The Effectiveness of Art Therapy for Anxiety in Adult Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Frontiers in Psychology

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Annemarie Abbing¹  Erik W. Baars¹  Leo de Sonneville²  Anne S. Ponstein¹  Hanna Swaab² 

[1] Faculty of Health, University of Applied Sciences Leiden;Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University;Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition

关键词: anxiety;    anxiety disorders;    art therapy;    emotion regulation;    generalized anxiety disorder;    social anxiety disorder;    panic disorder;    social phobia;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01203

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Objectives Art therapy (AT) as a treatment option for anxiety is regularly employed in clinical practice, but scientific evidence for its effectiveness is lacking, since this intervention has hardly been studied. The aim was to study the effectiveness of AT on anxiety in adult women. The specific type of AT studied was anthroposophic AT.

【 授权许可】

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