Being in Between: Exploring Cultural Bereavement and Identity Expression through Drawing

Beauregard, Caroline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0917-9102 (2020). Being in Between: Exploring Cultural Bereavement and Identity Expression through Drawing. Journal of Creativity in Mental Health , 15 (3). pp. 292-310. doi:10.1080/15401383.2019.1702131 Repéré dans Depositum à https://depositum.uqat.ca/id/eprint/1411

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When leaving their country of origin, immigrant children experience various losses that can lead to a grief reaction called cultural bereavement. Being an ambiguous loss, cultural bereavement can complicate children’s identity construction by creating a gap between home and host country identities that may affect children’s sense of belonging and identity. Yet, drawing can support immigrant children in the meaning-making process necessary to work through the experience of cultural bereavement, as it is a non-threatening way to safely express emotionally charged material. This article presents the case study of an 11-year-old immigrant Egyptian girl who used drawing in the context of classroom-based creative expression workshops to express her cultural bereavement process and create a new meaningful identity.

Type de document:	Article
Informations complémentaires:	Cette version de l'article représente le manuscrit final accepté pour publication (postpublication). La version officielle a été publiée dans la revue Journal of Creativity in Mental Health en 2020 : https://doi.org/10.1080/15401383.2019.1702131
Mots-clés libres:	cultural bereavement; identity construction; immigrant children; drawing; classroom-based; creative expression program
Divisions:	Art-Thérapie
Date de dépôt:	13 mars 2023 18:04
Dernière modification:	14 mai 2026 19:04
URI:	https://depositum.uqat.ca/id/eprint/1411

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