Drawing enhances verbalisation in children of drug-addicts

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 13:21 in Psychology & Sociology

Drawing helps children whose fathers are drug addicts to express their feelings, concludes a new study carried out at the School of Creative Arts Therapies at the University of Haifa. 'It is difficult to verbally describe a trauma, yet the body remembers it,' said Head of the school Prof. Rachel Lev-Wiesel, who carried out the study alongside Revital Liraz of the Hosen Centre in Beer Sheba...

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