Exploring Ethical Dilemmas in Art Therapy: 50 Clinicians From 20 Countries Share Their Stories
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Author: Audrey Di Maria
Publisher: Routledge
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 1138681903
ISBN 13: 978-1138681903
Hardcover:
ISBN 10: 113868189X
ISBN 13: 978-1138681897
Exploring Ethical Dilemmas in Art Therapy: 50 Clinicians From 20 Countries Share Their Stories presents a global collection of first-person accounts detailing the ethical issues that arise during art therapists’ work. Grouped according to themes such as discrimination and inclusion, confidentiality, and scope of practice, chapters by experienced art therapists from 20 different countries explore difficult situations across a variety of practitioner roles, client diagnoses, and cultural contexts. In reflecting upon their own courses of action when faced with these issues, the authors acknowledge missteps as well as successes, allowing readers to learn from their mistakes. Offering a unique presentation centered on diverse vignettes with important lessons and ethical takeaways highlighted throughout, this exciting new volume will be an invaluable resource to all future and current art therapists, as well as to other mental health professionals.
Review
"This book deals with challenges that art therapists often face in their professional life as therapists, as teachers, and as supervisors. For instance, what kind of art therapy can we teach in countries where art therapy does not exist? Is response-art more helpful to the client or to the art therapist? How flexible should we be with disruptive clients? This book offers a helpful analysis of relevant issues, together with the art therapist’s answers and suggestions."
―Paola Luzzatto, PhD, registered art therapist in the UK, USA, and Italy
"This book guides the reader into a deep and wide understanding of ethical dilemmas in art therapy practice. The book is easy to read and shows cultural differences told through clinical experience. It expresses many of the dilemmas that are most often not shared in the field and introduces art therapy methodology from different perspectives in a way where the reader is invited to make personal reflections on specific challenges. It can be an important inspiration to any clinician in the therapeutic field."
―Vibeke Skov, PhD, clinical psychologist and founder of the Art Therapy Institute in Denmark
About the Author
Audrey Di Maria, MA, LCPAT, ATR-BC is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the graduate training program in art therapy at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she has taught since 1978. She has chaired the Education and Publications Committees of the American Art Therapy Association, is a recipient of AATA’s Clinician Award, and was secretary of the Art Therapy Credentials Board during the development of the initial version of its code of ethics.
