Features

• Set the conditions for creative growth, assess progress, and set goals for therapy
• Use art in individual, group, and family situations, including parent-child pairings, mothers' groups, and adolescent groups
• Work with healthy children and those with disabilities
• Guide parents through art and play
• Talk about art work and encourage art production
• Decode nonverbal messages contained in art and the art-making process
• Use scribbles, drawings, stories, poems, masks, and other methods to facilitate expression
• Understand why and how art therapy works