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Cartoons and Art Therapy

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Researchers determined that published cartoons, with or without words or captions can be used in counseling. Cartoons can serve as stimulus to summarize the nature of people and their existence. Cartoons can be used as an intervention within the counseling session to encourage discussions. Published cartoons can be shared to illustrate particular concerns and help the client to recognize the problem and its implications. Thus, clients become involved in the counseling process.

Jung drew, painted and sculptured representations of dreams and fantasy experiences. He encouraged his patients to make visual images of their own inner experiences and fears. The use of images in counseling is not limited to therapists trained in Jungian psychology. Counselors provide clients with opportunities to create images to facilitate the release of emotional or traumatic experiences. Failing to do that, these feelings might be repressed. We often talk about therapy through art, but there is also a cartoon therapy, because cartoons are images and images are actions. Some therapists usually ask their patients to sketch their feelings and fears. This way, sketches help clarify the situation and illustrate complex problems and relationships.

By graphically representing the issues, all parts of the puzzle are revealed at once. Pictures drawn by counselors in sessions can help in understanding and objectifying counseling issues, increasing openness to oneself. After the drawing is ready, the counselor and client look at it together. The clients/patients prompt themselves in the center of the stories and usually see them as victims of circumstance. Now, after a close examination, the patients are ready to take responsibility for their choices, actions and consequences. People buy cartoons to be cheerful and happy. Everybody can find on Cartoon Bank many cartoons from The New Yorker editions, prints and covers available for sale. This way, people have access to this cartoon pictures therapy that they need to make their lives and the one of their friends and family more interesting.

Three Designs Can Be Put Your Child’s Room

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Children always have some things they want to have. Oftentimes, they want to have things possessing their favorite color or cartoon character. If you are creative, you can make him his very own wall art with himself together with the cartoon character or superhero that he likes. It is nice to see him having a personalized item that he can truly call his.

More so, once you see that smile in your kid’s face, you know that all your efforts and time spent in making the art is worth it. Just make sure that your kid is there when you make the art so that he can tell you if he does not approve of what you are working on. At least when he tells you this, you can make the necessary changes to suit his preference. Nevertheless, if there is nothing much left to do, you have no choice but to make the most out of what you finished. You can just add some decorations to make the art better.

Aside from the cartoon character as his wall art design, you can have a theme in his room to make it more interesting. For example, if you see that he loves animals, perhaps you can turn his room into a mini zoo of some sort. You can make his bed frame have animal heads on the top. The door can have a lion’s head painted in the front. He can even have a somewhat forest kind of painting in the walls so that he can easily have that feeling that he is in a forest with the animals.

One last design that you can do to your child’s room is to put educational items. Putting some shapes, colors and the likes will surely enhance the brain of your kid. They can even try to memorize the things in their walls when they have nothing else to do. Nevertheless, you have to teach them the things in the walls before they memorize it. It is better too if you let them read or see the animals in real life so they know how they behave. They can now imagine the animal once they get back home and understand their nature a little bit more.

The wall art surely is something your kid can be proud. They can tell their friends who comes over your place that his parents did your room and you love it. The friends of your kid might envy your child because his room is something that really reflects what he likes. It is not every day that parents personally set up the room of their kids and do the decorating themselves. In addition, if they want to add something, they can do it freely since it is their room. They know that this is where they can truly express themselves without thinking about what others will say.

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