АRT THERAPY TOOLS IN CRISIS COUNSELING

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to reveal the possibilities of using art therapeutic methods for psychological support of people who survived traumatic events in the phase of resource accumulation. A systematic approach was used to write the article, which allowed to reveal the possibilities of art therapy in the structure of crisis counseling. The difference between crisis counseling and other forms of psychological assistance is highlighted, the main tasks and stages of work are revealed. The place of art therapy in the range of crisis care techniques is revealed. It is noted that art-therapeutic techniques make it possible to indicate their experiences in all sensory channels, which activates the vital forces of the individual. It is claimed that due to the variability of art therapy and its features, a specialist can form a productive individual tactic of helping a person, including to restore integration. The main mechanisms of psychological influence, which are typical for art-therapeutic technologies, are analyzed, the main factors and functions are determined. Separately considered the task of the therapist in working with a person who has experienced traumatic events, the activation of personal, generic and transpersonal resources is highlighted, which is achieved through the use of a number of art-therapeutic techniques. It is noted that art therapy is a means of gaining inner strength by clients, their awareness of their interests and their self. Separately, the possibilities of art psychotherapy in working with children who have psychological traumas caused by war are revealed. Approaches to understanding mental trauma are analyzed and the strategy of helping to overcome it by means of art therapy, based on the interpretation of the concept of post-traumatic development, is outlined. The place of art therapy as a method of helping a person in a crisis period of life is determined, the advantages of its use in working with mental injuries of a person are described. Examples of art-therapeutic methods and technologies that are most effective and environmentally friendly in overcoming the consequences of psychotraumatic events are given. It is noted that the topic of providing psychological assistance to persons who have experienced traumatic experience by means of atr-therapy has further prospects for development for persons of different age categories.