The Efficacy of Art and Writing Therapy: Increasing Positive Mental Health Outcomes and Participant Retention After Exposure to Traumatic Experience

By Judith Pizarro. 2004

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Short-term mood repair through art-making: Positive emotion is more effective than venting (2008, background): “Pizarro (2004) randomly assigned forty-five undergraduates to one of three conditions.”
Effect of Art Production on Negative Mood: A Randomized, Controlled Trial (2007, background): “Pizarro (2004) randomly assigned undergraduates to three conditions: writing about a stressful event, drawing a picture of a stressful event, or drawing a still life.”
Empirical Study on the Healing Nature of Mandalas (2007, background): “The vast majority of written disclosure studies involve only written expression; however, Judith Pizarro (2004) performed a recent study that examined whether art therapy was as effective as writing therapy in improving the outcomes of psychological and health measures.”
Confronting Sadness Through Art-Making: Distraction Is More Beneficial Than Venting (2012, background): “…providing nonclinical participants with the opportunity to make art versus some other kind of activity show that art-making serves as a form of mood repair, at least in the short-term (Dalebroux, Goldstein, & Winner, 2008; DePetrillo & Winner, 2005; Drake, Coleman, & Winner, 2011; Pizarro, 2004).”