Using Art Therapy Techniques to Explore Home Life Happiness

Emily Corrigan-Kavanagh; Carolina Escobar-Tello; Kathy Pui Ying Lo

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004395794_008

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The home plays many roles in our daily lives. It provides shelter and a place to rest. It can be viewed as an extension of the self, portraying our hopes and ideals. However, contemporary homes are filled with modern appliances that tend to offer few opportunities for creative output or experience by placing an emphasis on productivity, reducing potential for self-reflection and psychological growth. This lifestyle of high consumption does not necessarily correlate with long-term happiness but there’s evidence to suggest engagement in creativity can. Furthermore, art creation can engage the emotional centres of the brain and potentially be used to investigate and enhance home happiness. In particular, art therapy techniques (for example, art making in silence) can be used to trigger and explore positive emotions, as this paper will illustrate. Based in the UK, this research will therefore explore how creativity can contribute to home by using approaches from art therapy. A series of workshops, comprising family homeowners, guided by the researcher, used techniques from this field to investigate how home happiness might be developed/facilitated. This paper will present the findings from this, such as creating the right context for reflective art making and facilitating emotional expression with a focus on positive family time.

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Perspectives on Happiness

Concepts, Conditions and Consequences

Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 121

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 23 Mar 2019

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