Connecting, Coping, and Creating: An Expressive Arts Group for First Year College Students. Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Price, Eric W.; Swan, Alyssa M.
• Is Part Of: Journal of creativity in mental health. Volume 15:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 378
• Page End: 392
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: College students -- expressive arts -- group therapy -- creativity in counseling; Psychotherapy -- Periodicals; Arts -- Therapeutic use -- Periodicals; Cultural psychiatry -- Periodicals; Counseling -- Periodicals; Counseling -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 616.89165
• DOI: 10.1080/15401383.2019.1685924
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1540-1383

Abstract

ABSTRACT: First-year college students are at-risk for mental health concerns that surface or are exacerbated by transition to college academics and new lifestyle. The purpose of this article is to: (a) investigate the mental health needs of first-year college students, (b) examine the benefits of an expressive arts group for this population, and (c) present an example of an eight-week expressive arts group curriculum. We describe the rationale for incorporating expressive arts into group therapy with first-year college students and describe an eight-week expressive arts group curriculum designed to help first-year college students connect to others, cope with college demands, and create new ways of expressing themselves.