Assessment in Art Therapy

by Gilroy, Andrea; Tipple, Robin; Brown, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780415567961
• ISBN10: 0415567963
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Assessment in Art Therapygives a unique insight into the diverse contemporary practices that constitute assessment in art therapy, providing an overview of the different approaches employed in Britain and America today. This professional handbookcomprises three main sections. Sitting besideexplores the discursive and the relational in art therapy assessments with adults and children in different settings. Snapshots from the fieldpresents a series of short, practice-based reports which describe art therapists working in private practice, secure settings and community mental health centres. A more distant calculationconsists of chapters that describe the development and use of different kinds of art-based assessment procedures developed on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as different kinds of research about art therapy assessment. Both students and practitioners alike will benefit from the wealth of experience presented in this book, which demonstrates how art therapists think about assessment; the difficulties that arise in art therapy assessment and the importance of developing the theory and practice of art therapy assessment, whilst taking into account the changing demands of systems and institutions.

Author Biography

Andrea Gilroy is Head of the Department of Professional and Community Education at Goldsmiths, University of London. Robin Tipple is Associate Tutor in Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University of London. Christopher Brown is an Art Therapist with Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Tutor in Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. viii
Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Sitting beside	p. 9
What's best for whom? Exploring the evidence base for assessment in art therapy	p. 11
Assessment: what does it mean?	p. 28
Knowing the unknowable: a multidisciplinary approach to postmodern assessment in child art therapy	p. 40
Image and process: twin exploration in art therapy assessment	p. 55
Art-based methods for art therapy assessment	p. 66
The subjects of assessment	p. 81
Snapshots from the field	p. 99
Assessing a young autistic boy in art therapy private practice	p. 101
An art-based assessment of a young, psychotic male	p. 106
Assessment of adults with intellectual disabilities and complex health needs	p. 111
Art therapy assessment of adults in an inpatient forensic setting	p. 116
Art therapy assessment in an adolescent day service	p. 120
Assessing the suitability of adult clients in community mental health	p. 125
The challenge of art therapy assessment in bereavement work with children and teens	p. 130
A more distant calculation	p. 137
Nightsea Crossing: assessment for art psychotherapy	p. 139
Three Starting Points (3SP): an art-based assessment method	p. 153
The Levick Emotional and Cognitive Art Therapy Assessment (LECATA)	p. 169
Tending to the 'art' in art therapy assessment	p. 189
Positive art therapy assessment: looking towards positive psychology for new directions in the art therapy evaluation process	p. 203
Concluding remarks	p. 219
Index	p. 225
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