Latinx farmworker children are a vulnerable and disparate health population that confronts a myriad of threats to their emotional and behavioral health and subsequent development. Art therapy provides a potentially valuable and efficient strategy for preventing young children's mental health problems by providing a structured and engaging outlet for resolving the emotional sequelae of chronic adversity. A narrative-focused and trauma-processing art therapy program was implemented with 14 children aged between 3–5 years over 12 sessions in a bi-weekly format within a rural migrant head start program. We used a simple single group pre/posttest design to examine the impact of this intervention and saw improvement in all developmental areas using a specifically designed art therapy observation measure (ATC-PC) and a routine early development measure (LAP-3). However, it was unclear whether these changes were attributable to the art therapy program alone. Therefore, the findings of this pilot study warrant replication at a wider-scale. Additionally, the ATC-PC was shown to be a promising observation tool to document progress in art therapy with young children that also requires wider implementation and further testing.

拉丁裔的农民工儿童是一个脆弱而分散的健康人群，面临着对其情感和行为健康以及随后发展的无数威胁。艺术疗法通过提供结构化且引人入胜的解决方案来解决慢性逆境的情感后遗症，为预防幼儿的心理健康问题提供了潜在有价值的有效策略。在农村移民的先发计划中，以双周形式对14名3至5岁的儿童进行了叙述性，创伤处理的艺术治疗计划，共分12节，每星期两次。我们使用简单的单组前/后测试设计来检查此干预措施的影响，并使用专门设计的艺术疗法观察措施（ATC-PC）和常规早期开发措施（LAP-3）来观察所有发育领域的改善。但是，尚不清楚这些变化是否仅归因于艺术疗法计划。因此，该初步研究的结果需要在更大范围内复制。此外，ATC-PC被证明是一种有前途的观察工具，可以证明对幼儿进行艺术治疗的进展，这也需要更广泛的实施和进一步的测试。