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Today I read a book that let me check my parenting perspective from a different angle: The Power of Parenting Through Art. It is the latest book by Professor Sun-hyun Kim, Korea's leading authority on art therapy and an expert in trauma psychology treatment. The table of contents is organized clearly, so you can first find a subtitle that catches your interest. But I found it stayed with me more firmly when I skimmed it once and then looked more closely. Drawing has no special rules, so
Book description: “Parenting through art,” introduced in this book, is a therapeutic tool for care and growth that is based on child psychology theory, integrates examples of drawings from art therapy, and can be applied to real parenting. Like bibliotherapy or music therapy used in psychotherapy, parenting through art can be called art therapy. It means looking at activities a caregiver and child have drawn or made, talking together, and through that conversation reading and understanding the
I am raising a ten-month-old. My baby can hardly express anything through drawing yet, but I read this book early so I can recognize things through my child's drawings later. Pictures seem able to tell us so much; perhaps that is their power. I think it is wonderful that drawing can be combined with parenting as a way to understand a child who grows day by day and learn to communicate with them. I studied social welfare and encountered other areas, but I had been interested in art therapy since
I loved the line, “A picture is a map of the heart a child carries within.” While working with children, especially teaching young children, I spent a lot of time drawing with them. I knew children's drawings can contain many thoughts and feelings. Children express hidden emotions on paper or through color, which is why art is used in psychotherapy. I, too, tried to understand children's minds through art. While raising my own child, I kept introducing picture books and focused on the pictures,
This is not a book you need to read only to learn a special way to care for a child's emotions through drawing. It also gives you a chance to think about the distinct roles of words, writing, and pictures, and how pictures alone can serve as an emotional channel of communication. The author says that even if you cannot grasp the emotional logic behind professionally interpreted drawings, you are already practicing art-based parenting if you and your child share a space, draw together, look at
I once studied for a school certificate in art psychology counseling. That was ten years ago. I could use what I learned with friends, but we drifted apart and my knowledge faded. Once I saw a TV program where someone interpreted the mind of a child with behavioral problems from a drawing. The idea that children who cannot yet express themselves well in words can communicate through pictures appealed to me. I was glad to see this new book by Professor Kim Sun-hyun, Korea's leading art therapy
How can you strengthen a child's heart through drawing? I had heard of drawing therapy and art therapy, but this was my first time encountering the term “parenting through art.” I knew art play, including drawing, was good for infants and children, but could it really help children grow up emotionally healthy and resilient? A drawing-based parenting method from a leading art therapy expert. The author previously published volumes one and two of The Power of Art and has an impressive background:
Review: The Power of Parenting Through Art. “The ultimate goal of parenting through art is to build a strong, sturdy roof over our child (p. 45).” I had become curious about art psychology after seeing celebrities' children undergo assessments of their psychological states through art on TV a few times. So when a related book, The Power of Parenting Through Art, was published, I read it. Written by Korea's leading art therapy authority and a trauma psychology treatment expert, the book is
Children grow with time. Whether or not I pay attention to parenting, they grow. But children raised with their parents' thoughtful attention are different in some emotional way. That is why, amid the chaos of raising children, I read parenting books now and then to check my own approach. My 38-month-old son and 25-month-old daughter are in the middle of a drawing phase. Since my son is a year older, he can draw small circles and label things, saying “This is a shark” or “This is Mom.” Since
A new book has come out by Professor Kim Sun-hyun, Korea's leading authority on art therapy and a trauma psychotherapy expert. I had heard of “picture-book parenting,” but “art-based parenting” was unfamiliar. It is not simply another name for art therapy; it is a parenting book that teaches you to talk with your child through pictures, which can express feelings and circumstances better than words. The goal of parenting is to help children grow well: become independent, recognize and express
Kim Seon-hyeon: The Power of Art Parenting
The latest parenting book by Professor Sun-hyun Kim, Korea's leading authority on art therapy and an expert in child psychology theory and trauma treatment. Through drawing, a child connects body and mind, recognizes feelings, and expresses them on paper. In other words, children say everything through pictures. Who is the person the child drew? What do the colors they mainly used mean? What do unusually rough lines or strong strokes tell us? Drawing happily with a child, asking questions and talking about the picture to understand them, and getting to know and comforting their heart more deeply through their drawings: this is “parenting through art.” In her new book The Power of Parenting Through Art, Professor Kim clearly organizes everything about the approach, including its ultimate purpose, the theory and practice it requires, and what parents should know beforehand. In particular, through more than 50 children's drawings organized by case, she explains in detail how to view and help heal the concerns, emotions, and behavioral problems that arise in real parenting. Drawing may look like simple play, but it actually requires a broad range of abilities. Many conflicting elements—impulse and control, fantasy and reality, the unconscious and conscious, aggression and love—must be integrated internally. Art activities help bring these elements together and develop the ability to channel them creatively. Parenting through art actively uses these positive effects of art activities.
