59-05-032 Proceeding

265 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress the course of treatment is done to know the findings and outcome s of the services. The treatment team documents the patient progress as part of patient’s medical record. Creative art therapies activities at the clinic will be evaluated for long term implementation and replication at the future. The clinic art therapist 7 is a local author of art articles and a book about Myanmar Contemporary Art 8 (Research work) a novelist and scriptwriter of ‘the monk’; premier film of Karlovy Vary film festival 9 and also the medical doctor in this general health clinic. He curates the beginner artists in performance. The clinic treatment team is interested in initiative on arts as a consortium of working together to advance the better health care inmental health clinic population, case studies, and practice of art and art therapy as tools for health. The nature of our findings sees the value of art in art therapy is just the process in art rather than the product (the artwork). The results of art sessions among 20 patients are pointless healing and it has brought the person to engage the path of change. The potentials of complexities of a person work at a deep level under the circumstance of art (when the condition is given). Those deep layer understandings and communications has led the person to change positively where the individuals and families find well-being , positive emotions and behaviors, functioning, social inclusion and acceptance.This paper brings 4 case studies and their progressiveness over the course of the expressive art therapies sessions. Case 1: a severely agitated, depressed gentleman ‘UPu’, 60, has painful regrets of his past as a gambler and has thought of gambling/the playing card is the evil of past and his depression is the punishment for the present and so he is agitated, sleepless ; he has fear for being alone sleepless at nights and his wife is waken up frequent, guilty, painful, depressed. After the psychiatric assessment and treatment plan (combined treatment of anti depressant and art therapy), he underwent 2 time dialogues with the art therapist and agreed to proceed the art therapy sessions. He was just asked to do something with playing cards on the white paper. During the 30 minute process, he thought and created the collage works with playing cards on the white paper and titled it as ‘Pokka’ and finished his work. He made an effort for 30 minutes process (the background music (Bob Dylan) was playing and he said ‘OK’ with the music) and after the work, he explained about his thoughts related to his creative work; In his past, the gambling and playing card was evil and destructive like crime, but now he plays the cards as creation in new sense under the provision of circumstance of art. After the successful creative effort, he felt satisfied and promising to have the progressive arts therapy session on weekly basis. In the next visit, he was no more agitated and had been improving in one week. Case 2: Nyo Min Lwin, 35, male, a recovering bipolar mood disorder (at the first session, he witnessed the case 1; U Pu’s expressive work and said he wished to perform the mind work through his hands doing message like actions to someone’s body. He explained about his mind effort would move his hands on someone’s body. His suggestion was to let him to do his mind guided movement of his hands (doing message) to the art therapist and asked for a condition with laying the art therapist on the mat on the floor in silence. He was asked if the music atmosphere (Bethoven) was provided and he said he was OK with the music. The art therapist (tried to know