ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Lertsiri Bovornkitti, Somjit Kraisree

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Art Therapy in Thailand.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of Thai Traditional & Alternative Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 1, January-April, 2008, page 112.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Dr. Nolan D.C. Lewis, a psychiatrist at New York University started "Art Therapy" in the United States in 1924. His student, Margaret Nuamburg, continued the practice in the field, coining the term in 1957. The implementation of art in psychiatric practice, called "art in psychotherapy", has been contradicted by a prominent art therapist, Edith Kramer, who named her practice as "art as therapy", which considers the art component to be as powerful as the therapy itself. Art therapists in the United States are professionals (ATR)in both "art" and "therapy" and hold a degree in art therapy; their credentials are provided through the American Art Therapy Credentials Board Examination (ATCB). Art therapy in Thailand has been known since 1986; it is very likely that Somsree Kittipongpisal was the person who first mentioned art therapy in her book, but the actual enhancement of the field followed the conference on "An Introductory Course on Art Therapy", held in Bangkok in 2006, organized by a collaborative group of artists and psychiatrists after the tsunami disaster in southern Thailand. Currently, art therapy practice has gained wider practice as the psychiatric staff of the Department of Mental Health at Rajanukul Instutute of the Ministry of Public Health have been practicing art therapy among autistic children. The Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University, has applied "art for all" for treating disabled persons. The Faculty of Fine Arts, Srinakarinwirot University has been working with a community development scheme for children, and Burapha University has erected the Asia Pacific Art Therapy Center, incorporating the Faculty of Nursing, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Faculty of Public Health and Faculty of Medicine. Recently, the first author of this paper published his research work on art therapy for natural disaster victims. The authors suggest further activities for sustaining the development of art therapy in Thailand as follows; 1. Consortium of art therapy centers/units among practitioners and academics from both the state and private sector; 2. Short course training, seminar and workshops; 3. Research on art therapy: - Evaluation of the effectiveness of art therapy evaluation by comparing results between psychotherapy and art; - Studies on the efficacy of art therapy. 4. Establishing an educational program to produce efficient Thai art therapists; 5. Erecting an authorized national center to supervise art therapy practice in Thailand, i,e., setting up a Thai art therapy credentials board.

Keywords: art therapy, thailand

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2008

Address: Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Burapha University, Chonburi

Code: 201000065

ISSN/ISBN: 1685-991x

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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