is a universal psychotherapeutic, interdisciplinary (at the intersection of medicine, psychology, pedagogy, culture, social work) method used for the purpose of comprehensive rehabilitation and aimed at eliminating or reducing neuropsychiatric disorders, restoring and developing impaired functions, compensatory factors, forming abilities for playing, learning, and working activities in the process of engaging in specific, purposeful types of creativity. Art therapy pursues two main tasks:
1) restoration of the individual and social value of a person with a disability;
2) restoration of lost functions of the body and initiation into activity.
Drawing can be both psychodiagnostic and psychocorrective. For example, by the tonal and color solution, rhythm and composition of the drawing, by the choice of characters, the plot, it is possible to judge the presence of certain problems in the psychology of a person and his worldview. Drawing can also serve as a way to solve psychological, intrapersonal problems (fears, anxiety, uncertainty, loneliness, loneliness, overcoming negative experiences). Art therapy does not require artistic abilities, the main thing is that a person can express his inner state, his feelings and experiences through drawing. Being directly related to the higher mental functions – visual and tactile (when drawing with fingers) perception, motor coordination, speech, thinking – drawing not only contributes to the development of each function, but also connects them with each other, helping a person to organize the acquired knowledge and skills, to form and fix his ideas about the world around him.