How can creative potential (and imagination) be a tool in the (psycho)therapeutic space?
The integration of artistic and creative expressions in (psycho)therapeutic processes has been gaining ground in academic and scientific circles, with evidence of its benefits for patients.
The integration of the creative dimension facilitates self-expression, communication and understanding psychological and emotional issues. The integration of art is also known for its potential with difficult and traumatic experiences, facilitating access to them, their processing as well as stimulating resilience, growth and self-knowledge.
Creativity in a (psycho)therapeutic context is simultaneously a tool for the therapist and a skill for the patient that facilitates the recognition of the subjectivity and uniqueness of each person, and in this way can be a facilitator of transformation and self-knowledge.
Bibliographic references:
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2013). Creativity: flow and the psychology of discovery and invention. Harper Perennial – Modern Classics.
Halprin, D. (2009). The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy: working with movement, metaphor and meaning. Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Knill, P., Levine, E., & Levine, S. (2005). Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics. Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Lídia Serra
Professor and Researcher at the Department of Psychology at the Autonomous University of Lisbon.
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Patrícia Deus Claudino
Clinical and Health Psychologist and Transdisciplinary Art Therapist
Degree in Psychology (Évora, 2004), Master in Transdisciplinary Art Therapy and Human Development (Barcelona, 2008), Specialist in Clinical and Health Psychology by the Order of Portuguese Psychologists (OPP), Advanced Specialties in Psychotherapy, Justice Psychology and Early Intervention .
(2005-2017) Psychologist at Associação Chão dos Meninos, with intervention in the area of social risk, where she developed psychological intervention with children and young people victims of sexual abuse, socio-therapeutic intervention with their families and sexual aggressors. He also worked with children and young people in residential care and
women victims of domestic violence.
Between 2015 and 2017 she was the technical coordinator of the Associação Chão dos Meninos and technical director of the Family Support Center and
Parental Counseling (CAFAP) from the same institution.
(since January 2018) Member of the Technical Supervision Center (NST) of the District of Évora for the National Early Childhood Intervention System (SNIPI), an organization in which he represents the Ministry of Health and supervises the work carried out by the 13 Local Intervention Teams (ELI) of the District; She is a technical advisor to the Alentejo Regional Coordination Subcommittee (SCRA) for the SNIPI.
(2020-2022) Coordination of the NÓS Project: Primeira Pessoa do Plural, an innovative project for inclusion through the arts aimed at people with experience of illness
mental, boosted by the partnership between the Associação Cultural Pó de Vir a Ser: Departamento de Escultura em Pedra and IPSS MetAlentejo – Association for the
Psychosocial Well-Being in the Community.
(since September 2021) Coordination and promotion of phase 1: Construction of a Methodology/Manual to support Cultural Prescription and identification of networks
of municipal promoters within the scope of the implementation of the Cultural Prescription Project, included in TRANSFORMA: Program for a Culture
Including CIMAC in Central Alentejo, organized by the Associação Cultural Pó de Vir a Ser: Department of Stone Sculpture.
(since January 2023) Coordination and promotion of phase 2: implementation of the Central Alentejo Cultural Prescription Project, included in TRANSFORMA:
CIMAC Program for an Inclusive Culture in Central Alentejo, promoted by the Associação Cultural Pó de Vir a Ser: Department of Stone Sculpture.
(since January 2023) Representative of the Ministry of Health on the Alentejo Regional Coordination Subcommittee.