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Practical Note Book
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Case Studies
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By
Aristha BalaFrom
At North Kolkata: 5, Bidhan Saran; Flat No. 3/D; Kolkata: 700006, Near Vidyasagar College and opposite Thanthania Kali Temple; 9051815449; 09433516243At South Kolkata: (1)74, R.K.Ghoshal Road, Kolkata: 700042, Near Chittaranjan Boys’s School;(2)513B, Block-M, New Alipore, Kolkata: 53, www.calcuttayelloepages.com/adver/110802Mobile: 9051815449; 09433516243; Mail: [email protected]. www.mind-
eye.in
In my words:It’s a unique sensation to become an Art Therapist after securing Post Graduate Diploma in Psychological Counselling and Behaviour Management-Art Therapy can defined as an alternative perspective in Psychotherapy.
In the entire process art is an essential medium to help people to come out from emotional trauma: here no expertise is in demand; but an interest is essential to be there in counselee which in most cases have been found.
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I mentioned only four case studies; finding them to enjoy therapeutic phase of art I was delighted as I also want to explore art as an alternative perspective in
psychotherapy; Mind’s eye helps me to explore CBT with the combination of art therapy.
We begin the process with a positive approach of life: sweet memories of past, feelings associated with the positive words as only an oriented mind can concentrate , so we took the help of pattern drawing: as the pattern grows finned if the counselee gets ready to pay heed with wholeheartedly to the words of psychotherapist.
Here I mention only 4-type of case: they are different in psychological points of view; I like to mention in brief the genesis of each case study.
Niloy is a special child at birth; he has heart problem, a plus II passed out from an Open Education Board he has an intention to explore himself professionally: he has limited brain capacity. I want to explore his interest and find him as a foodie and fun loving boy. He is in favour of watching Food Channel and likes English to write. He has been concentrated first before being involved in his serious work practices: colourful pattern helps him to be happy and concentrated. As he likes food we help him to learn how to serve food on the dinner table after cooking; specially I was interested to help him to learn ‘Granishing’ sides of food item. He himself learnt it as I instructed him: he needs to repeat the same task for developing skill and he has no problem to repeat the same task and he develops a skill to do the job finally on his own without the help of instructors.( a division of Mind’s Eye ‘s Skill Development Project for Special Children)
Mrs. Shulka Dutta came to us being irritated and bit depressed –she has nothing to do excepting homemaking. She prefers doing something interesting and brain teasing.
Assessing her I find her to be agreeable with children, positive soul and skill in art work making and good sense in colour choice: so we first help her to come out
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from her irritation and other emotional crisis by CBT and Art Therapy: she likes painting, craft making and paper collage. Within a short period she develops herself in a good emotional shape. Now we train her to be one of our ART & CRAFT Trainers. She performs very well day by day. This is one of Mind’s Eye’s Services named Personal Wellness Approach.
Under Senior Citizen care we took the help of Art Therapy for Mr Ashim Chakraborty (70 years Old) and Ava Rani Chowdhury(80 yrs old). Mr Ashim Charaborty is basically an introvert people with a competitive mindset and Mrs Ava Rani Chowdhury is an extrovert people but extreme anxiety prone.
Mr Ashim Chakraborty needs to be assertive with positive words association and feelings: this helps him to be jovial and happy, pattern drawing helps him to stay oriented: he loves to deliver lecture on his own choice; it keeps him happy as he loves doing so and can speak well. Mr Ashim Chraborty loves to meet new people as he becomes bored seeing same person being at home.
Mrs Ava has problem to be at home all the time: it brings a depression; because of that she loves to explore people around and likes to dress well with different cooler and shades. She wants to express which we offered her.
Above four studies is a continuing process; the clients are happy to be with us continuously.
Last, not the least I must be thankful to Mind’s Eye to train me in such a way: in each case I met the clients, counsel them with a brush in my hand, before that I have no idea of the process; I find it most successful to keep a person evergreen by brush, canvas and positive memories.
