Study on the validity of the theoretical paradigm of art therapy for vulnerable children

Abstract

Purpose

The vulnerable children refer to the special group of children with deviation in the process of children's psychological development and personality formation due to growth dilemmas.

Materials and methods

This may incur a series of serious social and family problems. The vulnerable children mainly cover the children suffering from children's psychological problems, such as childhood autism, autism, social anxiety and hypersensitivity, fear, depression, and PTSD arising from other factors. At present, the research results at home and abroad mainly focus on the psychological dynamic correlation investigation and solution discussion of a certain kind of difficult factor in the children's psychological development based on statistical data by the experimental methods, such as scale and model, and there is a blind spot in the humanistic orientation theory construction of psychological treatment for vulnerable children, causing the social reflection on children's psychological predicament from the humanistic perspective cannot be performed in related researches and going against searching for universal and integral theoretical paradigm for solving related problems.

Results

Sophisticated technologies for the observations have emerged increasingly for enabling the psychological features of vulnerable children through developmental cognitive neuroscience experiments.

Conclusion

This paper introduces humanistic art therapy theory, focuses on the construction of a theoretical paradigm, and verifies its effectiveness based on the experimental results on the psychological development of vulnerable children, with an efficient performance.

IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION

• This study mainly refers to children with difficulty in social inclusion and psychological development.

• The results showed that two kinds of art therapy can obviously improve the psychological disorders of vulnerable children.

• The goal was to enhance self-cognition, strengthen emotional interaction, and implement positive motivation.

Keywords:

• Vulnerable children
• art therapy
• humanism
• paradigm and effect verification
• growth dilemma
• dynamic correlation investigation
• children autism

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.