Children who feel sad or depressed
Most of these children fear being rejected. They need an atmosphere where they can be accepted for who they are. Teach them that they are unique. Children feel alone because they do not accept their own particularity.
These children hold back and must be approached with delicacy. Expressive techniques help these children to come out of their state of withdrawal. Performing breathing exercises helps them expand. Draw pictures of their pain, and be able to talk about them afterwards. Let them choose the activity, draw something that they like. These children need help to learn to verbalize their wishes and opinions.
Children who suffer nightly fears and fears
Children need to talk about their fears. For this reason, to start working with them, it is good to ask the child that the first thing he can do is draw his fears.
As he recognizes his fears, exercises can be proposed to help him become more aware, such as representing himself as that terror, talking to him, acting it out with toy figures, winks or representing the dreaded scene, which will help him go learning to face and overcome their fears.
Children with TDH
When parents lose patience with these children and they feel little heard. They have a very poor self-image. When they get someone's attention, are listened to to make them heard, and taken seriously, they can somewhat minimize their hyperactive symptoms.
Any tactile experience helps them focus and become self-aware. Clay, water, sand, finger painting, provides these tactile experiences. In a more advanced stage of the process we can provide activities that require more movement, creations, sculptures ...
When parents separate
When the parents separate, the child feels that he has split in two. Depending on the age at which the parents separate, children will have different emotional responses.
Between the ages of three and five, children may experience fear, threatening fantasies, guilt, regression, or aggressive behaviors. From the age of six to eight they feel especially sadness, they miss the figure that is not there a lot and they feel that they have the responsibility of reconciling their parents. In preadolescence, they tend to take refuge in games and friends, they can feel anxiety and identity confusion, they can also ally with one of the parental figures. In adolescence they are concerned about relationships and may feel a conflict of loyalties. Art therapy provides tools for them to become aware of their emotions and to accept the process of separation from their parents in the least traumatic way possible.
Sibling rivalry
Parents who have more than one child are likely to hear this "I got it first" kind of exclamation over and over again. These are the cries of children who struggle not to be excluded, or to make sure that their siblings do not receive more favorable treatment. A part of children's social and emotional development is learning to get along with others, to express and control their feelings, and to share and cooperate.
In this situation, the children are offered a joint space with the siblings, of cooperative and strategy games, in which the two siblings do not compete, but rather strive to achieve the same goal and therefore win or lose in set. Both have to resolve their differences by seeking strategies and expressing their needs to reach agreements that satisfy both. An individualized space is also offered for each brother if necessary.
Children who do not want to eat
Almost all children make the attempt at some time to "manipulate" with food or with the fact of vomiting after eating. It is one of the easiest ways for them to attract attention, since they somehow sense that this worries their parents a lot. If the child plays or eats very reluctantly, we cannot rush him or scold him. When we consider that the time to eat has passed, we will indicate the time of the next meal, for example, the snack, and we will wait for that moment to arrive. You have to find a way to make mealtime fun and motivate him.
For example, presenting food in a funny way, making faces or animals; You can also cook with the little one, this is a way that motivates children to eat a lot.
Through the cooking with art workshop we offer children a space to learn to cook creatively, so that through their creations they develop a taste for cooking and art.
Children who pee on the bed
One of the most worrisome symptoms for parents is night urination. In this case, the most appropriate thing is to return to the child the responsibility of his body. He / she is responsible for wetting the bed. Once this is done, we must help them experience their body and their nocturnal urination through a record that they keep themselves.
We can ask them to paint the feeling of being wet @ | in bed. The last step is to help them express their feelings. Most physical symptoms can be addressed through expression, drawing, or clay.
Children suffering from Bullyn
A child can indicate by his or her behavior that he or she is being bullied. We must be vigilant if we observe any of these behaviors.
Lack of will to go to school
Refusing to participate in school activities
Avoidance of social situations
Behaving fearful, fearful anxious
Anxiety disorders such as intense fears
Poor attention in school, low self-esteem, poor interpersonal relationships and difficulty adapting to their family and social environment.
Using Art Therapy promotes self-expression, self-esteem, and the mobilization of blocked emotions to relieve anxiety. It offers coping strategies, how to manage your emotions and make yourself respected by others and yourself.
Children with Aggression