Art Therapy 

a form of psychotherapy involving the encouragement of free self-expression through painting, drawing, or modeling used as a remedial activity or an aid to diagnosis.

- models of food intake regulation that emphasize the interplay of psychological and physiological control processes
- self-regulation theory
- neuro-cognitive and therapeutic models of mindfulness meditation

Theoretical Approaches in Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training

how people cope and adapt to stressful situations like threats and health problems. There are two modes of processing information: 1) objective representation of a health problem in lab result or tumor stage 2) subjective representation of the problem in emotional terms like fear and anger 

University of California, Davis

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 

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