Art Therapy Of Environmental Factors And Design Research

Art psychotherapy means that in professional therapeutic relationship, the parties use a variety of art forms or self-creation activities, bring their own intuitive imagery to specific visual level, directly show the pictures of deep soul, and produce free association to help eliminate negative emotions, adjust the balance of internal and external relations, cure mental disorders, and impel their personalities to acquire growing and development.Due to differences in understanding, art psychotherapy is usually divided into narrow sense and broad sense in academia.Art psychotherapy of narrow sense mainly refers to the art of painting, which take the visual art form as the major media of psychotherapy; art psychotherapy of broad sense takes the various types of art activities, the purpose of which is to inspire visitors the initiative and artistic creativity, as the main medium and artistic activities visitors can help the visitors to express their emotions and release release their pressure in order to regulate the body and mind and reform harmony in internal and external relationships.Art Psychotherapy is not a new thing. Throughout human history, prehistoric cave mural art is regarded as historical germination of art psychotherapy, indicating that humans in ancient times had been aware of the arts which had a special role in the treatment of heart. Art is originated in the need of human self-expression and art itself has the functions of adjusting the treatment of body and mind.In the West, art psychotherapy appeared as independent discipline and profession in the 1940 s, and was established in the early 1950 s and 1960 s. After development of half a century, art psychotherapy acquired the affirmation and welcome from artistic people, and it gradually developed into a kind of psychological treatment which has extensive role and specialization in modern psychological field.In art psychotherapy process, therapeutic environment is the main site of art psychotherapy operation, and is the basic condition to develop and carry out treatment;it provides a quiet space and freedom of artistic activities for visitors, and has an open,inclusive and warm and other psychological symbolism; it’s purpose is to makevisitors cynically narrate your own hidden secrets in therapeutic environment, to make their own emotion get full catharsis, and to reflect on their own thinking and so on; it has a unique meaning for visitors, therapists and therapeutic purposes to achieve and plays an important function.For example, all factors in therapeutic environment may have physiological reactions and psychological impact on visitors’ feel and constraints,such as color, light, texture and materials and so on, and these factors will form a silent language environment to express a unique atmosphere and mood for visitors,make visitors produce the association to obtain a kind of spiritual enjoyment, which has important significance of implications for the visitors.The substance of this essay is to elaborate the important significance of therapeutic environmental factors, and to create a good therapeutic environment for visitors in order to allow visitors to be treated in the best physical and mental state and facilitate the process and the effects of treatment. Therefore, it must be defined that what factors will affect and constrain the physiological responses and psychological feelings of visitors. This essay carries a detailed analysis of the five aspects including color, texture, light, sound, temperature and humidity which are the major environmental factors affecting the therapeutic effect.Therapeutic environment plays a particularly important role for building therapeutic relationships and reaching therapeutic purposes. It is an important factor to be reckoned with, so to extract the design principles of art psychotherapy environment becomes particularly important in order to better create a more comfortable and rational art psychotherapy environment for visitors.This essay, based on the features of art psychotherapy and functions of art psychotherapy environment,refining design principles of art psychotherapy environment as the safety principle,the professional principle, the targeted principles and the art expressive principles.The full text consists of four parts: the first part focuses on the characteristics of art psychotherapy and its, the environmental factors impacting art psychotherapy effect, as well as the basic structure of art psychotherapy environment; the second part focuses on the function of art psychotherapy environment; the third part according to the features of art psychotherapy and functions of art psychotherapy environment, etc.previously described extracts the design principles of art psychotherapy environment,and based on design principles creates a more comfortable and rational therapeutic environment for visitors so as to reach the purpose of best treatment effect; fourth part puts out examples for the design concept of art psychotherapy environment, cites the therapeutic environment corresponding to the main therapeutic forms of art psychotherapy, and combines with the design principles of art psychotherapy environment and the environmental factors impacting art psychotherapy effects process the design ideas of therapeutic environment.