59-05-032 Proceeding

264 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress emotional and social impairments. Although the country is known as under the long brutal regime, the standardized formal interviews assessing anxiety, depression and post traumatic stress (by CETA – Common Element Treatment Approach - counseling 4 conducted by John Hopkins University trained local AAPP – Assistance Association to Political Prisoners- counselors in 2013 and ATIP – Assessment Tool Implementation Project by John Hopkins university, public health research, 2014) 5 on local participants of clinic attendants have revealed that some interviewed clients felt painful inconvenience, discomfort , and gave negative reaction and stayed away from getting back to those formal interviews and assessments. This local clinic population shows to find the meaningful, comprehensive and painless approaches to assess or solve the mental health problems.Meanwhile the clinic’s long years friendshipwith local and international artists, curators, their works and finding their today pathway where they work beyond the high art exhibition, museum and theatres and become the street side and public to communicate persons or people have brought the idea to bring the arts as meaningful therapy for people in needs of mental and behavioral health. In 2012, the clinic’s friendship with MASC 6 brought the exchange of learning in working with arts in communities. Those continuous learnings have become innovative for the arts in clinic work; artistic counseling, the art in process, narrative storytelling, performance, plays, therapeutic writing program, collage, TV and camera works, music. Those expressive art therapy works dispense the cultures and facilitate the art – making for insight, and skills to create abilities. This art is the mission to cultivate mindfulness, compassion to self and others, conflict resolving and expand healing through painless methods. This combined practice of arts in clinic treatment facilities works with the various patients including children to olds suffering from psychosis with severe behavioral problems, bipolar disorders, anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress, emotional and behavioral problems and victims of exclusion. Using these arts therapies workwith the patients; individuals and group, to help communicate over the course of treatment. Those mind and body art initiatives externalize and process the traumatic events as well as improve and restore the neurological and physical functions. The clients have reported that art therapy has helped them relax during the course and given them a way to regulate their emotions, explore their identities, provided an opportunity to memorize significant people, events, and social engagement. Those arts also advocate the families benefited with safety, hope and happiness from their mentally ill loved one’s outcome of well-being and functioning capacity in different range. The certain disciplines include the psychiatric and general health assessment, consultation, treatment with or without medications, psychotherapies, and family services in integrated mental health and general health care services. The brief assessment includes the case history detecting client’s background and other factors about gender, age, work, general health status, family mental health history, family and social relationship, drug and alcohol history, life difficulties, goals and coping skills. The psychiatric symptoms and diagnosis is reached through screening diagnostic criteria and the problems or symptoms description include physical, emotional or sensory symptoms and thoughts, feeling and perceptions related to symptoms. The treatment plan is tailored or integrated to arts therapy and engage the art therapist. The assessments during