هنر درمانی در توانبخشی سکته مغزی: یک مدل از درمان گروهی کوتاه مدت

In 1991, art therapy (AT) was incorporated in the stroke-rehabilitation program of the Loewenstein Hospital located in Raanana, Israel (Gonen, Ring, Stern, & Soroker, 1992). From the very beginning the staff felt the need to develop a structured model of AT for the subacute stroke patients undergoing intensive rehabilitation. A prerequisite from such a model would be the creation of a form complementary to the conventional treatment modalities already being applied in the rehabilitation program, and a consideration to such constraints as mean hospitalization time and restricted number of qualified AT clinicians versus a large number of patients in need. We also believed that the structured model to be developed should include means for assessing its efficiency with respect to its declared objectives. In this paper we describe the Loewenstein model of AT for stroke patients, and the means developed for evaluating the role of AT as a part of a rehabilitation program.