Surveyed 29 graduate and undergraduate faculty in art therapy. Found that both graduate and undergraduate programs relied heavily on part-time faculty who do only teaching and do not receive benefits. Found that full-time faculty's duties, in addition to teaching, included research and service requirements. (Author/NB)

Investigated Children's Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS) with 90 children and adolescents, 28 of whom were diagnosed with adjustment disorders. Seven of 23 objective variables of DDS Rating Method significantly discriminated between children currently in therapy and those not in therapy. Of 23 variables, 20 had categorical clusters for children in…

Focuses on group dynamics of multiethnic peoples interacting with installation sculpture by Jean Dubuffet. Identifies those dynamics that become activated when responding to an aesthetic stimulus. Considers resulting behaviors within ethological/phenomenological framework and applied to practice of art therapy. (NB)

The 25th anniversary of the American Art Therapy Association marked the introduction of a new ethics document for art therapists. The issue of what to do with client-made art is one of the most confusing and controversial. The new Ethical Standards for Art Therapists solve some problems, but not others. Encourages more professional discussion of…

Recounts personal experiences concerning art therapy as both a lymphoma patient and an artist. A few selections from two periods in the hospital illustrate physical and emotional pain. (JPS)

Explores some of the factors involving abstract imagery in the work of art-therapy patients and presents examples of abstract imagery produced by patients in an acute-patient psychiatric hospital. Examples illustrate that abstract imagery can serve not only a defensive purpose, but a progressive function as well. (Author/MKA)

Provides theoretical, historical, and professional examination of the art as therapy approach and art psychotherapy. States that responsive art making is helpful in establishing empathic relationships with adolescents, in providing art therapists with an expressive outlet for the potent feelings that arise in the clinical context, and in forming a…

Addresses art therapy for homebound people, giving special attention to the set of needs for this environment; the desired personality traits of the in-home therapist; the structure of the therapeutic relationship; and appropriate art therapy goals. Presents two case studies of home-bound art therapy which demonstrate the complexities and…

Describes a method for using art therapy with adolescents in crisis. The model defines four trauma stages and associated art therapy goals. Presents an example of the model through a case study, including the art therapy approaches and method for assessing the art work and art processes. Proposes that hope is experienced through art and generative…

Discusses the failure of art therapy, as a profession, to integrate feminism and gender issues into art therapy literature and research. Examines whether there are research methodologies that are less gender biased than others and which methods are best suited to art therapy. (SNR)

Compares therapeutic factors in verbal and art group psychotherapy in a psychiatric day-treatment clinic in Israel. Results only partly support the differences between modalities, but do reveal significant differences between participants with only a few interactions between participants and modalities. All therapeutic factors appear in both…

Investigates the themes of 16 family practice residents' art work and their characteristics (age, gender, resident year, undergraduate training location) in relationship to stress. Residents' drawing were linked by common themes of psychological pressure, anxiety, a sense of being overwhelmed, and depression. Evidence of stress was more frequently…

Examines art as a means to understand the physical and emotional loss of miscarriage. "The Secret Club Project," an innovative exhibit featuring 10 women artists' visual responses to miscarriage, is described. Rituals related to pregnancy loss are reviewed, as well as artists' and art therapists' use of the creative process to move…

Art therapy has been used to support the coping skills of patients with various medical illnesses. The purpose of this case study was to examine the usefulness of art therapy in promoting communication and a positive sense of well-being in a hemodialysis patient. The participant was a 57-year-old Caucasian female who had been treated with…

This paper explores findings from the fields of neuropsychology and art therapy as they relate to treating patients with dementia. It explains the biological, physical, and psychological manifestations of dementia, and current treatment modalities. Art therapy has been shown to be beneficial to patients with dementia. Unfortunately, it is the rare…