Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources & Resources

Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources & Resources is the thoroughly updated and revised second edition of Judith Rubin’s landmark 1999 text, the first to describe the history of art in both assessment and therapy, and to clarify the differences between artists or teachers who provide “therapeutic” art activities, psychologists or social workers who request drawings, and those who are trained as art therapists to do a kind of work which is similar, but qualitatively different. This new edition contains a DVD-ROM with over 400 still images and 250 edited video clips; an additional chapter describing the work that art therapists do; and new material on education with updated information on standards, ethics, and informing others. Most importantly, however, this book provides a definition of art therapy that contains its history, diversity, challenges, and accomplishments.