The arts to the rescue : improving adult sensitivities of children's communications of worries and solutions / Sandra Harms-Nicolson.
Publication details: [Auckland, N.Z. : Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design], ©2013.Description: 71 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Abstract: This participatory quantitative study was designed in response to the findings of a previous New Zealand study by Pienaar (2010), which revealed adults were perceived by school children as unaware of their stresses and when they needed help. Further, it was a response to a call for research for early intervention strategies by the Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister (Gluckman, 2011) to prevent and reduce the rate of psychological morbidity among adolescents. Four children aged between seven to nine years of age participated in a weekly arts therapy group at a high decile suburban primary school. Parents and teachers the these children participated in semi-structured interviews focusing on adult perceptions of children's expressions of their worries and solutions. The phenomenological analysis of the children's expressions and a thematic analysis of the adult interviews resulted in pertinent themes about what children's worries and solutions are, and how they express them from child and adult perspectives.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library Dissertations | Dissertations | DISS 13-06 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not For Loan | 0010265 |
"In partial fulfilment of the Master of Arts in Arts Therapy, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design."
Keywords: Children's worries, arts-based research, participatory research, children's communication, children's rights, child-adult understanding, art therapy with children
Includes bibliographical references.
This participatory quantitative study was designed in response to the findings of a previous New Zealand study by Pienaar (2010), which revealed adults were perceived by school children as unaware of their stresses and when they needed help. Further, it was a response to a call for research for early intervention strategies by the Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister (Gluckman, 2011) to prevent and reduce the rate of psychological morbidity among adolescents. Four children aged between seven to nine years of age participated in a weekly arts therapy group at a high decile suburban primary school. Parents and teachers the these children participated in semi-structured interviews focusing on adult perceptions of children's expressions of their worries and solutions. The phenomenological analysis of the children's expressions and a thematic analysis of the adult interviews resulted in pertinent themes about what children's worries and solutions are, and how they express them from child and adult perspectives.