Children Having Children: Art Therapy in a Community-Based Early Adolescent Pregnancy Program.

Stiles, Gloria J.; Mermer-Welly, Mary Jo

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ERIC Number: EJ583277

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Children Having Children: Art Therapy in a Community-Based Early Adolescent Pregnancy Program.

Stiles, Gloria J.; Mermer-Welly, Mary Jo

Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, v15 n3 p165-76 1998

Discusses the forces compelling young adolescent females toward early parenthood, a community-based art therapy/pregnancy program for elementary and junior high school girls, the use of interactive museum gallery visits to enhance art-therapy treatment goals, and case vignettes that illustrate issues raised for the adolescent and art therapist working in this setting. (Author/MKA)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Art Therapy, Case Studies, Early Parenthood, Elementary Education, Family Counseling, Females, Group Therapy, Identification, Junior High Schools, Museums, Pregnancy, Race, Socioeconomic Status, Student Development, Youth Programs

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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