A child develops at different stages, and their cognition and capacity to understand changes as they get older. Even as teenagers, they respond differ-ently. With an adult, you're working with a different insight. A child is living the art. A child thinks it's the world, an adult feels it's their soul talking.
Art therapy taps that source.
All human beings need to be heard. If you want to create a healthy child, let him talk so he'll know he's accepted. Annie Kelahan, a registered art therapist and director of The Bridge Family Center in Atlanta, a residential family treatment facility, uses art therapy during family counseling. An amazing thing is that in family therapy it equalizes all the members. All of a sudden, the kids are just as competent as the parents when they draw.