Healing-through-Art-Therapy

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Word count: 952

Choice count: 28

Section count: 17

Image count: 17

Error count: 17

Field Related Analysis

Education : 61 matches

(bachelor's degree, choice, degree, discipline, don, goal, intervention, learn, learning, master's degree, motivation, skills, teacher, university)

Dance : 27 matches

(back, break, forward, hold, through, turn, turn away, weight)

photography : 20 matches

(art, arts, visual, visual arts)

Target Structure: (3 matches)

internship (5 matches)

volunteer (2 matches)

volunteering (5 matches)

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Healing-through-Art-Therapy

Art therapist.

You were at the university, and you did your bachelor's degree in the multidisciplinary program. You were doing this program in the discipline, visual arts, psychology and dependence intervention. You were someone who took care of people and liked to understand how they felt. Your teacher talked to you about art therapy. It's at this time you decided to start your master's degree in art therapy. Two opportunities appear to you to continue your goal.

Choice 1 : Internship.

Choice 2 : Volunteering.

Montreal

Internship.

You decided to start an internship in art therapy. Your godfather had an art therapist friend in France. Your godfather decided to help you with this approach and succeeded in obtaining an internship at her clinic in France.

Choice 1 : Focus on learning and improving your skills.

Choice 2 : Take shortcuts and avoid difficult situations.

Eiffel Tour

Volunteering.

When you demonstrated your interest in art therapy, your teacher decided to help you. With all the resources from your teacher, you decided to volunteer in art community art program.

Choice 1 : Focus on learning and improving your skills.

Choice 2 : Take shortcuts and avoid difficult situations.

Volunteer

Focus on learning and improving your skills.

After two weeks, you were very focused on learning skills and improving them. You were in the observation phase throughout the session with patients. You had direct contact with people, but you didn't intervene directly.

Choice 1 : Keep pushing forward despite difficulties.

Choice 2 : Give up and choose an easier path.

Focus

Take shortcuts and avoid difficult situations.

After two weeks, you were a little bit bore because you didn't have concrete. You were someone who needed to experience to hold your concentration and your motivation. So, you started taking shortcuts and avoiding all the difficult situations because you weren't enough stimulated.

Choice 1 : Keep pushing forward despite difficulties.

Choice 2 : Give up and choose an easier path.

Difficulties

Focus on learning and improving your skills.

After two weeks, you were very focused on learning skills and improving them. There were a lot of new things to observe and learn each day. It was a little bit difficult because it's new to you.

Choice 1 : Keep pushing forward despite difficulties

Choice 2 : Give up and choose an easier path.

New things

Take shortcuts and avoid difficult situations.

After two weeks, you were a little bit bored because it was not what you were thinking. You lost a little bit of interest because you don't have a large choice of interaction with people. People are all the same age so no variety. So, you started taking shortcuts and avoiding all the difficult situations.

Choice 1 : Keep pushing forward despite difficulties.

Choice 2 : Give up and choose an easier path.

Don't have large choice

Keep pushing forward despite difficulties.

After one month, you were confronted with the reality of this trade. You finally worked directly with the patient accompaniment of the art therapist, but you notice the difficulty to correctly express with the patients and all the pressure to have all the confidence sometimes very difficult to hear. This weight had more reverberations than you thought. Despite these difficulties you keep pushing forward because inside you, you know that's your dream job.

Choice 1 : Commit fully to art therapy.

Choice 2 : Turn away from it.

Dream job

Give up and choose an easier path.

After one month, your mental health was very affected due to all the weight of the patient's problems. You tried it and weren't working. This work made you unhappy, so you give up and choose an easier path.

Choice 1 : Commit fully to art therapy.

Choice 2 : Turn away from it.

Unhappy

Keep pushing forward despite difficulties.

After one month of volunteering, you were much more confident. Your surroundings were very familiar to you, so it helped you. Sometimes, it was not easy because you weren't compensated for this volunteer and people didn't understand you. It was difficult to arrive in a new place without knowing someone, but you keep pushing forward despite difficulties and continue to give your best.

Choice 1 : Commit fully to art therapy.

Choice 2 : Turn away from it.

More confident

Give up and choose an easier path.

After one month, you lost interest in what you were doing. It was too difficult to work with a lot of people, so you give up and choose an easier path.

Choice 1 : Commit fully to art therapy.

Choice 2 : Turn away from it.

Lost interest

Commit fully to art therapy.

After 2 months of internship in France, you finally came back to your home. This experience confirms your feelings for being an art therapist, so you finish your master's degree.

Choice 1 : Finish.

Came back

Turn away from it.

You finally came back to your home and wonder what you will do. You decide to work until you know what you are going to do.

Choice 1 : Dead-end situation.

Work

Commit fully to art therapy.

After 2 months of volunteering, you finally finished it. This experience confirms your feelings for being an art therapist, so you finish your master's degree.

Choice 1 : Finish.

Feeling

Turn away from it.

You finally put an end to your volunteering because it was not for you. You very discouraged, so you decided to take a break from your study.

Choice 1 : Dead-end situation.

Discouraged

Finish.

You finally finished your master's degree at university. You became an art therapist with kids, and you were very happy about your dream job.

Choice 1 : Start over

Finish

Dead-end situation.

You ended up in a dead-end situation with only a study job waiting for the motivation to find other possibilities of a career.

Choice 1 : Start over

Dead-end situation