Clients who self-harm can use art therapy as a process of expression through building tangible forms of personally held thoughts and emotions.

In this viewpoint the author makes a case for developing a clear and concise definition of art therapy that can be adopted by art therapists working across a spectrum of theoretical frameworks.

Research indicates that 1 in 10 women may experience depressive symptoms during the postpartum period. Many more will experience a spectrum of negative emotions during this period.

Finding new clients can be stressful as you need to undertake some marketing techniques with a business mindset. This requires a sales orientated mindset to market your business to the public.

Your art therapy space should serve your purposes as well as your clients to be able to access art products, easily clean up, and allow enough space for complex projects if necessary.

Index cards can be used as a passive tool where the client uses a prompt included on the card, or index cards can be more active where the client uses the card itself to create their own artwork.

To understand self requires an exploration of social influences, personal experience and the effect of relationships when an individual’s personality is being developed.

The use of practice management software has become increasingly popular over the past few years and there has been an influx of new software providers releasing practice management software.

Both shame and guilt are linked with judgment about ourselves and from others. To combat our own feelings of judgment, we need to develop the ability to extend compassion to ourselves.

Psychoeducation encompasses a wide range of activities that educates your client about their psychological experiences and the avenues of therapeutic treatment available to them.

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Fatigue is considered as a diminished physical or mental capacity. As fatigue develops, an individual is likely to make errors of judgment due to the disruption of attention that fatigue causes.

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Art therapy can play an integral part in addressing difficult experiences by expression of emotions surrounding body image, self-esteem, and overall mood.

Podcasts have become increasingly popular in recent years and as a result it means specific niches are becoming defined with more indepth conversation occuring around each niche.

Art therapy is beneficial to many clients because of it’s ability to bypass a verbal focus on therapy and instead focus therapeutic attention to emotional experiences and expression.