Art+Therapy

=Art Therapy=

Topic:
**Sample Essential Question (establish a focus for your research)** **List Supporting Questions (provide background and guide your research):**
 * How could an Art Therapy class help a mentally handicapped child? **
 * **1. Would parents send their children to this class?** ||
 * **2. How would you find teachers for this class?** ||
 * **3. Could other children take this class?** ||
 * **4. How would this class effect students with mental disabilities?** ||
 * **5. Would children with mental handicaps exhibit the behavior learned in this class, at home or in public?** ||
 * <[[file:Think_before_you_begin.pdf]]> worksheet **

==** 2. Information seeking strategies: Use these Keywords to search online databases for books, articles and websites. Use Boolean Operators ( AND, OR, NOT ) to combine these terms and refine your search: **==
 * = **Psychology** ||=  ||= **Mentally Handicapped Children** ||=   ||= **Coping Art Therapy** ||=   ||||= **Disabilities** ||
 * = **Sociology** ||=  ||= **Education Anxiety** ||=   ||= **Music** ||=   ||||= **Autism** ||

**Look for Books under these Dewey Numbers:**

 * = **155.4 **
 * Child Psychology ** ||||=  ||= **371.9**
 * Special Education** ||=  ||= **615.8**
 * Art Therapy** ||=  ||= **618.92**
 * Autism and other Pediatrics** ||=  ||= **780**
 * General Music** ||=  ||

[[file:at_excel.pdf]]
Click on the Thomas Dale OPAC(Online Catalog) to locate additional books in our collection


 * Sample Subscription Database searches: **

|| Link to database search for Grolier ||
 * Link to database search for ABC-Clio
 * Now do your own search || Now do your own search ||

Three excellent web sites:

 * dr. deb ||  || art for healing art therapy || Best to maximize this webpage. ||

Step 4: Use of Information; take notes; record bibliographic information for each source.
See citation & notecard guides under Roadmap to Research on the main library page. Use the <>,Citation Machine or Easy Bib for your works Cited list.

Step 6. Evaluate your work that you have successfully completed all steps.
See <>; <>.


 * Steps in the “Big6™” are copyright © (1987) Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz. For more on Big6, visit: www.big6.com **