Depending on their socio-emotional development, patients have different abilities and needs when dealing with the material world and making art. By looking at the artistic development and putting it into context with the socio-emotional development, we aim to better understand the artistic expressions of our patients. This can help to provide patients in art therapy with suitable interventions which meet their needs and abilities and support them in their further development based on their current developmental stage.
Sophia Krause has a master’s degree in psychodynamic art therapy (University of Art, Berlin) and is currently working at the Treatment Center for Mental Health in Developmental Disabilities at KEH, Berlin. Since 2009 she has been working in educational and therapeutic contexts with people with intellectual disabilities including a sheltered workshop for artists with disabilities, in integration assistance with a focus on autism-spectrum-disorder and as an art therapist at a psychiatric department for children and adolescents. Next to therapy her focus is on project-based art education.