The Effect of Interactive Television-Based Visual Arts and Expressive Arts Therapy on the Critical Thinking Skills of School Children that Survived Abduction
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The Effect of Interactive Television-Based Visual Arts and Expressive Arts Therapy on the Critical Thinking Skills of School Children that Survived Abduction
This study examined the effect of interactive television-based visual art therapy and expressive arts therapy on the critical thinking skills of school children that survived abduction. A quasi-experiment was conducted among 470 school children in two secondary schools. The participants were divided into a control group (N = 235) and experimental group (N = 235). The experiment group was further divided into the art therapy group and the expressive art therapy group. We found that art therapy and expressive art therapy were effective in improving the critical thinking skills of the children who experienced kidnapping in Nigeria.
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