Alternative Therapies and new instruments in

the social action

Christin Adler, Jenny Babatz, Maria Fischer, Annegret Hantel, Juliane Hesse, Annika Huke, Vanessa Köllner, Alena Kolitsch, Franziska Martin, Katharina Matz, Theresa Pingel, Viktor Reimer, Franziska Rein, Karolin Scheidler, Jakob Schergaut, Nico Stade, Saskia Stötzer, Vera Titze, Katarina Uebner, Michaela Werner, Christine Weigelt, Simone Schöll

Structure

• Art Therapy

• Family constellation

• Genogram

• Gestalt Therapy

Art Therapy

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Art Therapy

• kind of Psychological Therapy

• uses art media types as the primary communication

• established since the middle of the 20th century

• it‘s uses for individual and group therapy‘s

• special: artistic medium 4

Emotions

• happy

• relaxed

• confused

• sad

• angry

• free

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Family constellation

„Inside into in the hidden dynamics of the family“Douglas Economy

What is the function of „family

constellation“?• address family conflicts (i.e. divorce, miscarriage, illness)

• uncover reasons for physical / emotional suffering

• uncover hidden dynamics of the family / relationship

• release tensions within and between people• solve misunderstandings in relationships

How does “family constellation” work?

• participants represent family members• positioned in relation to each other

according to the client’s feeling• similarity between participants’ and real

family members’ feelings and thoughts

What is the use of family constellations

for social work?• social worker:

– insights about client‘s family problems– solving conflicts among professionals

• client: – awareness and visualization of personal

life situation– access to unknown emotions and family

problems

Impressions „Emotionally challenging“

„Deeper awareness of my family“

„Showing reality and the whole situation“

„Intense experience“

„Touching“

What is a genogram?• demonstration of a family tree with at least

three generations• you get varied information about the family

members and their relationship • show the information about the family in a

graphical form • they allow a fast overview about the complex

family structure

What is a genogram?

• genogram consist of normal symbols

• each symbol stands for a family member

• discover the change of family structures

• interview to find out the relationship

• used in youth welfare office & in different therapy facilities

Gestalt Therapy

• “It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.” (May Sarton)

What is Gestalt Therapy?

• a type of therapy used to deepen our awareness of ourselves and our feelings in a less intellectual manner than more traditional forms of therapy

• Gestalt implies the wholeness

• feelings in the foreground and in the background

The Effects of Gestalt Therapy?

• we are able to understand ourselves and to choose whether we want to make changes or not

•  we are usually identified with only one side of an internal conflict

• if we can get in touch with both sides, the difficulty can be resolved without force, the solution just unfolds naturally

Summary of our project week

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