Art as Therapy: Planning and Setting Up Groups: Collected Papers (Arts Therapies)

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Her calm, empathic, and positive demeanor helps her clients to feel at ease and promotes a healing therapeutic experience. She firmly believes in the inherent healing power of art and creativity, and that in order to know ourselves, we need to express ourselves. Brianna has an unwavering passion for encouraging growth, healing, self-expression, and self-awareness through the power of art making and the creative process.

Outside of the office, Brianna continues to regularly engage in her own art making, with a preference for painting, drawing, and creating wearable art. She manages her own jewelry business and vends at events around the tri-state area. Brianna enjoys traveling, nature, yoga, and spending time with family and friends.

It was the best of both worlds! In Canada she learned a mindfulness, art based, and person-centered approach to therapy. And in Philadelphia, she became grounded in rigors of the medical model and psychodynamic theory. Working with an underserved and impoverished population, she developed original art therapy programs in outpatient and inpatient settings. Lisa also consulted for the US Army working with children and families whose loved ones were deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Art as Therapy: Collected Papers

Lisa is passionate about employing cutting edge, evidence-based treatment models for childhood challenges such as: She recently completed coursework in EMDR therapy and is accepting referrals for children who have been affected by trauma or have symptoms related to trauma. Lisa incorporates EMDR into the child centered art-play therapy in a warm, playful and caring manner.

She enjoys the group approach and believes in the positive influence the group environment can have motivating and facilitating change for children. Lastly, Lisa finds clinical training and consultation highly rewarding, She consulted for the Pennsbury school district, was an adjunct faculty member at Holy Family University, and supervised graduate students from Drexel University.

Michaela is passionate about the power of art-making, visual communication, and its transformative possibilities. Michaela is a strength-based, person-centered, holistic clinician, who sees the potential to grow in everyone. Michaela has experience working in schools, outpatient programs, inpatient hospitals, partial hospitalization programs, and in private practice.

She has worked with a wide range of people working through trauma, anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationships, family challenges, behavioral issues, ADHD, and physical and sexual abuse. Michaela enjoys working with people of all ages and always considers the parents and the whole family in her treatment approach. Michaela believes in meeting each child and family where they are. Her passion for healing, positivity, compassion, patience, and sense of humor are captured in her work with each person. He has 17 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and families. He also was a part of the Child and Adolescent Crisis Response Team, where Donn compassionately and ably supported children with the most severe of emotional needs.

Dedication to professional learning and development is also important to Donn. He has also organized trainings on multiple topics, including multiculturalism, childhood health disorders, and safety precautions. His unique person-centered, strength based, holistic approach helps children and families reach their fullest potential.

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Donald believes deeply and passionately that each individual has the ability and strength to learn and grow. Anna Burke is a Registered, Board Certified art therapist, who has been working with children and their families since Her thesis work explored at the connection between resiliency and creativity in children who experienced severe environmental challenges such as homelessness. Working in collaboration with family therapists Anna enhanced her treatment and communication skills with both children AND parents.

Her creative, playful, and empathic nature put everyone at ease! Anna has developed curricula for parent-child art therapy and art workshops throughout the city of Philadelphia and ran a number parenting workshops. Anna enjoys supporting parents while working with children to build their resiliency to neurological challenges, anxiety, depression, behavioral difficulties, gender identification, and traumatic events.

Anna has a passion for working with children and their families. She feels that every child deserves to be supported and cared for in the most individualized and best possible way — tailored to his or her needs and temperament. I guess the challenge is this-- some individuals are pretty certain they will stay in one state, close to family perhaps. But so many people make a number of moves, including retirement years when they still might want to practice part-time; if one has a degree in art therapy, it might not be accepted in some states due to the degree title [must be counseling, no matter what courses have been taken].

Which makes me wonder if art therapy degrees will survive or will they become counseling master's degrees? I think that will be a big loss for the field and profession if that happens. We can't all depend on being able to stay in one state for the rest of our lives- especially in this economy!

And yes, I wonder what will happen to our degrees and the state of our profession over time! I know that if I were to start an art therapy program someday, I would push for it to be called something like "Art Therapy and Counseling. Maybe it could even be a collaborative effort I don't have time to do it all, but I would definitely help out with something like that!

