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Art, as a learned coping skill can be an excellent therapy for many mental health difficulties. It can be an effective method for children to develop self respect and can be of benefit in behavioral health applications for youth.

Art therapy is a professional therapy administered by board certified therapists, who use art along with therapy to help those with mental health disorders to open up and express themselves, as well as to heal  from emotional wounds from the past and present.

Both art as self-help skill, and professional art therapy can be an effective part of the healing process in such disorders as:

OCD,
Bipolar Disorder,
ADHD,
Schizophrenia and related disorders,
Autism,
Borderline Personality Disorder,
Depression,
Eating Disorders,
Substance Abuse.

Very briefly, for those who suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, (OCD), art as a self help coping skilland arts therapy can help many with symptoms of  OCD to balance. It can be an effective  part of professional and self help therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).  For those with Bipolar Disorder, art and art therapy can be of much help for both adults, teens and children to balance mood swings associated with BD. Art can be a type of  natural mood stabilizer. Both arts therapy and art can be an effective part of  a healing process for those with and related disorders. When considered in a professional context it can be a way to help those with the symptoms of schizophrenia  to open up and express themselves. It is effective when young adults have a difficult time opening up to a professional.

Art and arts therapy have been used effectively for children with autism spectrum disorders.  An art teacher from New Jersey who works with children who have special needs feels that teaching children and teens who have various degrees of autism  art in his summer programs has helped them to develop the ability to focus. He describes how one of his students showed much improvement and went on to hold a full-time job. Art was part of what helped many of these children with autism.

A large percentage of those who have suffered from child abuse, art and arts therapy can be of much value in recovery. Art as a self help skill and professional art therapy can help many of those suffering from depression to get away from depressing or violent news content, which is common on the television, as well as to avoid other programming, which can be contributing to one’s depression. Additionally, by engaging in art, and seeing the work of one’s hands, what one created through his imagination and will, it can help most who are suffering or who have suffered with mental health disorders to develop self-esteem.

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