VIDEO: Prevent Blindness offers art therapy to aid mental wellness in thyroid eye disease
In this Healio video, Jeff Todd, president and CEO at Prevent Blindness, discusses the organization’s art therapy program, which was created to help patients with thyroid eye disease cope with feelings of isolation, anxiety and depression.
“Art therapy is an integrative mental health treatment model that has been shown to improve mental health, emotional health and even physical health,” Todd told Healio.
While art therapy can help any individual with physical or visual limitations, those with thyroid eye disease may benefit most, he said.
The complimentary program, which is sponsored by Amgen and Viridian Therapeutics, is now accepting applications for its fall session.
Reference:
- Special programs and initiatives: The Prevent Blindness art therapy program. https://preventblindness.org/the-prevent-blindness-art-therapy-program/. Accessed Aug. 15, 2024.
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