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The diagram first appeared in Imagery and Visual Expression in Therapy by Vija B. Lusebrink (1990). [ 1] The Expressive Therapies Continuum ( ETC) is a model of creative functioning [ 2] used in the field of art therapy that is applicable to creative processes both within and outside of an expressive therapeutic setting. [ 3]
An art therapist watches over a person with mental illness during an art therapy workshop in Senegal. Art therapy is a distinct discipline that incorporates creative methods of expression through visual art media. Art therapy, as a creative arts therapy profession, originated in the fields of art and psychotherapy and may vary in definition.
Frances E. Anderson's father was a preacher. She attended a prep school in her childhood. She stated in the book Architects of art therapy: Memoirs and life stories that her sole friend from childhood died in her eighth-grade year. [2] She went on to study art therapy at college.
Florence was born in 1882 to Max and Theresa Naumberg in 1882 in New York City. She was the second oldest of four children, and was described as having an outgoing and lively disposition. Her sister Margaret Naumburg was a pioneer of American art therapy. [ 1] Growing up, Cane was exposed to bad art instruction, which inspired her to become an ...
Janie Lee Rhyne (August 14, 1913 – March 1, 1995) [ 1] was a pioneer in art therapy who used art as expression and communication. [ 2] She was also a pioneer of Gestalt art therapy, which integrated Gestalt therapy and art therapy. She encouraged clients themselves to interpret and express their feelings and emotions from art works.
The American Art Therapy Association ( AATA) is a U.S. not-for-profit 501 (c) (3), non-partisan national professional association of approximately 5,000 practicing art therapy professionals, including students, educators, and related practitioners in the field of art therapy based in Alexandria, Virginia. It establishes criteria for training ...
Harriet Claire Wadeson Ph.D., LCSW, ATR-BC, HLM (January 9, 1931 – January 26, 2016) was a pioneer in the art therapy profession, as well as an accomplished author, researcher, and educator, who established and directed the Art Therapy Graduate Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Art Therapy Certificate Program at Northwestern University where she taught up to her passing.
Don Jones (arts) Don Jones (March 15, 1923 – January 28, 2015) was an American artist and art therapist, fourth American Art Therapy Association (AATA) President, Honorary Life Member of AATA, and one of five founders of the American Art Therapy Association. [ 1][ 2]