ERIC Number: EJ992044
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0742-1656
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Art Enrichment: Evaluating a Collaboration between Head Start and a Graduate Art Therapy Program
Klorer, P. Gussie; Robb, Megan
Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, v29 n4 p180-187 2012
Head Start, a U.S. federally funded program, prepares children for school through early childhood intervention in social-emotional and cognitive arenas. This article describes program evaluation survey results from the past 5 years of an 18-year collaboration between a university graduate art therapy program and 8 Head Start centers. Graduate art therapy students provided weekly art enrichment for children who were referred by their teachers to work on individualized social-emotional goals. End-of-year surveys documented the Head Start teachers' and coordinators' observations of positive social-emotional behavioral changes in the 5 areas of verbal communication, impulse control, interaction with peers, attention span, and self-esteem. The program received high ratings overall and particularly for the graduate art therapy students' coordination of interventions. (Contains 1 table and 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Children, Intervention, Enrichment, Art Education, College School Cooperation, Outcomes of Education, Social Development, Emotional Development, Behavior Change, Verbal Communication, Self Control, Peer Relationship, Attention Span, Self Esteem, Surveys, Observation, Program Evaluation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Illinois
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