Does Art Therapy Provide Benefits to One's Health?

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Art therapy is considered by many to be an obscure form of therapy: this is evident by there only being 5000 licensed art therapists in the United States of America, according to Elka Torpey, an economist for the Bureau Labor of Statistics. Art therapists assist people in understanding their emotions in addition to finding a stable state of mind. Controversy surrounds whether there are actual benefits…