{"id":3407,"date":"2022-03-25T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=3407"},"modified":"2022-04-13T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T07:04:08","slug":"psychotherapist-promotes-art-therapy-as-conduit-for-difficult-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/psychotherapist-promotes-art-therapy-as-conduit-for-difficult-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychotherapist promotes art therapy as conduit for difficult emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Najla Alshamsi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013&nbsp;Art therapy is a safe approach to express feelings that are otherwise difficult to communicate, Art Psychotherapist Dr. Najah Musthafa said March 16.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The psychotherapist gave the talk to 50 people in an event hosted by the Psychology Club at the American University of Sharjah.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musthafa defined this therapeutic technique as a non-threatening, compassionate, and affirming way that uses the creative process to examine meaning, purpose, and perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musthafa highlighted common misconceptions related to the practice of art therapy including the idea that one must be good at art to benefit from the experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The psychotherapist explained that this approach to therapy is versatile as it draws on a variety of theoretical frameworks and methodologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Musthafa, art therapy is a powerful tool for accessing and processing traumatic memories that have been stored in the brain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art therapy can also provide a powerful release through the illustrations made, added Musthafa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Najla Alshamsi UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013&nbsp;Art therapy is a safe approach to express feelings that are otherwise difficult to communicate, Art Psychotherapist Dr. Najah Musthafa said March 16.&nbsp; The psychotherapist gave the talk to 50 people in an event hosted by the Psychology Club at the American University of Sharjah.&nbsp; Musthafa defined this therapeutic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,35,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-3407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-clubs","10":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}