Art therapy is an intervention that provides the opportunity for non-verbal expression and communication.
Art is a non-threatening way to visually communicate anything that is too painful to put into words. Often victims of sexual abuse or other trauma have been lied to, threatened, or misled with words by their abusers or other adults whom they trusted. Words have become misleading and mistrusted, and strictly verbal approaches to therapy may meet with more resistance.
Since most people are used to communicating in words and not images, our grasp of non-verbal communication is less sophisticated than spoken languages; therefore, we have fewer established defence patterns.
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