ABSTRACT

Research on the positive events in the therapeutic counseling process is usually undertaken from the client’s perspective. However, few studies have investigated the beneficial aspects of the therapeutic counselling process, particularly in creative expressive fields. This preliminary qualitative study aims to evaluate the therapeutic experience of utilizing Creative expressive – Bodily maps of emotions (CE-BME) with young clients in the helpful process. The CE-BME is an art therapy tool that counselling practitioners or therapists have extensively used in Malaysian mental health settings. A qualitative approach known as the grounded theory method was employed in this study through face-to-face and video call interviews with four therapists from the health setting who conducted sessions for children and adolescents using the CE-BME. As a result, six themes of the helpful process were identified: (1) facilitating emotional exploration and processing, (2) engaging relationships with young clients, (3) expanding the client’s self-awareness, (4) helping the direction of intervention, (5) release for clients, and (6) relief for therapists. Furthermore, these findings established the following outcomes regarding the CE-BME tool as a helpful process, thereby boosting researchers’ confidence in applying the main study to more therapists engaged in children’s mental health intervention.

摘要

通常从来访者的角度对治疗咨询过程中的积极事件进行研究。然而，很少有研究调查治疗咨询过程的有益方面，特别是在创造性表达领域。这项初步的定性研究旨在评估在帮助过程中与年轻客户一起使用创造性表达 - 情绪身体图 (CE-BME)的治疗体验。CE- BME是一种艺术治疗工具，咨询从业者或治疗师在马来西亚的心理健康环境中广泛使用。本研究采用了一种称为扎根理论方法的定性方法，通过面对面和视频通话采访了来自健康环境的四位治疗师，他们使用CE-BME为儿童和青少年进行了会议。结果，确定了帮助过程的六个主题：（1）促进情感探索和处理，（2）与年轻客户建立关系，（3）扩大客户的自我意识，（4）帮助干预方向， (5) 为客户释放，以及 (6) 为治疗师提供救济。此外，这些发现确定了有关CE-BME的以下结果工具作为一个有用的过程，从而增强了研究人员将主要研究应用于更多从事儿童心理健康干预的治疗师的信心。