A form of therapy that uses visual arts to enhance
one’s overall well-being. The arts are used to let go, express, and to release.
Expressive Arts, Creative Arts Therapy and Expressive Therapy, are used in a
therapeutic, rehabilitative, educational, and community setting to foster
holistic health, communication, and expression. People have been using the arts
as tools for healing for many centuries.
The American Art Therapy Association’s Mission
The American Art Therapy Association, Inc. (Association) is an organization of professionals dedicated to the belief that making art is healing and life enhancing. Its mission is to serve its members and the general public by providing standards of professional competence, and developing and promoting knowledge in, and of, the field of art therapy. Adopted April 2008
There is no wrong way in the arts which encourages
the members to be free with self-expression. Expressive Arts is not about
interpreting color or images, and is not necessarily used for diagnosis,
although it can help assess an individual’s needs or progress. The focus is on
the process of making art and exploring what the piece means to the individual
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