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Book Review: Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersections edited by Savneet K. Talwar (2019
Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersections edited by Savneet K. Talwar (2019), Routledge Books, New York: NY, 218 pp, black &...
Nadine Cohen, Ed.S., NCSP, ATR
Mar 26, 2019
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Missing the point
I am a white, queer, nonbinary trans music therapist. The artwork shared from this project emerged from a collaboration with a cis artist...
Maevon Gumble
Feb 3, 2019
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We will not be erased
Art by Sophie Labelle (Assigned Male Comics) I am a white, queer, middle class, nondisabled settler on Coast Salish land in the United...
Victoria Fansler
Feb 3, 2019
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Embodied resilience: Afro-Caribbean dance as an intervention for the healing of trauma in dance move
Photo credit: Nancy Herard-Marshall Colonization, chattel slavery, genocide, religious, and racial persecution of Africans and their...
Nancy Hérard-Marshall and Maria E. Rivera
Feb 1, 2019
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Marx and dramatherapy pedagogy
There are some obvious ways in which we might connect Marxist ideas with Dramatherapy. Marxism is a theory of social change; it is a...
Anna Seymour and Pete Holloway
Jan 7, 2019
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A zine about the first critical pedagogy conference
After attending the Critical Pedagogy in the Arts Therapies Conference, students in the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Art...
Students at SIUE Art Therapy
Jan 3, 2019
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The first critical pedagogy conference: A photo essay
Clifford R. Joseph, age 96, receives the inaugural Cliff Joseph Award and honorarium given by the CPAT think tank in recognition of an...
Leah Gipson
Dec 22, 2018
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Working between cultures: The drama therapy internship experience of an American-born Chinese Gradua
Photo credit: Jonas Verstuyft The NYU Program in Drama Therapy has, for many years, maintained a clinical internship site at Hamilton...
Lantie Tom and Maria Hodermarska
Nov 15, 2018
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The Trouble With the Word 'Client'
How else can we conceive of caring relationships that retain the fullest expression of dignity and partnership for the people involved?...
Nisha Sajnani
Oct 1, 2018
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Creating and Implementing our own Citation Challenge in the Creative Arts Therapies
Artist: Yasmine Awais. untitled (Medicare Bridge). Magazine collage & string. 25 x 29 cm While scholars and practitioners have argued...
Yasmine J. Awais
Sep 11, 2018
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Juliana Trujillo: Communitas
Juliana Trujilllo, MPS, LCAT is an artist and creative arts therapist living in New York City. Born in Medellin, Colombia Juliana and her...
Curated by Sean Plunkett, CATS of Color
Aug 3, 2018
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Alternative facts: Reflections on a critical arts-based project and co-teaching in graduate level mu
Teaching clinical competencies while integrating real-world, social justice issues around power, privilege, and oppression in society is...
Rebecca Zarate & Nancy Beardall
Jul 30, 2018
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A teacher and student reflect upon ablesim in the academy through poetizing theory
Ableism, like all other social constructions, is a limitation or denial of personhood by one group over another restricting access to the...
Maria Hodermarska and Veronica Filson
Jul 1, 2018
193 views
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