Affective Dimension on People with Severe Mental Disorder trough artistic training. Artherapy: "Proyecto E-Motion"

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Álvaro Moraleda-Ruano
Ana Carolina Martínez-Cabezón

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This article tries to position the state of the issue of emotions in the Art’s gap, both in creation and in reproduction of artistic works, focused specifically on working with people with severe mental disorder. Starting from the pedagogical current of artherapy and the concept of emotion as an essential factor in this group, the E-motion Project starts, whose main objective is the study of the effects of art in people with severe mental disorder. Specifically, the participants of the experimental group who joined in the study showed statistically significant differences in the areas of social functioning and leisure and free time, and tendentially in self-esteem, compared to the control group.

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Affective Dimension on People with Severe Mental Disorder trough artistic training. Artherapy: "Proyecto E-Motion". (2019). Edupsykhé. Revista De Psicología Y Educación, 16(1), 66-85. https://doi.org/10.57087/edupsykhe.v16i1.4084