Art Making’s Impact on the Emotion Recognition Skills of Incarcerated Youth (Not Eligible for CEs)
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Libby Fisher, BS
Libby Fisher holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She is currently an Art Therapy Counseling Master's Candidate at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She has research interests in emotional self-awareness, emotion recognition, resilience, and the juvenile justice system.
Youth with mental health disorders may lack emotion recognition skills. This experimental study evaluated emotion recognition scores of incarcerated youth in a detention center after participating in art making. Working within a juvenile detention setting, I hypothesized adolescents’ emotional recognition skills would increase after art making sessions.