05/26/10
Developed by students at the University of Michigan, the Scribble is a digital animation pad with a built in camera, allowing for stop motion capabilities. Can’t wait for something like this (or an iPad ap) to become available for purchase. How cool would this be in an art therapy session!
Tags: animation, digital, portable, stop motion
05/24/10
Check out the lastest version of FUSION, the free online publication by the Art Therapy Alliance and the IATO. In this issue:
Introducing: Art Therapy Without Borders, Inc.
Art Therapy Alliance-IATO Updates, News, Resources
Professional Identity: Considerations for Art Therapy
Art Therapy Research: Call for Participants & Information
Art Therapy Alliance Subgroups on LinkedIn
International Art Therapy Organization Online Resources
Combat Paper [...]
Tags: art journal, art therapy, Art Therapy Alliance, Art Therapy without Borders, Children, fusion, IATO, online resources, professional identity, research
05/21/10
Thanks to Sara Windrem, who brought this article to my attention.
Tags: art making, bangkok, cancer, Children, medical
05/19/10
I recenlty listened to a telephone seminar by Karyn Harvey, PhD, regarding positive identity development with people with intellectual disabilities. Based on positive psychology (the work of Seligman) and Erikson, Karyn offers a wonderful treatment meathod that can easily be meshed into the Recovery Model, as well as more “traditional” models used with DD clients, [...]
Tags: Developmental Disability, erikson, happiness, intellectual disability, nadd, positive identity, seligman
05/11/10
Below is an email conversation between a reader, Lynn, and I:
Hi Liz,
I stumbled upon your blog as I’m debating whether to go back to school for art therapy. I basically have a week or so to put my application together in order to have a shot of starting grad school again this fall.
I have [...]
Tags: art therapy, being an art therapist, career change, school, second career
05/08/10
Tags: artwork, autism, savant
05/07/10
From Pascale Godbout, a Montreal based art therapist with the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada:
Inspired from the program in New York, Meet me at MoMA, last fall we started a pilot project of monthly visits adapted for people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers, at the Musée des beaux arts de Montréal (Montreal museum of fine arts). [...]
Tags: Alzheimer's/Dementia, art making, MoMA, montreal, museum