Use of Art Therapy in Social Work

The main topic of this bachelor´s work is use of art therapy in social work. In the first under chapter of theoretic part I define the art therapy, it´s history, it´s forms which I split up in the individual part and the group part and I also define the education of the art therapist. Further I mention target groups such as children, adults and seniors. I also describe the different stances in art therapy. There are some methods like imagination, animation, concentration, shakeout, transformation and reconstruction. At the end of the first under chapter I have described technics of art therapy. Second under chapter contains the concept of social work, the role of the social worker and his education and social services. The practical part of this work contains qualitative research with use of technic of half standardized interview and with questioning method. The half standardized interviews were with five social workers and two art therapists who work in Brno in social services. The main goal of this bachelor´s work was to map possibilities of using the art therapy in social services. Particular goals were to find out, if the art therapy helps the users in social services, in what exactly does art therapy help and in which situations it´s most convenient to use the art therapy. Research questions are concentrated on application of art therapy in social services, on methods and technics of art therapy, theirs use in the context of social work and in this work is also shown the importance of working cooperation between social worker and art therapist. In my opinion I have full filed the results and I have found that the art therapy helps the clients with solving demanding situations, under stress and also just in a bad mood. Best benefits are development of communication, self-expression and connecting contacts. In my opinion the results of my survey could be used by social workers and also the art therapist. The results can be used by facilities which will get basic information about other types of facilities and they can improve their own deficiency. I also guess that this work can be interesting for the students who study social work or for the art therapists who want to concentrate themselves for social area