Korean title: 그림육아의 힘
Korean author: 김선현
Korean publisher: 쌤앤파커스
ISBN-13: 9791165349790
Reviews
Today I read a book that let me check my parenting perspective from a different angle: The Power of Parenting Through Art. It is the latest book by Professor Sun-hyun Kim, Korea's leading authority on art therapy and an expert in trauma psychology treatment. The table of contents is organized clearly, so you can first find a subtitle that catches your interest. But I found it stayed with me more firmly when I skimmed it once and then looked more closely. Drawing has no special rules, so
Book description: “Parenting through art,” introduced in this book, is a therapeutic tool for care and growth that is based on child psychology theory, integrates examples of drawings from art therapy, and can be applied to real parenting. Like bibliotherapy or music therapy used in psychotherapy, parenting through art can be called art therapy. It means looking at activities a caregiver and child have drawn or made, talking together, and through that conversation reading and understanding the
I am raising a ten-month-old. My baby can hardly express anything through drawing yet, but I read this book early so I can recognize things through my child's drawings later. Pictures seem able to tell us so much; perhaps that is their power. I think it is wonderful that drawing can be combined with parenting as a way to understand a child who grows day by day and learn to communicate with them. I studied social welfare and encountered other areas, but I had been interested in art therapy since
I loved the line, “A picture is a map of the heart a child carries within.” While working with children, especially teaching young children, I spent a lot of time drawing with them. I knew children's drawings can contain many thoughts and feelings. Children express hidden emotions on paper or through color, which is why art is used in psychotherapy. I, too, tried to understand children's minds through art. While raising my own child, I kept introducing picture books and focused on the pictures,
This is not a book you need to read only to learn a special way to care for a child's emotions through drawing. It also gives you a chance to think about the distinct roles of words, writing, and pictures, and how pictures alone can serve as an emotional channel of communication. The author says that even if you cannot grasp the emotional logic behind professionally interpreted drawings, you are already practicing art-based parenting if you and your child share a space, draw together, look at
I once studied for a school certificate in art psychology counseling. That was ten years ago. I could use what I learned with friends, but we drifted apart and my knowledge faded. Once I saw a TV program where someone interpreted the mind of a child with behavioral problems from a drawing. The idea that children who cannot yet express themselves well in words can communicate through pictures appealed to me. I was glad to see this new book by Professor Kim Sun-hyun, Korea's leading art therapy
How can you strengthen a child's heart through drawing? I had heard of drawing therapy and art therapy, but this was my first time encountering the term “parenting through art.” I knew art play, including drawing, was good for infants and children, but could it really help children grow up emotionally healthy and resilient? A drawing-based parenting method from a leading art therapy expert. The author previously published volumes one and two of The Power of Art and has an impressive background:
Review: The Power of Parenting Through Art. “The ultimate goal of parenting through art is to build a strong, sturdy roof over our child (p. 45).” I had become curious about art psychology after seeing celebrities' children undergo assessments of their psychological states through art on TV a few times. So when a related book, The Power of Parenting Through Art, was published, I read it. Written by Korea's leading art therapy authority and a trauma psychology treatment expert, the book is
Children grow with time. Whether or not I pay attention to parenting, they grow. But children raised with their parents' thoughtful attention are different in some emotional way. That is why, amid the chaos of raising children, I read parenting books now and then to check my own approach. My 38-month-old son and 25-month-old daughter are in the middle of a drawing phase. Since my son is a year older, he can draw small circles and label things, saying “This is a shark” or “This is Mom.” Since
A new book has come out by Professor Kim Sun-hyun, Korea's leading authority on art therapy and a trauma psychotherapy expert. I had heard of “picture-book parenting,” but “art-based parenting” was unfamiliar. It is not simply another name for art therapy; it is a parenting book that teaches you to talk with your child through pictures, which can express feelings and circumstances better than words. The goal of parenting is to help children grow well: become independent, recognize and express
