Jeremy Siegel, MD explains Art Seeking on his blog and it’s relationship to art therapy. Here’s a snipet of his recent post More Art Seeking Q & A:
Q. How is this different from the branch of psychotherapy known as art therapy?
A. Art seeking is distinctly different from art therapy. In art therapy you might be [...]
Read how in Chicago, Salamishah and Scheherazade Tillet use art therapy as a preventative measure to teach young women about sexual assault.
Recently, I was listening to the Wise Counsel podcast (available on iTunes or through mentalhelp.net), hosted by Dr. David Van Nuys. The May 15th episode includes an interview with Steven Richfield, PsyD, on the Parent Coach method of working with children, especially those who carry a diagnosis of ADHD and/or Asperger’s. What caught my attention [...]
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, [...]
Carol McCullough-Dieter recently came out with a new website/service called, Find Art Directives, which allows professionals to browse and organize art therapy directives. What a great idea! I checked it out recently, and noticed that the information available on the site is rather sparse, but as people begin using the site and imputing the [...]
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 [...]
Researchers at McGill University have created several online activities called Self Esteem Games, helping people build self confidence and stay on the positive side of life. The games force you to recognize happy faces and/or your own name, creating a positive association to yourself and others in your mind. In other words, the exercises foster [...]
What does tagging, bombing and writing have to do with art therapy? A whole lot, according to Abdallah Ezekiel Rothman LPC, ATR…especially if you work with adolescents.
In 2004, Ezekiel wrote his thesis on the topic of Graffiti Art Therapy while studying at Antioch University in Seattle. His thesis includes two parts- a written research portion [...]
