Guidelines to Develop an Art Therapy APP to Control the Children’s State Anxiety in Mexico

Anxiety state is a transitory condition that afflicts the child population of school age in Mexico City, whose control implies considering therapeutic treatments such as Art Therapy, a psycho therapeutic process that, through different artistic manifestations, offers available alternatives to control this disease. Although art therapies are usually carried out through analogous media and resources, the advances in mobile technology -as part of the implementation of the Internet of Things- and its easy children appropriation, have promoted the use of software applications as APP for mobile devices to optimize the therapeutic process. This requires identifying the contributions and opportunity areas of existing APPs for the Art Therapy process and propose approaches to define the guidelines to develop efficient applications for Art Therapy. This paper presents the justification and development process, based on a documental search and analysis of existing APPs, to propose guidelines to establish the conditions required for the development of an Art Therapy APP to support the therapeutic process in question.