ABSTRACT
Art-based therapy focuses on the creative experience to promote functional behaviors; using materials for support, prevention, treatment, and education allows people to connect with themselves, and their inner world, and to know their limitations and abilities, through the creation of a healthy creative process. The art-therapeutic path involves using tools, such as dry, liquid, and malleable materials and new media, like photographs and videos, to recreate one’s internal and external world, reworking and reconstructing it. Specifically, the use of technology enhances creativity and promotes the active use of multimedia tools, complementing the traditional areas of art therapy (graphic-plastic painting, theater therapy, music therapy, and dance therapy) through cell phone applications, computer, software, and specific social platforms. This chapter emphasizes the main characteristics of the online psychotherapy setting and describes the several contexts of art-based therapy application according to the scientific literature, considering the influence of the digital age in the development of new tools and methods of art therapy.
