A Brief Exploratory Review of Mandala Drawing & Coloring in Promoting Mental Health - Well-being among Young Children during the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown

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The Coronavirus Disease-2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has driven widespread fear and disruption of daily life, leading to stress, anxiety, and depression across ages, including young children. With schools and institutions closed during lockdowns, children’s routines and educational attendance became irregular, intensifying emotional strain. This paper provides a brief exploratory review of mandala drawing and coloring as a diagnostic-therapeutic approach for promoting mental health and well-being for young children in the pandemic context.

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Introduction

Covid-19 impact on mental well-being

Mandala drawing and coloring as an approach

THE ASIAN EDUCATIONAL THERAPIST ISSN: 2972-4104, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 64 – 73 Copyright © The authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, including commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. CASE REVIEW A Brief Exploratory Review of Mandala Drawing & Coloring in Promoting Mental Health/Well-being among Young Children during the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown Wujing LIU Merlion Academy, Trainee Article DOI: [https://doi.org/10.64663/aet.18](https://doi.org/10.64663/aet.18) Corresponding author’s email: [liuwj54@gmail.com](liuwj54@gmail.com) Cite as: LIU, W. (2023). A Brief Exploratory Review of Mandala Drawing & Coloring in Promoting Mental Health/Well-being among Young Children during the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown. The Asian Educational Therapist, 1(1), 64-73. Editorial note: Republication This article was originally published in the discontinued Early Years Research (EYR) without a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). EYR was published by the same scholarly association as The Asian Educational Therapist (AET). It is now republished and digitally archived in AET with a new DOI for better preservation, discoverability and citation tracking. Copyediting and formatting updates were applied for improved readability and accessibility. The intellectual content remains unchanged. Readers are advised to cite the new version with the DOI. Original citation: Liu, W. (2021). A Brief Exploratory Review of Mandala Drawing & Coloring in Promoting Mental Health/Well-being among Young Children during the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown. Early Years Research, 1(1), 34-41. ABSTRACT As the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (Covid-19 for short) pandemic continues ravaging throughout the world, no country is spared from the catastrophic pestilence, and no one regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, religion, socio-economic status, occupation, health status … can avoid or be exempted from it. Despite the stringent measures and strong advisories issued by the governments of respective countries, the number of Covid-19 cases continues to climb drastically instilling fear in the heart of everyone. As a result, schools, colleges and universities have to shut down, factories and offices come to almost a standstill, tourist attraction places are completely empty, tourism and recreation come almost to a complete halt due to entry restrictions imposed …the list of mandatory do’s and don’ts increases, affecting the mental well-being of the people and driving many of them (both adults as well as youths and children) to stress, anxiety and depression. The author’s aim of this paper is to provide a brief exploratory review on the use of mandala drawing and coloring as a diagnostic-therapeutic approach to promote mental health or well-being in young children. Keywords: Covid-19 Pandemic, Mandala Drawing and Coloring, Mental Health/Well-Being 1. INTRODUCTION The last time the world experienced a “major global outbreak of disease world was the “swine flu”pandemic (also known as H1N1) in 2009. That was the first pandemic in the twenty-first century (Rogers, 2020) . The disease was first detected in Mexico in February 2009 and spread rapidly to the United States by April in the same year. Soon other parts of the world were also infected by people traveling out of Mexico and the United States. In June of that year, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic. Ten years later, in 2019, in a wet market in the city of Wuhan in China, a new pandemic was about to occur. A young Chinese doctor 1 noticed a new contagious disease was infecting many people and alerted his colleagues about it. However, the local authorities chose to hush up the doctor and even threatened him with jail. The failure to contain the spread of the unknown disease within the c

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本文研究的核心目的是什么？

本文旨在提供一项简要的探索性综述，讨论通过曼荼罗绘画与涂色情绪活动来促进幼儿心理健康与福祉的诊断-治疗性方法。

Covid-19 疫情与封控措施如何影响幼儿心理状态？

封控导致学校关闭与日常节奏被打乱，使儿童的学习和出勤变得不规律，进而更常出现压力与焦虑，且抑郁也可能成为压力与焦虑的后果。

为什么作者认为曼荼罗绘画与涂色值得作为干预手段？

作者将曼荼罗绘画与涂色视为一种可用于支持幼儿心理健康与福祉的诊断-治疗性途径，并在综述中进行探索。

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