Introducing Therapeutic Art Education Program (TAEP) into the Lebanese school system for the students at-risk

النوع : Mémoire

A Therapeutic Art Education Program (TAEP) was introduced to the Lebanese School system. This research investigates this program's effectiveness on manifest anxiety, academic performance and conduct of the students at-risk. Nine students from Tekeyan Intermediary School in Bourj Hammoud were referred to take part in the experimental group. After running a survey on the 115 students of the school; nine students were chosen to represent a control group. A longitudinal research was designed for empirically testing the effect of TAEP on the anxiety levels, on GPA and conduct of the students. After twenty sessions of implementing the TAEP the anxiety levels of the students had significantly decreased, the academic performance had improved while the conduct was not significantly changed.