12 art therapies for ADHD

Are you worried that your child seems a little different from the others? Don't worry. Our art therapy experts can help. Are you easily irritated, angry, or aggressive? Are you anxious, timid, and unconfident? Maybe your learning ability is falling behind because you're never able to focus? Are you overly impulsive or overreactive? Is it difficult for you to have a relationship with your peers? Or maybe you find it difficult to adapt to preschool or school? Arttei Art Therapy Program for children with ADHD can be effective in the following ways: ① Helps greatly in remedying the isolation they may have experienced from the outside world due to their maladjustment; helps to recover relationships and maladjustments related to others as it develops the child a skill to express something with their own hands through art therapy. ② Can allow the child to focus and correct their excessive behaviors through art therapy. ③ Plays the role of resolving inner frustrations to develop self-control for their impulsiveness. ④ Solidifies the concepts of events and objects; allows the cerebrum to develop organized and systemized awareness. ⑤ Develops the child's cognitive ability and increases their creativity in the process of being able to realistically express what they have experienced on their own as they experience life or nature. Arttei, created by an art therapy expert, has the following benefits. A. You can express yourself as you are. Art is a visual language that transforms the unconscious into consciousness, so the inner mind can be naturally expressed. You can express yourself freely regardless of your language ability. It helps you reduce fear or defensiveness. B. Anyone can have fun with it. Anyone can do it easily, regardless of their artistic talent or age. Infants and toddlers who can't speak well, children with disabilities, and seniors with dementia, they can all do it. You can feel joy and happiness through the creative activity of art. C. Art therapy can purify your troubling and painful emotions. You can feel the emotional purification (catharsis) that you get from expressing your inner emotions to others in an art form. D. You can see the process of change by looking at the artworks that come out of the process of art therapy. Artworks have specific results that can be preserved over time. Through these, we can look at the healing process, look back on the past, and find hope, too. E. Arttei Art Therapy is conducted through smart devices. Arttei is a smart life program that allows children to receive art therapy services, by utilizing smart content for art therapy through various smart devices that they may have at home, without having to visit institutions like hospitals. F. It can be used at home or in art therapy institutions. We provide a guide for all art therapy contents included in the Arttei app, which can be utilized without using a smart pad. It presents goals and expected effects for each art therapy program, as well as psychological theories and evidence for some contents. In addition, it contains detailed explanations of the preparation and the sequence of activities utilizing various real-life tools like paper and colored pencils. [About Professor Sun-Hyun Kim] Arttei Art Therapy Program Planning and Supervision [Current] Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine Professor Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine Director, Digital Therapy Clinical Center First President, Graduate School of Art Therapy, CHA University of Medical Sciences President of Korean Academy of Clinical Art Therapy(www. kacat. co. kr) President of Korean Trauma Association Head of Dongseo Art Therapy Research Center President of BESETO, Head of Korea Clinical Art Therapy Association Head Director of Korean Academy of Clinical Art Therapy Vice-President of Korea Arts Therapy Professor’s Association Member of Gyeonggi-do Center for Dementia