Citation

Coşkunlu A, Tanıl E, Coffey A, Büyüktaşkın D, Mulligan A. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 2018; 32(1): 19-39.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the National Health Service)

DOI

10.1080/02668734.2017.1334150

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

We describe the use of child art psychotherapy (CAP) following the Vasarhelyi method in an 11-year-old female with a history of anxiety and depression which limited her capacity to attend school and in a 15-year-old male who had a history of depressive symptoms with suicidal thinking. In each case, the use of other therapies such as cognitive behaviour therapy was not possible or unsuccessful. Through the creation of images, each young person revealed concerns which had not been previously verbalised, and recovery was linked in time to the revelation of these worries. We propose the use of the Vasarhelyi method of CAP as an adjunctive treatment of depression in young people. © 2017 The Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the NHS.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent; human; child; female; male; case report; suicidal ideation; depression; suicide attempt; school child; clinical article; automutilation; priority journal; mental health service; childhood disease; outpatient department; art therapy; Article; imagery; child art psychotherapy; vasarhelyi method