What is Oxytocin

A child being put into the foster care system comes with various trials. This begins with the foster child's original household dynamic either consisting of neglect or ill-treatment. Other cases being a parent who may not have the capacity to raise the child. To contextualize the creative arts and how they may benefit foster children, this review uses research collected from previous literature to examine prevalence rates, a child's needs, at-risk youth, how the brain reacts to the creation of art, music therapy, and its effects on foster youth, including after-school programs and support that is provided to children that implement the use of creative arts. Significant findings were compiled about the arts activating parts of the brain, consistently stimulating the same three neurotransmitters (oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine). Furthermore, the implementation of the arts in foster children's lives can reverse social and developmental delays they may have encountered as a result of trauma.