Hospital Based Program
The Art Therapy Studio at MetroHealth Medical Center currently provides comprehensive arts
therapy services to patients in the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Center. It is especially
recognized for it’s innovative art therapy programs for persons with strokes, spinal cord and
brain injury. This cooperative relationship has existed since 1967, and has been a model for
our other collaborative relationships in the greater Cleveland community and for other art
therapy programs throughout the country.
When a person suffers a loss or a disability, such as a spinal cord injury or a stroke, it
sometimes seems as if their world has fallen to pieces. Once normal activities - walking,
talking, eating - have to be relearned. There is a heightened feeling of failure and the loss of
self worth. Words may not be available because of the physical or psychological trauma. An
alternative form of expression is needed to help traumatized patients and their families heal
and rebuild their lives.
The integrating process of creating an image with paint or clay helps put the pieces back
together and makes connections to who we are and what we feel when nothing else seems
to work.
Together, the Art Therapy Studio and MetroHealth Medical Center (MHMC) pioneered the
development of innovative therapeutic art programs for persons with strokes, brain and
spinal cord injury. We later expanded to include children and adults hospitalized with
psychiatric and acute medical illnesses. One example of these specialized services is our art
therapy program for patients and families coping with the often devastating impact of
traumatic brain injury (TBI), which began in 1985. Patients on the MH Brain Injury Unit often
arrive after a traumatic experience such as a motor vehicle accident, assault, work related
injury or stroke. For many, the results are catastrophic, leaving them with emotional, physical
and cognitive impairments that will affect them the rest of their lives.
Our relationship with MetroHealth has existed for almost 40 years. It is a living example of the
power and value of collaborative relationships between art and medicine. It has provided the
model for hospital based arts programs, as far away as New Zealand and Australia, and for
subsequent Art Therapy Studio outreach programs with other arts and healthcare
organizations in the greater Cleveland community, including programs and projects with the
Ohio Arts Council, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, Broadway School of
Music and the Arts, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Music School Settlement and University
Hospitals.
There are hundreds of examples of how art changes the lives of severely ill and disabled
patients with whom we have worked. (Patient Stories... )
The Art Therapy Studio at MetroHealth Medical Center currently provides comprehensive arts
therapy services to patients in the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Center. It is especially
recognized for it’s innovative art therapy programs for persons with strokes, spinal cord and
brain injury. This cooperative relationship has existed since 1967, and has been a model for
our other collaborative relationships in the greater Cleveland community and for other art
therapy programs throughout the country.
When a person suffers a loss or a disability, such as a spinal cord injury or a stroke, it
sometimes seems as if their world has fallen to pieces. Once normal activities - walking,
talking, eating - have to be relearned. There is a heightened feeling of failure and the loss of
self worth. Words may not be available because of the physical or psychological trauma. An
alternative form of expression is needed to help traumatized patients and their families heal
and rebuild their lives.
The integrating process of creating an image with paint or clay helps put the pieces back
together and makes connections to who we are and what we feel when nothing else seems
to work.
Together, the Art Therapy Studio and MetroHealth Medical Center (MHMC) pioneered the
development of innovative therapeutic art programs for persons with strokes, brain and
spinal cord injury. We later expanded to include children and adults hospitalized with
psychiatric and acute medical illnesses. One example of these specialized services is our art
therapy program for patients and families coping with the often devastating impact of
traumatic brain injury (TBI), which began in 1985. Patients on the MH Brain Injury Unit often
arrive after a traumatic experience such as a motor vehicle accident, assault, work related
injury or stroke. For many, the results are catastrophic, leaving them with emotional, physical
and cognitive impairments that will affect them the rest of their lives.
Our relationship with MetroHealth has existed for almost 40 years. It is a living example of the
power and value of collaborative relationships between art and medicine. It has provided the
model for hospital based arts programs, as far away as New Zealand and Australia, and for
subsequent Art Therapy Studio outreach programs with other arts and healthcare
organizations in the greater Cleveland community, including programs and projects with the
Ohio Arts Council, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, Broadway School of
Music and the Arts, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Music School Settlement and University
Hospitals.
There are hundreds of examples of how art changes the lives of severely ill and disabled
patients with whom we have worked. (Patient Stories... )
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