not possible or unsuccessful. Through the creation of images, each young person revealed concerns which had not been previously verbalised, and recovery was linked in time to the revelation of these worries. We propose the use of the Vasarhelyi method of CAP as an adjunctive treatment of depression in young people.

Source: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

DOI: 10.1080/02668734.2017.1334150

Authors: Aynur Coşkunlu, Ezgi Tanıl, Anne Coffey, Dicle Büyüktaşkın, Aisling Mulligan

Institutions: University College Dublin, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Waqf University, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Gazi University, Health Service Executive

Language: English

Topic: Art Therapy and Mental Health

Subfield: Conservation

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2723933661

FWCI: 3.717

Cites: 39

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10