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Case study:----------------
1.NAME--Niloy Gupta2. ADDRESS--1/33,M.M GHOSH ROAD,KOLKATA--70000743. PHONE NO—033- 250-48714. AGE--335. SEX--M 6. RELIGION --HINDU7. MOTHER TONGUE---BENGALI8. NO OF FAMILY MEMBERS—4 (he is the elder son)9. PURPOSE OF VISIT---COUNSELLING10. CHIEF /PRESENTING COMPLAINS---
i. NILOY has problem in heart from childhood, so his learning adaptability is slow
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ii. He lacks development milestoneiii. He passed class X from general school iv. He passed XII from Rabindra Mukta Vidhyalaya with 40-45%v. Talks uselessly and cannot communicate properly, repeated
words; likes to talk more than to listen, has eagerness to learn but cannot memorize sequentially; bit anger prone
vi. IQ—Borderline (measured)
11. SYMPTOMSa. Repeated wordsb. Easy gripping c. No attention to read d. lack writing skill -very slowe. No serious
vocational skill-not even any self care motivation
12. PURPOSE OF
VISIT:a. To be competent in
daily life careb. Self care and
development of vocational skill so that he could do his own work by himself
c. Development of Skill to stay independently
13. PROCESS OF COUNSELLING:Our process of counseling is primarily to develop an initiative to do some work for him and also for living a healthy lifestyle through some activity which is utterly safe and secure
i) Story telling( Reading, Writing, Vocabulary)ii) Art Therapy : helps to lead a life with full of enthusiasm iii) Skill development for motor movementiv) Pattern drawing for enhancing concentrationv) Change of English Writing strokes for increasing alternative
thought processvi) Vocational skill development which is appropriate to his
capability
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Vocational Skill Development:Salad item preparation:
Like salad product (cucumber ,tomato, onion, green leafs) Garnishing Tea-Table decoration
Work Process: DAY 1---14 /09/15--Niloy came with his father; he was talking loudly
and repeated almost each word while he was speaking. DAY 2---04/10/15-Niloy tries to talk slowly and started food
garnishing. DAY3--29/10/15--NILOY told a story in a haphazard way and tries to
write that he usually did not like to follow after completing his studies DAY 4--6/11/15--Niloy tried to talk uniformly DAY 5--19/11/15 --Niloy learned counting method for increase memory
and he learned how to manage garnishing plate. On this day Niloy was very happy as he finished his work properly.
Every day Niloy before starting his work for enhancing his concentration practises some pattern drawing which he enjoyed a lot as it is absolutely a colourful journey.Art Therapy helps to stay in happy mood as he previously felt that he was dominated by his close relatives, but our process of Art Therapy keeps him smiling and wholehearted all the day.
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Case Study-21.NAME—Mrs Sukla Datta
2. ADDRESS: 103, Kamalapur east, Dumdum, Kolkata--700028
3. PHONE: 8017941145
4. E-MAIL:
sukla [email protected]
5. AGE: 59 yrs+
6. SEX : Female ,
7. Religion: Hindu
8. Mother Tongue Bengali
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9. Language known--English, Hindi
10. No. of Family members:Four
11. Purpose of visit--To remain active and
understand people’s emotion as she has problem in staying with her husband who is undergoes schizophrenia medication.
12. CHIEF/PRESENTING COMPLAINS
I. She was not happy with her present lifestyle as there is occasional communication gap between her and her husband who is controlled schizophrenic.
II. She was mentally very sad being alone in her daily life as her only son and daughter-in-law both are in overseas in recent time.
III. She loves involvement, and being affectionate and lovable person staying alone whole the day is really a punishment for her
IV. She is madly in search of attachment which will give her pleasure of living
13. PURPOSE OF VISIT: To be competent in daily life care Development of skill to stay independently
14. PROCESS OF COUNSELLING:Our process of counseling is primarily to develop an initiative to do some work for her and also for living a healthy lifestyle through some activity.
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a. Pattern drawing for enhancing concentrationb. Art therapy: to help to lead a life with full passionc. Change of English writing strokes( Graphoterapy) for increasing
i. Agreeablenessii. Alternative way of approach andiii. Staying
positive with a motivation
d. Moreover, our aim is to train her to train others similarly who has been suffering from same loneliness because of empty nest syndrome: A Self Help Group
15. Vocational skill development:
Art Therapy including Craft Making, Collage Art and Utility as well as Fancy goods which can beautify the environment by their shapes/colour and innovation.
Training for helping others how to overcome the emotional crisis because of old age and empty nest feelings: It is a Creative Training on how to stay positive in the present environment.
