Creating art during cancer treatment allows patients to express challenging emotions
Creating art during cancer treatment allows patients to express challenging emotions
[source: UCLA Health]
Making art can be a fun and satisfying endeavor. But for people with cancer, it can also be a therapeutic tool of empowerment for getting through the rigors of medical treatment.
Board certified art therapist Paige Asawa, PhD, MFT(Link opens in new window), believes that expressing oneself is an important part of the path to recovery. The weekly Healing Through Art psychotherapy group, which she facilitates through the Simms Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology(Link opens in new window), is intended to provide that empowerment – to help participants maintain some control over their feelings and mental state during and after treatment.
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/creating-art-during-cancer-treatment-allows-patients-express