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Review
. 2022 Dec 15:13:1002504.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1002504. eCollection 2022.

The research focus and development trend of art therapy in Chinese education since the 21st century

Yingying Cui  1 , Fenping Wang  2
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The research focus and development trend of art therapy in Chinese education since the 21st century

Yingying Cui et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Since the 21st century, art therapy has made great progress and development in China's education. To find out the relationship between art therapy and special children, hundreds of related literatures were analyzed using co-word analysis software, which shows that art therapy is increasingly important in special children and their education. Expressive art therapy has a good development prospect in college students' mental health education and group counseling. The connotation of group painting therapy is constantly enriched. The theme research of mandala painting therapy is closely related, and painting art therapy focuses on the psychological counseling research of different groups, but the two are still in the marginal position in the whole research, and have not been paid attention to. Therefore, in the future research, firstly, we should continue to strengthen the research of art therapy and expressive art therapy in special education and individual mental health education; second, further broaden the depth and breadth of group painting therapy; third, strengthen the study of mandala painting therapy and painting art therapy.

Keywords: art therapy; group painting therapy; health education; mandala painting therapy; special education.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Number of publications on art therapy from 2015 to 2021.
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Figure 2
Cluster diagram of high–frequency keywords in art therapy research field.
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Figure 3
Knowledge map of hotspots in art therapy research.
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