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Document 1078
DOCN M9471078
TI Sharing the patient experience in the classroom with the Art for
Recovery program (AFR) (Meeting abstract).
DT 9409
AU Perlis C; Wallace D; Rosenbaum E; UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Center, 1600
Divisidaro St., San; Francisco CA 94120
SO Proc Annu Meet Am Soc Clin Oncol; 13:A1552 1994. Unique Identifier :
AIDSLINE ICDB/94601545
AB Beginning in September of 1992, a co-operative learning/healing project
was initiated involving 24 7th and 8th grade students from Brandeis
Hillel Day School and 12 adult AFR participants with cancer or AIDS from
the medical center. Ms Perlis delivered patients' art work and letters
to the students each month, facilitated a group discussion, and the
students' replies. The objective of the project was to increase
awareness and compassion regarding life threatening diseases among the
students. Initially the children were unsure of what to write or to
draw. As the monthly exchanges occurred the students and the patients
became more inquisitive, intimate, and candid. Students were soon asking
what it felt like to have a life-threatening illness such as cancer or
AIDS. The exchanges of art works and letters brought forth shared
concerns, such as embarrassment over a wind-blown wig, physical
limitations, or fear of dying. Patients who were well enough visited the
school to meet their 'pen pals.' This interpersonal experience validated
what had previously only been known at a distance--we are all community.
Illness does not make us less human nor does it render obsolete our
basic need for social belonging.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Adolescence Adult *Art Therapy
Child Human Neoplasms MEETING ABSTRACT
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).