Éducation thérapeutique et Art-thérapie, une alliance encore trop peu explorée...

Any human being will be exposed to suffering and illness some day in his or her life and this may change (and create difficulties in) his or her private and social life. Supportive care, which art-therapy is part of, proposes «tools» in medical-social frames, to deal positively with those difficulties and enable the patient to become actor of his or her own healing process. Art-therapy uses the creative process for therapeutic items. Recent international research reveals how this unique expertise contributes to the understanding of internal psychological conflicts and problems, and how art-therapy accompanies positive evolution. Even when the patient continuous to cope with difficult and frustrating situations, art-therapy helps him or her to consider problems less as a personal disaster but rather as something to be integrated as a life experience and as a lesson in developing more confidence in his or herself and in the future...