16. Work process:i. DAY-1--27 10 2015—Mrs Sukla came with her son. Her son said
that their home atmosphere is not suitable for his mother because most of time her mother remains mentally disturb for his father behaviour. For this reason Mrs.
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Sukla"s son wanted to involve her in any activity whichever she likes for her happiness.
ii. DAY-2--3RD November--We start our process by art therapy after assessing her by Picture Analysis and Draw a Human Figure. From the assessment we came to know that she
iii. DAY-3--10th November--Mrs Sukla enjoying collage art, along with this we help her to stay positive and hopeful by practising some lessons that we have given her to work out on it.
iv. DAY-4--17TH NOVEMBER--She is very much interested in craft making, and collage art. She is felling very good.
Every day Mrs Sukla is starting her Pattern drawing for enhancing her concentration which she enjoyed a lot as it is absolutely a colourful journey. Art therapy helps her to stay in happy mood as she previously felt that she was dominated by her close relatives, but our process of art therapy keeps her smiling and enthusiastic the day. Now she started to train similar others at our centre and sometimes at the clients’ home under the guidance of our team mates : she and other enjoys entire process: Mrs Sukla now becomes our team mate and does her responsibilities efficiently as she herself gets a path to lead a life of fulfillment with brushes, colours and optimistic minds.
Case Study: 3
1.NAME; Ashim Chakrabarty 2. ADDRESS: 173, Ashokgarh, KOLKATA 108 3. PHONE: 033 2577-53/ 9711026096
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4. Age-71 5. sex –M6. Religion--Hindu7. Mother Tongue--Bengali8. Purpose of visit--Counselling 9. Chief /presenting
complains( informant):
I. He is basically an introvert person.
II. He likes to live within himself.
III. Every time he said that he felt weak and he could not enjoy time as others.
IV. Sometimes he came out from his home without saying anything inmates
V. He has death fearVI. Not at all positive soul: he encourages us to us to find out the
cause of his inability to laugh
10. SYMPTOMS (spotted by counselors) on the first day of visiting him
I. Repeated words/story/discomfortII. Missing
past which he cannot overcome or felt defeated
III. Easy gripping
IV. Develops slow interest: at once fearful in adapting
V. Writing skill very slowVI. No serious vocational skill not even any self care motivation
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VII. Prefers watching instead of active participation
11. PURPOSE OF VISIT:
A. To be competent in daily life/self care
B. Development of vocational skill in the present context so that he can enjoy his life
C. Development of skill to live a positive life approach: his redundant thought should have assertive bent
D. To motivate him to stay with a bright colour sensation
12. PROCESS OF COUNSELLING:
Our process of counselling is primarily to develop an initiative to do some work for him and also for living a healthy lifestyle through some activity as per his comfort level and adaptability.
i. Conversation using positive words and sentences: helping him to pronounce with a feeling as the words offered
ii. Sentence completion with a happy ending iii. Change of strokes of writing :connection related ( a
psychological tool helps a person to lead a positive living)iv. Use of positive/Vibrant colour v. Helps him to visualize what we are going to discussvi. Enhance the skill of creativity using line drawing and brushes
of different colour vii. Helping to strengthen grip and using appropriate prop
according to his interest
13. VOCATIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND OUR OBSERVATION:
a. Still positive: as he enjoys the activities and took participation
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b. Loves to respond: he is responding; but one thing has been noticed that during the process he becomes competitive and tries to respond always better than the previous day approach; has restriction to accept defeat/incompetence; may be this is the reasons of his withdrawal behaviour. On the next visit he has tendency to repeat the same activity in a better way and for this he tries to prepare himself being engaged.
i. This may develop a trend to live better than before ii. He may stay with an occupation of positive wordsiii. In addition to this there is also a chance to generate an
anxiety of performance: which as counselors we do not want to give him at this age: our motto is to help him to enjoy the rest of days happily with a jovial mood.
c. In his personality some sorts of negativity is there: in basic nature he is depressive; but being an agreeable person he cannot cut himself off from the effect of others whom he dislikes mostly.
d. His memory is excellent: he can memorize vividly his past life; it seems that he wants to get a second chance to be successful from his previous failure
e. Accept brain teasing happily and can respond flawlessly
f. He enjoys our colourful activities: prefers to describe to make it a form on the paper by sketches and drawing: obviously everything is related to sweet memories of past.
g. On the whole he is enjoying the hours with us.
