[Art therapy as an assisting psychotherapeutic method for adolescents]

The report deals with psychoprophylaxis of children and youth being in danger of alcoholism, drug addiction, juvenile delinquency and suicide. In the Psychiatric Out-patient Department in Gdynia we have been practising psychological, social and art-therapeutic care to the youth, and rendering training to their families and tutors (Consulting-Psychoprophylactic Club). The authoresses describe one example of art-therapeutic expression included in two series of pictures made by a girl (4 years old) and her brother (9 years old) after the tragedy of their mother's being killed by their father.

This type of therapy facilitates the experience and release of stress is helpful in improving the relationship between the child and his frequently awkward tutors.