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ERIC Number: EJ682591
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Mar
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0742-1656
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The Invisible Veil: Changing Paradigms in the Art Therapy Profession
Talwar, Savneet; Iyer, Jayashree; Doby-Copeland, Cheryl
Art Therapy Journal of the American Art Therapy Assoc, v21 n1 p 44-48 Mar 2004
According to Sue and Sue (1999), the invisible veil is a worldview which affects all individuals as products of cultural conditioning and which operates outside the level of conscious awareness. Further, they state that the "values, assumptions, beliefs, and practices of our society are structured in a manner as to serve only one narrow segment of the population" (p. 31). Given this sense of haze or dysconsciousness (Ponterotto, Casas, Suzuki, & Alexander, 2001) and ethnocentrism, it becomes imperative for art therapy to revisit its cultural and social identities to become more inclusive. The incidents of racist attacks on individuals of visible racial ethnic groups and the changing demographics of the United States are forcing art therapy to address issues of diversity. These include culture, race or ethnicity, gender, religion, historical experiences within the dominant culture, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, education, political views, lifestyle, and geographic regions within the profession. Furthermore, while the fields of social work and counseling have greatly improved their recruitment of minority students and staff, minority numbers have not changed in art therapy (Boston, Doby-Copeland, & Short, 2001). The goal of this article is to examine how collective biases, beliefs, and values have been masked and how they continue to impact educational programs.
American Art Therapy Association, Inc. 1202 Allanson Road, Mundelein, Illinois, 60060-3808.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: American Art Therapy Association, Towson, MD.
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