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art therapist, a human service professional who uses art media and images, the creative process, and client responses to artwork in order to assess, treat, and rehabilitate patients with mental, emotional, physical, or developmental disorders. Through art, the therapist attempts to help the client access and express memories, trauma, and psychic conflict often not easily reached with words. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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She agrees to help out because as an art therapist for the mentally disturbed and familiarity with the neighborhood, she might have insights that Beverly missed. Craft workshops include a ceramics program lead by an art therapist and a nurse who have started their own business, as well as patients designing and making their own bath soap and body gel. becoming less concerned with outer appearances and events and more absorbed in internal reflection" according to art therapist Susan Spaniol in an editorial in Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. |
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