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Art therapy provides a safe way for people to ‘talk’ about fears, trauma, abuse, and secrets nonverbally, as in the poem Dark Secrets. Art making and therapeutic play is a type of nonverbal communication for children and adults who can’t find the words in therapy. It is how children naturally explore, make sense of, and live in the world.
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Wallace, K.O. (2015). Art Therapy and Grief. In: There is No Need to Talk about This. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 106. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-001-7_7
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