I have been thinking about going back to school to get my degree in Art Therapy for over a year now I graduated in with a BFA, emphasis on painting and illustration. So far, your articles are some of the best reading material I have come across in my attempt to find out more. I want to be prepared to take the best path I can in this field. It's been disappointing in some ways to hear that Art Therapy is not all that it's made out to be. I have been worrying about picking a school for a variety of reasons - the programs are all different, and the locations are a major factor too.

I don't want to settle down in any one place yet - is it really that hard to change from state to state?

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Should I be looking not for "a place I wouldn't mind living for three years" but instead "a place I wouldn't mind living for the rest of my career"? I am a Special needs teacher keen in doing post grad course on Master of Therapy. You are spot on about the confusion caused by the name titles Though the article notes it is difficult to find a correct avenue to pursue for a proper degree in the field of Art Therapy, there is no direct course offered.

The bloggers here offer more than the article as far as direction goes. Looks like its back to the old drawing board I wish I could say that it was easier, but in art therapy a degree may be in art therapy or counseling or marriage and family therapy or counseling and personnel services or something else entirely.

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Perhaps some day it is will become more standardized. Art therapy is trying to decide if it will lean toward counseling or lean toward itself-- difficult decisions because the degree title may impact what credentials are available to graduates in many states in the US. Cathy-thanks so much for this highly informative article. I find your knowledge and experience in art therapy to be invaluable. I've been researching various art therapy master's programs here in New York. I understand the differences between the programs themselves.

But for me, the issue has always been the cost.

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I have familial obligations first and foremost and I honor those. However, this has been a goal of mine for such a long time and it's disheartening to think I may have to abandon it because of the expense. But I feel like that's where I'm at right now. Wow-this is a depressing post-my apologies I usually am quite optimistic and cheerful!

The entry salary is not very high, it is just the way mental health professions are in the marketplace.

Many art therapy professors believe the field has many jobs; what I think is robust is art therapy education itself. There have been 3 or 4 new grad programs opened just this year. There is a robust market for art therapy education in that numerous bachelor's level art grads see it as a pathway to possible job opportunities. Some attention now needs to be given to job development for a distinct career called "art therapist" in order to sustain the scenario of more and more art therapy grad degrees.

It will have to stop somewhere, especially with the price tag becoming so high and unreachable.

I certainly couldn't do it at this stage, it is sort of out of reach. I am looking to possibly get certified in art therapy. Is it possible for me to get certified in art therapy? Would I be able to call myself an "art therapist" with just the certificate and not the master's in art therapy? Thanks in advance for your help with this. Thank you so much for your article. For example, I'm really interested to read the next post Part III , which is mentioned, but it is difficult to find it without using the search engine each time and search results don't show up in order.

Sometimes related posts show up on the side, but again, not always the next ones. Just a technical comment. Is this the same in the field of art therapy?

Can person practice art therapy without board certification? Say, if they had their bachelors degree in art therapy but nothing beyond? Thank you so much for your wonderful articles. I believe that what you say about music therapy is also true about art therapy in New York State because of the legislation in place [LCAT]. But from what I hear, it is difficult to impossible to enforce for many reasons. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving….

Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Art as Therapy by Edith Kramer. Collected Papers by Edith Kramer. Edith Kramer is one of the pioneers in the field of art therapy, known and respected throughout the world.

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This collection of papers reflects her lifetime of work in this field, showing how her thoughts and practice have developed over the years. She considers a wide spectrum of issues, covering art, art therapy, society, ethology and clinical practice and placing art ther Edith Kramer is one of the pioneers in the field of art therapy, known and respected throughout the world.

She considers a wide spectrum of issues, covering art, art therapy, society, ethology and clinical practice and placing art therapy in its social and historical context. Drawing on her very considerable personal experience as an art therapist, Kramer illustrates her conviction that art making is central to practice and cautions against making words primary and art secondary in art therapy. Art as Therapy offers a rare insight into the personal development of one of the world's leading art therapists and the development of art therapy as a profession.

It will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in art therapy. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Art as Therapy , please sign up. Lists with This Book.

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