Evaluating Art Therapy to Heal the Effects of Trauma Among Refugee Youth

Rowe, Cassandra; Watson-Ormond, Rose; English, Lacey; Rubesin, Hillary; Marshall, Ashley; Linton, Kristin; Amolegbe, Andrew; Agnew-Brune, Christine; Eng, Eugenia

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“…Three of these provided objective assessment scores demonstrating symptom reduction (van Wyk et al 2012 ; Bolton et al 2014 ; Vukovich & Mitchell, 2015 ), though only one included a comparison group and locally validated measures (Bolton et al 2014 ). Two reports evaluated interventions aimed at symptom reduction in children (Rowe et al 2016 ). Two other child interventions focused on promoting wellbeing or post-traumatic growth, and did not include pre–post assessments to measure change (Prag & Vogel, 2013 ; Tanaka, 2013 ).…”

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“…Rowe et al ( 2016 ) reported outcomes of the Burma Art Therapy Project, in which 30 refugees (age 11–20 years) from Myanmar living in the USA received an average of 16 sessions of art therapy, either individually or in groups, in schools over a 6-month period. Youth were assessed before and after the intervention using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Hopkins Symptom Checklist, Harvard Trauma Questionnaire, and Piers–Harris Self-Concept Scale At baseline, 40% of participants met criteria for depression and 20% for anxiety.…”

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“…Paratharayil, 2010 ; Kasai et al 2017 ) or acknowledged that the use of unvalidated measures made it difficult to interpret or draw conclusions from their results (e.g. Annan et al 2017 , Rowe et al 2016 ). Even commonly used measures should be validated for use in a new population for whom symptom presentations and idioms of distress may differ (Bass et al 2007 ).…”

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Mental health interventions in Myanmar: a review of the academic and gray literature

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Background.Recent political changes in Myanmar provide opportunities to expand mental health (MH) services. Given Myanmar's unique situation, we felt a need to assemble and interpret available local information on MH in Myanmar to inform service design, rather than simply drawing lessons from other countries. We reviewed academic and gray literature on the experience of MH problems in Myanmar and the suitability, availability, and effectiveness of MH and psychosocial programming.Methods.We searched: (1) Google Scholar; (2) PubMed; (3) PsychInfo; (4) English-language Myanmar journals and databases; (5) the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Network resources website; (6) websites and (7) local contacts of organizations identified during 2010 and 2013 mapping exercise of MHPSS providers; (8) the Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) website; (9) University libraries in Yangon and Mandalay; and (10) identified local MH professionals.Results.Qualitative data suggest that MH conditions resulting from stress are similar to those experienced elsewhere. Fourteen intervention evaluations were identified: three on community-level interventions, three on adult religion-based practice (meditation), four adult psychotherapeutic interventions, and four child-focused interventions. Support for the acceptability and effectiveness of interventions is mostly anecdotal. With the exception of two rigorous, randomized control trials, most evaluations had serious methodologic limitations.Conclusions.Few evaluations of psychotherapeutic or psychosocial programs for people from Myanmar have been published in the black or gray literature. Incorporating rigorous evaluations into existing and future programs is imperative for expanding the evidence base for psychotherapeutic and psychosocial programs in this context.

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“…Designed to tackle health disparities within the refugee population, refugee-focused health and social interventions typically center around community capacity-building, developing self-efficacy to navigate the U.S. healthcare system, and encouraging community empowerment (Baird et al, 2015;Glanz, Rimer, & Viswanath, 2008;Im & Rosenberg, 2016;Wieland et al, 2012). Despite an important foundation of public health social work research on refugee health education interventions, few interventions designed specifically for Burmese refugees have been implemented, and little to no program evaluations have been conducted to assess the feasibility and acceptability in delivery of these health education interventions for Burmese refugees living in the U.S. (Hartwig & Mason, 2016;Ornelas et al, 2017;Rowe et al, 2016;Walker, Koh, Wollersheim, & Liamputtong, 2015).…”

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Refugee Health Education: Evaluating a Community-Based Approach to Empowering Refugee Women in Houston, Texas

Frost¹

2018

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Although resettlement agencies in the United States assist refugees by offering a variety of local social and health services, refugees are still less likely to access these services. Few studies have evaluated refugee health education interventions focusing on barriers to accessing healthcare and overcoming negative social determinants of health. This study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and perceived impact of a yearlong health education intervention to empower Burmese refugee women living in Houston, Texas. The intervention included workshops, community excursions, question and answer (Q&A) sessions, and home visits. The evaluation was a formative qualitative study including interviews with Burmese refugee women who participated in the intervention and local resettlement agency caseworkers. Qualitative content analysis guided the data analysis and was conducted to identify categories and emergent themes. Key findings indicated that motivation to participate in the intervention was impacted by the women’s perceived relevance of health education material to Burmese cultural values and opportunities for hands-on learning to promote self-efficacy. Recommendations for future interventions include the use of community health workers to train refugee health educators, pairing English lessons with health education material to promote development of English language skills, developing teaching materials for refugees with low literacy, establishing bottom-up support from refugee resettlement agencies, and incorporating the social work ecological model to tailor health-focused interventions to the specific needs of the refugee community.

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“…Expressive Arts Therapy combines several of art such as visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing and other creative processes to foster personal growth and community development. Rowe, Watson-Ormond, English, Rubesin, Marshall, Linton, Amolegbe, Agnew-Brune, & Eng (2016) defined art therapy as psychotherapy which uses the art-making process to improve social, mental, and emotional well-being. This therapy can be implemented not only in individual counseling or group counseling, but also in family counseling.…”

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Sharing Life Experiences of Teenage Girl Delinquents through Life Map Sketch

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Adibah²,

Sakari

2017

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Life map sketch is a unique technique of an expressive therapy that can be used in the process of emotional healing for clients. The purpose of this study was to explore the life experiences of teenage girls engaged in delinquent behaviour using life map sketch. Seven teenage girls from one approved school in Malaysia were selected in this study using purposive sampling. The result showed that there were some themes identified from the teenage girls delinquent sharing of life experience in this study. The themes were hardship, expression of emotion, negative behavior, meaning behind the sketch and hopeful. The use of life map sketch's technique help the participants in expressing their latent issues that they found hard to express orally. Therefore, this technique is very promising in improving the counseling services in Malaysia.

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Evaluating Art Therapy to Heal the Effects of Trauma Among Refugee Youth

Cited by 65 publications

References 27 publications

Mental health interventions in Myanmar: a review of the academic and gray literature

Mental health interventions in Myanmar: a review of the academic and gray literature

Refugee Health Education: Evaluating a Community-Based Approach to Empowering Refugee Women in Houston, Texas

Sharing Life Experiences of Teenage Girl Delinquents through Life Map Sketch

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