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  • Art therapy and self-image: A 5-year follow-up art therapy RCT study of women diagnosed with breast cancer

  • Karin Egberg Thyme, Björn Tavelin, Inger Öster, Jack Lindh, Britt Wiberg
  • Journal:
    Palliative & Supportive Care / Volume 20 / Issue 4 / August 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 September 2021, pp. 482-490
  • Objective

    This follow-up study on perceived self-image and psychophysical distress/psychic symptoms was based on a ranomized contolled study of art therapy on women with breast cancer.

    Method

    The aim was to examine the long-term effects of time-limited art therapy using the instruments of Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) and Symptom Check List-90 (SCL-90).

    Results

    Three attachment clusters of the SASB showed significant changes post therapy: Autonomous self (cluster 1), Accepting self (cluster 2), and Loving self (cluster 3). Clusters 2 and 3 continued to change in favor of the intervention group at the 5-year follow-up. There were no significant differences in the SCL-90 results between the intervention group and the control group in the follow-up study.

    Significance of results

    The art therapy intervention was both therapeutic and psycho-educative. The conclusion of this study is that approaching emotions through time-limited art therapy seems to have a long-lasting effect on the attachment behavioral system shown in the SASB model post intervention, and this effect remained 5 years later.