- integrates mindfulness meditation skills and aspect of art therapy into an eight-week, gender-segregated supportive group therapy format. 
- A multi-modal design intended to provide opportunities for verbal and non-verbal expression, enhanced support and expanded coping strategies 
- decreases stress and improves life quality 
- overall theoretical framework is rooted in the principles of self-regulation theory to understand reactions to perceptions of physical and emotional well-being.

Syracuse University

University of California, Davis

Mindfulness-Based Art Therpay integrates mindfulness meditation skills and aspects of art therapy into an eight week, gender segregated supportive group therapy format.

 Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy (MBAT) 

Monti, D. A., Peterson, C., Kunkel, E. J., Hauck, W. W., Pequignot, E., Rhodes, L., &amp; Brainard, G. C. (2006). A randomized, controlled trial of mindfulness-based art therapy (MBAT) for women with cancer. Psycho-Oncology, 15(5), 363–373. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.988 

- Women with Cancer
- Refugees/ Asylum Seekers
- Children
- College Students
- Coronary Artery Disease Patients
- Gender Variant Individuals
- People with TBI's or Mental Diseases

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