14. APPLICATION OF OTHER THEARPY a. Feeling Word game
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b. Colour your present life: from story telling sessionc. Art Therapyd. Sentence making with a positive ende. Origamif. Etc.
Remarks:We visited him several time and will visit again as per our arrangement; in every visit he shows positive approach; accepting us he has no problem, but following the instruction is troublesome in absence of us: sometimes we prefer meeting him twice a week just to encourage him. Slow to accept and bit rigid in changing his usual lifestyle: so it will take time.
Until and unless he himself feels that life is for enjoyment without hurting and discomforting others; enjoyment is accepted if its approach is not interfering others’ existence in the same planet.
A slow but steady change has been observed in his behavior: this is obviously an encouraging inspection.
Case Study: 4
1.1.NAME: Ava Rani Chowdhury 2. ADDRESS: 2, Sabujayan Abason; Ramchandrapur; Kolkata 3. PHONE: 033 2438930/ 98748490274. Age-80 5. sex –F6. Religion--Hindu7. Mother Tongue—Hindi/Bengali as she was brought up in Bihar8. Purpose of visit—Geriatric care, emotional only9. Position of her among the siblings: Eldest of siblings10. Chief /presenting complains( informant)/information of client
lifestyle:11. Depression
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i. She is retired from central govt. job.Her husband is 86 years old and in very fragile condition.She has returned from hospital and is now at home. She was treated for the following:Diabetic phycopathy treatment.Doctors said that health wise she is ok and is suffering from acute depression and identity crisis and recommended that if she stays at home among the family members she will be improving.
12. Demand from her family: In a nut shell – her family members need a Councellor
who can visit her at home and just chat with her and make her feel good about life . They need that type of a person who can take ownership of getting the lady back into the main stream if possible.She had been working women all her life.
13. How is she (spotted by counselors) - on the first day of visiting her
VIII. Loves socializationIX. With a smiling face talked
with us
X. Anxiety of performance: fearful to involve in job( activities ) which is offered her because of her doubt not to perform as per level
XI. Active type: denial of accepting passive moment to pass onXII. Guilt feeling is there in her mind for the discomfort she has been
given other family membersXIII. Likes colour, storytelling session, cooking: even she enjoys to talk
about it alsoXIV. Can sing well XV. On the whole being extrovert she likes to be pampered by others in
a creative way
14. PURPOSE OF VISIT:
E. To keep her free of guilt feelings : life skill trainingF. To establish a concept of developing an art form without being perfectG. To stay with a positive thought/feeling only by imaginationH. Storytelling session of past eventful but happy memoriesI. Skill training being passively active to enjoy the present days with the
help of others around
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J. Enhance her imagination only by strokes on the paperK. Develop a THIDR EYE concept in her with the help of her husbandL. Many more as per demand
15. PROCESS OF COUNSELLING:
Our process of counselling is primarily to develop an initiative to keep her involved creatively without a great deal of physical movement and also for living a healthy lifestyle through some activity as per his comfort level and adaptability.
viii. Conversation using positive words and sentences: helping her to pronounce with a feeling as the words offered
ix. Sentence completion with a happy ending: storytelling
x. Change of strokes of
writing :connection related ( a psychological tool to help a person to lead a positive living)
xi. Use of positive/Vibrant colour xii. Help her to visualize what we are going to discuss
xiii. Enhance the skill of creativity using line drawing and brushes of different colours
xiv. Change of lines to visualize the drawn substances from different corner in different ways.
APPLICATION OF OTHER THEARPIES g. Feeling Word game
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h. Colour your present life: from storytelling session
i. Art Therapyj. Sentence making with a
positive endk. Origamil. Etc.
Remarks:
She likes to cherish her past sweet memories with the counselor; the main topic of her is food related and she loves to welcome guest with a food plate, food preparation.She likes gardening and she has a small lawn in front of her residence. She likes to plant rose plantation in her small garden: we have also seen roses of different colour: red, yellow, pink and yellow rose plants: she loves talking about her garden, likes to walk and sit just to enjoy the garden of different colour roses.Now all the time it’s not possible for her to be there as she develops some sorts of restriction in movement: we help her to draw roses, flowers and other colourful objects using canvas and drawing book. The process needs to continue for several days to bring a positive result.
Each and every person described enjoy the process of ART THERAPY and we are also hopeful.
