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Eyes-on-Trays

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Sand therapy is a highly visual therapeutic intervention modality. The client uses miniature figures, sand, and perhaps water to create a scene in the tray. As most mental health practitioners are trained in verbal-dependent therapies, how does the new sand therapist make the shift to understanding client-created scenes in the tray? This article suggests that the fields of Visual Literacy (Debes, 1968) and Visual Thinking Strategies (Housen, 1983; Yenawine, 2013) can inform sand therapy educators, trainers, and supervisors in this vital area. Eyes-on-trays, an adaptation of Housen's eyes-on-canvas, is offered as a new byword for the importance of developing visual literacy in sand therapists.

Source: World Journal for Sand Therapy Practice®

DOI: 10.58997/wjstp.v2i3.93

Author: Linda E Homeyer

Institution: Texas State University

Language: English

Topic: Art Therapy and Mental Health

Subfield: Conservation

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4402117834

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