Bibliographic record
Abstract
This qualitative narrative research explores the in-depth clinical cases of three young Hindu South Asian Indian immigrant women (two Indian Hindu, Punjabi and one Indian Hindu, Gujarati) living in a shelter for domestic violence in Canada, using a culturally modified clinical art therapy modality as part of their therapeutic process. These traumatized women of a different cultural/ethnic background from the host Canadian culture, originate from a society where mental health issues are highly stigmatized. Resistance to seek help outside of the extended family system or outside of the community is often an obstacle to seeking treatment. While the incidence of trauma is high in the South Asian community, modalities of treatment are limited. A clinical art therapy protocol developed for this research uses a 12 week program of individual audio-recorded sessions over a five month period, with a therapist of the same cultural/ethnic background as the women. These women are pre-diagnosed by mental health professionals and exhibit distinct symptoms of harm which manifest in three self-harming categories: superficial self-harm, somatization, and self-defined negative body images. The internalized issues of these women are examined. Furthermore, the use of art therapy as another route to embodiment and changes to the self in a bicultural predicament are also explored. Focus is given to the challenges of culture and traditions in treating this particular group. Theoretical literature is reviewed, and the personal meanings the women gained from the art process and the images produced from it are examined. A projective drawing test - the draw-a-person assessment tool was used to interpret self-perceptions, and a questionnaire-based interview at the end of the study was utilized and analyzed to address functioning and symptoms to support this research. \nThe results of this research pilot project indicate that the act of creating art in the context of clinical art therapy helped inform and transform the participant’s traumatic experiences and re-engaged their coping strategies. By representing their trauma(s) as symbolic creations in the artwork(s), the women gained awareness of their feelings, thoughts, emotions, and symptoms of suffering. The creative process helped facilitate the emergence of insight into their traumatic experience(s) and healing on both a conscious and unconscious level and through verbal and non-verbal communication. The clinical art therapy modality provided detailed explanations on the women’s internalizations and traumas; association between cumulative trauma and embodiment issues; the significance of culture and changes gained through art therapy. This clinical art therapy modality contributes to the trauma treatment of women who are the victims of violence and can be applied across cultural communities. \nMore specifically, in the description of their experience and response to domestic violence and to the art they have created, an awareness of art as a healing process in their recovery might be elicited.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".