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Exploring the Benefit of Creative Arts Therapies for Children, Adolescents, and Adults
A neurotransmitter that can assist in stabilizing mood.
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The Creative Arts and Its Impact on Foster Children Within Their Critical Developmental Years
Kayleen Cabrera (Marymount Manhattan College, USA) and Nava R. Silton (Marymount Manhattan College, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7856-1.ch012
Abstract
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.
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Neurotransmitter and Behaviour
Serotonin or 5-hydroxytryptamine is a monoamine neurotransmitter. It has a popular image as a contributor to feelings of well-being and happiness.
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Neuropsychological Profile of Various Neurological and Psychiatric Conditions
Is a chemical nerve cells produce. It sends signals between your nerve cells. Serotonin is found mostly in the digestive system, although it's also in blood platelets and throughout the central nervous system. Serotonin is made from the essential amino acid tryptophan.
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