Art therapy reaches sick children where injections and medication cannot
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The Fondation ART-THERAPIE promotes access to art therapy for as many newborns, children and adolescents as possible in Swiss hospitals, thereby improving their quality of life far beyond their hospital stay.
A serious illness or accident affects every aspect of a person’s being: physically, emotionally and psychologically. For young in-patients and their families, a stay at hospital is a particularly significant and often distressing event. In addition to the various medical interventions, there is the fear of the unknown, the pain, the distance from loved ones, and all of this in an aseptic, unfamiliar and changing environment. For parents, too, their child’s hospitalisation is synonymous with suffering: they feel powerless and often blame themselves.
In this stressful situation, art therapy provides a decisive counterbalance.
As a growing number of scientific studies show (WHO, 2019), these gentle, non-invasive therapies promote and accelerate the healing process and have a positive long-term effect on the health of young patients and their families. These therapies enable them to better understand what they are going through, manage their fears, reduce stress and gain confidence.
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The challenges we face
These therapies are gaining recognition. Unfortunately, Swiss hospitals are under severe cost pressure and are unable to fund therapies entirely from their own resources. In paediatrics in particular, the financial situation is particularly precarious.
Without the commitment of non-profit organisations such as the Fondation ART-THERAPIE, most hospitals would not be able to offer art therapy at all, or only to a limited extent.
Our objectives
Our projects
In 20245, the ART- THERAPIE Foundation will be supporting 14 art therapy projects for children in 12 partner hospitals throughout Switzerland – more information about our projects here.
Our impact
“Art therapy has become an essential part of multidisciplinary care for children suffering from chronic illnesses or who are currently experiencing severe difficulties. It addresses the child and family as subjects and creators of their current reality, and helps to advance therapeutic processes in close cooperation with the medical and care team. Creative therapies encourage contact and interaction. The defensive attitudes (editor’s note: of the patients) after the many stresses are abandoned without having to show themselves or open up explicitly”.
Dr. med. Christian Henkel, Leitender Arzt / Facharzt für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie sowie für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Schwerpunkt Psychosomatische u. Psychosoziale Medizin (SAPPM), Ostschweizer Kinderspital, St. Gallen
Our 2024 activities in figures
Since 2008
In many hospitals, the implementation of art therapy programmes is still often dependent on the support of non-profit organisations such as the Fondation ART-THERAPY.
We look forward to seeing you!
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Fondation ART-THERAPIE
Rue de Beaumont 11
CH-1206 Genève
+41 78 838 24 26
info(a)arttherapie.org
Postfinance : 12-731551-9 IBAN : CH29 0900 0000 1273 1551 9
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Compte: 0251-1489262-11
IBAN: CH19 0483 5148 9262 1100 0
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