Art Therapy Around the World #5

Read a Brief article on how a Madoff victim uses art therapy.
British actor uses art therapy to tackle drug addiction.
In Napa Valley California, Aldea uses art therapy calendar to raise funds and awareness of art therapy. Read about it here.
Art therapy can improve the Quality of life for Alzheimer’s patients.
Art and music therapy are at [...]

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Money versus Psychotherapy

A recent article on Science Daily, Psychological Therapy 32 Times More Cost Effective at Increasing Happiness Than Money.

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2009 AATA Conference #2

I’m sitting in the Salt Lake City airport for the next 3 hours (layover) and have access to free wifi. I thought about maybe watching some tv, but then I remembered how busy I was over the past few days, causing me to neglect to discuss the AATA conference since Thursday. I actually got more [...]

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The Healthy Eating Disorder

Of course this is not in the DSM, but perhaps it will be one day. Read a small article about Orthorexia Nervosa here.

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2009 AATA Conference

The planned meet up yesterday by the IATO (International Art Therapy Organization) and the Art Therapy Alliance at the Pyramid Bar in the Fairmont Hotel was a success! Lots of schmoozing, eating and drinking. More events by these two groups have been organized for tonight and the rest of the conference.
Thank you Cathy and [...]

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Spotlight on Judy Weiser

Judy Wieser R.Psyc, ATR is a pioneer of PhotoTherapy, an art therapy technique that unfortunately too many art therapists don’t know about or understand (and she’s a fellow Canadian!). Ginger Poole from the Digital Art Therapy Group on LinkedIn conducted a brief written interview with Judy about PhotoTherapy. Judy discusses her techniques along with why [...]

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Robots That Care

Maja Mataric, a professor at USC, has put together a research team to develop robots who can help people in need of physical rehabilitation, for example, after a stroke, as well as social robots.
Read about it in The New Yorker.

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Embodied Learning

Ginger Poole posted this on LinkedIn through the Digital Art Therapy group. If you are in contact with the people involved in the Embodied Learning project, please contact Ginger. She is interested in conducting art therapy research with this technology.

SMALLab @ Arizona State University – 2009 from aisling kelliher on Vimeo.

This is so exciting! It [...]

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I can’t keep up with these guys!

The International Art Therapy Organization and the Art Therapy Alliance have come together once again to create a digital media experiment for all of us to participate in via Polyvore. The title of this piece is art, peace and sustainability.
Read more about it on Cathy Malchiodi’s Psychology Today blog.

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Trauma and Children Blog

Cathy Malchiodi has started a new blog affiliated with the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children, TLC.
Cathy also has the #3 blog on Psychology Today website, entitled The Healing Arts. Check out her latest post here.

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