59-05-032 Proceeding
270 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress The statement above shows that there is a unification efforts disciplines of art and psychology, although today there aremanywho consider that these two disciplines do not intersect or even collaborate.This stigma still persist in the minds of society, even the people in theWestern world, where the development of the science of art therapy is already quite advanced, sometimes still unfamiliar with the term art therapy. Only people who are in this world who has conducted art therapy activities real understanding of what and how the art therapy. It is certainly not out of the collaboration between art and psychology researchers. From the author’s experience in handling over the 150 children affected by the tsunami in Krueng Raya, Aceh Besar in 2007, when there are many children who live in shelter, they are still very difficult to talkwith people around him, especially the person never seen, then theywill run and hide. Initially author with friends fromYP2AKCAMADA trying to helpwith a variety of children’s games such as playing ball, playing furtive, but also still difficult for them to talk fluently, so I was desperate at that moment, because it cannot help them, even if only for a smile. But suddenly the writer remembered when the trainee trauma healing done by NGOs from Australia, they share with us flip chart paper and crayons, they said that if the father’s mother was troubled, restless then use paper and crayons, create a What can you remember and think at the time. The writing then remembered that the author makes a painting that occurred at that time and still on display at the room flower bed that is drawing up the current interest know what it is, but if considered as a tulip. Based on that memory, then we are on the foundation YP2AK CAMADA distribute coloring book and crayons at 150 more children over, and asked them to make what they like or what they hate most in the picture book, and extraordinary results showed that children which have been difficult to communicate fluently finally able to talk to their neighbors for exchanging color crayon we unevenly distributed unintentionally because it is not enough crayons. At that time the author does not think that this is one approach or therapies, which occurred at the time was how these children feel happy, and we managed to do it by giving them a job to paint and they were very happy and joyful at the time, unfortunately we never analyze painting them, because at that point we do not know the meaning of a painting, but when seen their paintings are extremely diverse. Since then, every time Imeet with the children that are difficult to talk, the author obtaining try to give crayons and coloring book and turns always successful and the children really like. From this experience, the author began to arise various questions why children are very fond of painting a picture, to answer these questions the author began to analyze the images are written, unfortunately, these photos have been deleted because of a virus, but I still remember some of the pictures they painted i.e. images of various weapons, masked men, and mountain views. At that time the author only assume it is the usual image, but ultimately the authors found they what they painted, that is what they play, such as war. Throughout Aceh this game so popular that there are many traders popularity of the benefit because they managed to sell the toy guns are in demand in the market. But the impact of the games looks more dangerous, such as ridingmini bus full top down and they began to attack the children who watch the road edge, so no child victims who were shot with rubber pistol into the eyes. When in the analysis of the game turned out a
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