User:Hill Sarah Louise

About me
To view my e-portfolio and resume see: Sarah Hill e-portfolio

Employment:
Commonwealth Government public servant in the Office for the Arts

Education:
Undergraduate student at University of Canberra studying a Bachelor of Science (Psychology)

Bachelor of Art History and Curatorship (Hons)

Interests:

 * Art
 * Travel
 * Enjoying the sunshine

Current book chapter in development
See book Motivation and Emotion 2020 and chapter: Art and Emotion

Considers art and emotions and how art therapy engages and influences emotion in therapeutic context.

Focus questions for the chapter are:


 * How does art therapy help people recover from, or cope with, emotional difficulties?
 * What is the relationship between art therapy and psychological theory?
 * What is the evidence for the benefits of art therapy.

Discussion provided across a range of applications and conditions

Social contributions

 * 1) Contributed to discussion on the chapter that considers the need for Indigenous Psychologists by suggesting culturally and language sensitive services. https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AMotivation_and_emotion%2FBook%2F2020%2FIndigenous_Australian_psychologist_motivation&type=revision&diff=2199526&oldid=2199179
 * 2) Made changes to chapter on the effects on aging on emotions by introducing the topic of dementia https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Motivation_and_emotion%2FBook%2F2020%2FEmotion_regulation_and_ageing&type=revision&diff=2199561&oldid=2199135
 * 3) Contributed to discussion on the chapter that considers emotion regulation and music https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AMotivation_and_emotion%2FBook%2F2020%2FMusic_and_emotion_regulation&type=revision&diff=2199590&oldid=2196135
 * 4) Contributed to discussion on the chapter by making a suggestion for a focus on changes in the contemporary workplace: https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AMotivation_and_emotion%2FBook%2F2020%2FWorkplace_mental_health&type=revision&diff=2199621&oldid=2196837
 * 5) Added to the above discussion with a journal title that might be of interest. https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AMotivation_and_emotion%2FBook%2F2020%2FWorkplace_mental_health&type=revision&diff=2199632&oldid=2199621
 * 6) Added genetic risk for alcohol abuse https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Motivation_and_emotion/Book/2020/Brief_motivational_interventions_for_problematic_alcohol_use&diff=2210357&oldid=2205407
 * 7) Suggested briefly addressing the effect paedophilia on victims https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AMotivation_and_emotion%2FBook%2F2020%2FPaedophilic_motivation&type=revision&diff=2210360&oldid=2207727
 * 8) Suggested further consideration of the evidence for deindividuation theory in the sense that people lose their identity in a crowd  https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Motivation_and_emotion%2FBook%2F2020%2FCrowds_and_emotion&type=revision&diff=2212020&oldid=2208964 and https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Motivation_and_emotion%2FBook%2F2020%2FCrowds_and_emotion&type=revision&diff=2212028&oldid=2212020