Art activates our brain to interpret what we see. This reaction shows us that art can play an important part in affecting our brain function.

Our emotions help us to develop our personality, understand important developmental experiences, as well as connect socially with others.

Where there is a need to identify and explain mental health concepts, there is a need to provide helpful and accessible educational content.

Compulsive spending is a cyclical problem. A person spends to alleviate difficult emotions which can also create feelings of shame and regret.

The book validates that trauma is a personal experience and should be viewed within the context of the individual’s experience.

People who are codependent sacrifice their own needs to meet the needs of others and neglect physical, emotional, and psychological needs of their own.

For an established private practice, the client load will be fully established. Plans for growth can be reduced or another therapist could be hired.

Adoption contains various conflicts and art therapy can integrate personal narratives of the individual so they may overcome these conflicts.

The tasks for a growing private practice will need to balance between the needs of a growing client base, as well as finding new clients.

Individuals have bad recurring memories. Art therapy can help reclaim the imagery for people to focus on and use as a vehicle to redirect their attention.

For a new private practice, the client load will be small and therefore most of the tasks will focus on marketing and finding new clients.

This book addresses how the principles and practice of the arts therapies can … inspire social action and bring about social change across the globe.

Loss from abandonment forms a substantial part of a person’s foundation and can impact relationships that thrive on attachment.

Diagnosing fibromyalgia is a complex process as the symptoms experienced are often linked to a multitude of short and long term illnesses.

Planning and preparing your art therapy workshop includes developing guidelines which will cover the what, why, when, and how to deliver your workshop.

Art therapy can help provide a unique space for people with ADHD as they gain control over their environment and the creative process in which they work.