59-05-032 Proceeding

273 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress include palpitations, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, chest pain, abdominal pain, dizziness, chills, body heat, and numbness. This is evident from the results of the study author interviews on the subject in the study of other forms of traumatic experience in adolescents prey to conflict and tsunami (Kusmawati H, 2009) 14 . Trauma clinical if not treated will lead to a variety of dysphonic mood disorders, avoidance behaviors (Defensive Avoidance) is one of the symptoms of PTSD that is, the victim can avoid those things that reminded him of the traumatic event. Sometimes - sometimes people associate all the events in their lives every day with trauma, whereas living conditions are now far from the condition of the trauma. In addition, many people become depressed after experiencing a traumatic experience and be no longer interested in things - things that had once been his favorite before the trauma. They developed a feeling that is not true, guilt, self-blame, and feel events experienced by a mistake, although it is not true. Kill the thoughts and feelings, sometimes - sometimes people depressed, felt that life was not worth it. Danger to PTSD possibility depends on factors such as resilience and susceptibility to the effects of trauma, a history of sexual molestation in childhood, trauma severity, degree of exposure, availability of social support, the use of active coping response in the face of traumatic stressors, and feelings of shame (Adrews et al., 2000; Brewin, Andrews and Valentine, 2000; Nishith, Mechanic, & Resick, 2000; Prigerson et al., 2001, Regehr, Hill & Clancy, 2000; Sharkansky et al., 2000; Silva et al., 2000) in Nevid, SJ (2005) 15 . Therefore, for the handling of all these conditions can be carried out with a variety of therapies, one of which is “Art Therapy”. B.2 Handling Trauma with “Art Therapy” Seni is something beautiful that can be heard, seen and felt, especially the art of painting, so much favored by various groups, children, teens and parents, with a variety of different perspectives. Children love to paint with crayons what the picture book, teenagers like to paint with pen edge - edge writings, while parents in accordance with the hobby. It used to be every painting is nothing to the author even though the painting was very expensive. However, post-conflict and tsunami in Aceh, and are often involved in handling traumatized children, the art of painting has a meaning and significance for the author, because the results of the painting was able to describe one’s feelings is not necessarily associated with artists such as dancers, painters, or singers. Art is universal and can be used by anyone, anytime, it is not just a hobby that can satisfy the heart, eyes and pleasing to the ear as a compliment, but the art also can be a drug, such as art therapy, known as “art therapy”, this therapy can help people cope with trauma and other mental stress problems. Art is fun and soothing and a great stress reliever. If an individual suffering from mental trauma or emotional disorders, art therapy this could be the right choice, because it is based on the belief that the creative process such as drawing, painting, or make other craft are healing and life-affirming. For some people, psychological trauma can be very difficult to express in words. Therefore, art therapy can be a means to describe the pain of emotions and feelings that are very deep and very hurt if expressed in words, then by following this therapy, the client is asked to describe and put out thoughts and emotions through the arts. This picture can be in the form of