Art Therapy and the Aesthetic Environment as Agents for Change: A Phenomenological Investigation.

Lazarus-Leff, Betsy

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ERIC Number: EJ576901

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Art Therapy and the Aesthetic Environment as Agents for Change: A Phenomenological Investigation.

Lazarus-Leff, Betsy

Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, v15 n2 p120-26 1998

The hypothesis that improving the aesthetic quality of the environment of a functionally dependent person with traumatic brain injury would show a corresponding positive effect in the attitudes and behaviors of the resident's family system was tested. Effects of environmental manipulations on family and patient are assessed and discussed. (Author/EMK)

Descriptors: Adults, Art Therapy, Family Attitudes, Head Injuries, Institutionalized Persons, Neurological Impairments, Patients, Phenomenology, Physical Environment, Social Support Groups, Therapeutic Environment

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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