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276 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress treatment or combined with other relaxation techniques to relieve stress and anxiety. Fifth, Relieves pain. Art therapy can also help clients overcome the pain experienced due to various psychological problems. This therapy can be used as a complementary therapy to treat clients who are sick. According Malchiodi, (2008; 2011) there are five components of information and information Expressive art therapy Art Therapy in the treatment of trauma, namely: (1) Using “neurosequential approach” through the expressive arts therapy to stabilize the body’s response; (2) Identifying the body’s reaction to stressful events and memories through the evaluation of trauma-based information and sensory activities using expressive arts; (3) In response to the body’s reaction to a traumatic event through somatic and sensory approach to self-regulation; (4) Strengthening security through a reconnection with a positive attachment and self-soothing; (5) Build strength by using art to normalize and improve endurance. Then, he stated that art therapy for trauma is based on the idea that artistic expression can help in reconnecting implicitly and explicitly about the memories of trauma and in the treatment of PTSD. In particular, it is an approach that helps children’s ability to regulate itself influence and modulate the body’s reaction to a traumatic experience at an early stage to set the stage for the eventual integration of trauma and recovery. C. Conclusion From the author’s experience in dealing with children and adolescents who live in barracks shelter after the earthquake and tsunami were aged 6 - 14 years in Krueng Raya, Aceh Besar, Lhoknga, at which time, they looked very frightened and difficult to talk, then through painting they finally spoke and felt happy and excited. This marks the painting can relieve the pain they are experiencing. From then on, the author states that the painting is one of the media effective therapy for the treatment of children and adolescents who posttraumatic stress (PTSD). In addition, the authors also been dealing with children and adolescents victims of armed conflict in eastern Aceh and Aceh Langsa South, at which time their condition is very alarming, because the extraordinary fear when they see strangers in addition to their teachers, but after the handling by providing coloring book and crayons, they got busy drawing and over time they’ve started to talk when asked, and began to dare to stare at the author, and after two days they had dared to ask for a picture book and crayons again. That is here, drawing is one way to relieve the tension and fear of them. Since then, the authors concluded that children and adolescents who experience post traumatic incident stress (PTSD) can be handled through drawing or painting art therapy. PTSD is an emotional disorder that may be caused by a traumatic event one time, such as natural or man-made disasters , or by repeated traumatic experiences such as the conflict in Aceh. References DSM-IV (2004). Criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Briere. J (1995). Trauma Symptom Inventory , USA: Psychological Assessment Resources.