title: Use of art therapy with post-traumatic stress disordered veteran clients.
abstract: 1. The post-traumatic stress disordered veteran client may exhibit a cluster of problematic behaviors that are integral to current maladaptive coping patterns. 2. These coping patterns can be successfully addressed through a multidisciplinary therapeutic approach that emphasizes client-controlled expression of emotions and client-focused step-by-step behavior modification. 3. Art therapy and nursing, in a collaborative approach, can facilitate individual and group interventions that promote expression of feelings, congruency between experience and self-concept, and feelings of effectiveness in behavioral change.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany 47150.
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Hines-Martin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ising
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001155:Art Therapy; D003130:Combat Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011613:Psychotherapy; D014728:Veterans / Q000523:psychology*