Effectiveness of Expressive Art Therapy Group to Reduce Stress Level in Mothers of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200515.101How to use a DOI?

Keywords

stress, mothers, neurodevelopmental disorders, expressive art therapy

Abstract

Children with neurodevelopmental disorders often need intense help or assistance in carrying out their daily activities. Children’s difficulties in communication, socialization, certain characteristics, and maladaptive behaviors become the frequent stressor factors. Consequently, mothers who are responsible to nurture children with neurological development disorders are prone to experience continuous stress, in their life. The continuous stress experienced by mothers lead to variety of negative emotions. Many studies emphasized on the importance of paying special attention to mothers’ stress. However, interventions concerning the stress experienced by the parents, especially mothers are still insufficient. This quasi-experimental research with one group pretest-postest design aims to prove the effectiveness of expressive art therapy group to reduce participants’ stress level. The participants in this study were six mothers, that have direct involvement in daily nurturance of children with neurodevelopmental disorder. Differences in stress levels were evaluated based on the pretest and postest scores, using the Perceived Stress Scale-10. The result of the statistical test proves that seven sessions of expressive art therapy group is effective to reduce the stress level of participants. Additionally, the intervention provides opportunities for participants to release their emotional tension, explore themselves, express their emotion, identify their challenges, find solutions and insights. In the end, participants are able to change their responses and reactions in a positive way and improve their interpersonal relationship.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Monica Sri Sunaringsih
AU  - Sri Tiatri
AU  - Soemiarti Patmonodewo
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/20
TI  - Effectiveness of Expressive Art Therapy Group to Reduce Stress Level in Mothers of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
BT  - Proceedings of the Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 606
EP  - 611
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200515.101
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200515.101
ID  - Sunaringsih2020
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