National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day

The American Art Therapy Association celebrated with more than 150 programs across the country, in recognizing the importance of mental health for children on National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day, May 6, 2010. In communities across the country, art therapists worked with community groups, universities, museums, schools, and hospitals to ‘draw’ attention through Art Action to this important national health need. Click here for information on the 2010 National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day activities across the country.

Global Art Therapy Networking Group

Please join us as we enter into the world of Social Networking. Click on the links below to join us on Facebook, view and participate in our Blog, and to follow us on Twitter!

Global Art Therapy Network Blog .... Twitter . .......Facebook ............ Art Therapy Student Blog.

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Calendar of Events

Click here to view a Calendar of Events You can add your event to our calendar by sending an email with detailed information (to include the name of the event, date, time, location and name and email/phone of a contact person) to mbasham@arttherapy.org.


Grants

Click here for a comprehensive listing of available grants that have been posted to Philanthropy News Digest and other sources.


Latest Resources and Information

In The News:

American Art Therapy Association tracks media coverage related to art therapy worldwide. Through our active communications program, over time we intend to increase coverage about credentialed art therapy, correct coverage that is inaccurate, and showcase the depth of art therapy programs within the Association so as to promote the field appropriately.  Click here to view/search recent media coverage.


Films:

View El Arte es Terapia on CNN for art therapy coverage on the Spanish channel. Go to the Advocacy link for current national news.

 

As Seen Through These Eyes by Hilary Helstein. Opened in NYC and LA in October. Click here to watch the trailer.

Click here to view a CNN report on the role that art therapy plays in health care, featuring American Art Therapy Association Board Member Tracy Councill!

http://www.comcastcreative.com/video/RC_TracysKids_2_CC.wmv

ART THERAPY STUDIO FEATURED ON WVIZ APPLAUSE
Art Therapy Studio was highlighted in a segment on WVIZ's Applause program in January.  
Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this on-air arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews from the studios of WVIZ/PBS ideastream.    Congratulations to everyone involved in the taping! Click here to view the video.


Resources:

FREE ARAS ART AND PSYCHE ONLINE JOURNAL
Receive the ARAS quarterly journal connecting art, culture and depth psychology from a multi-disciplinary and creative perspective.   The journal includes papers from the 2008 Art and Psyche Conference in San Francisco, original artwork, and reviews of books and exhibitions related to art, psyche, and archetype.
Subscribe free of charge by emailing us at arasjournal@aras.org.  Your address will be used solely for this journal.  You may cancel at any time.


Research

Click here to view the Art Therapy Outcome and Single Subject Studies

We hope you will find this listing of art therapy outcome and single subject studies
useful for purposes of research, grantwriting, to demonstrate support for your art therapy
program, and evidence of the effects of art therapy with various client populations.
Listings are grouped primarily by client populations. Abstracts are provided for the two
journals that gave copyright permissions without a fee: Art Therapy: Journal of the
American Art Therapy Association and American Journal of Art Therapy. Abstracts
written or modified by Research Committee members appear for some listings.
Links to the abstracts or articles are provided for all the articles.

Click here for the Art Therapy Research on Treatment of PTSD

American Art Therapy Research Roundtable

American Art Therapy Publications