Creative Arts Therapies help support the mind, body and emotions of patients and their families. This team includes art therapists and music therapists, each using creative ways to help kids feel better.
Art and music therapy let children express themselves with or without words. This can be really helpful when kids have a hard time talking about how they feel.
Creative arts therapists work with kids and families staying at the Children’s Wisconsin’s Milwaukee Hospital. To find out if Art Therapy or Music Therapy is available on your child’s unit, please ask your care team.
Art therapists and music therapists work with patients, siblings and caregivers in one-on-one or family sessions to:
- Help express feelings
- Increase awareness of the body
- Manage symptoms without medicine
- Help understand thoughts and feelings about being in the hospital
- Support during end-of-life and grief
- And more