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Reducing Psychological Harm from Traumatic Events Among Children and Adolescents: Art Therapy

Task Force Finding*

Art therapy has been proposed as an indicator of a child's mental processing and as a means of resolving traumatizing exposures.

The Task Force finds insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of art therapy in reducing psychological harm in children and adolescents, because only one study of fair quality of execution was found.

*From the following publication:

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Recommendations to reduce psychological harm from traumatic events among children and adolescents. Adobe PDF File [PDF - 58KB] Am J Prev Med 2008;35(3):314-6.

Review completed: June 2006