The Routledge International Handbook of Art Therapy Practice

This book offers a snapshot of the international state of the art in art therapy. The range of work included does not come from one school, theoretical approach, or one type of creative practice, but instead shows the inherent ability of the art therapist to see what is present and to adapt, flexibly and creatively, to meet the unique needs of people and contexts.

The chapters are organised under five broad-ranging themes—art therapy across the life cycle, theoretical frameworks, areas of practice, new developments, and policies—and are written by a diverse range of newer voices from countries where art therapy is starting to gain ground as well as a variety of internationally renowned practitioners and academics. The handbook speaks to the breadth and richness in contemporary art therapy practice around the world. The case studies and examples demonstrate the ways in which art therapists are managing the challenges and opportunities in their socio-political context, drawing links to existing art traditions and supportive practices in their culture, and working to address contemporary challenges.

This book is essential for students and professionals of art therapy, drama, dance movement, and music therapy.

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The Routledge International Handbook of Art Therapy Practice

This book offers a snapshot of the international state of the art in art therapy. The range of work included does not come from one school, theoretical approach, or one type of creative practice, but instead shows the inherent ability of the art therapist to see what is present and to adapt, flexibly and creatively, to meet the unique needs of people and contexts.

The chapters are organised under five broad-ranging themes—art therapy across the life cycle, theoretical frameworks, areas of practice, new developments, and policies—and are written by a diverse range of newer voices from countries where art therapy is starting to gain ground as well as a variety of internationally renowned practitioners and academics. The handbook speaks to the breadth and richness in contemporary art therapy practice around the world. The case studies and examples demonstrate the ways in which art therapists are managing the challenges and opportunities in their socio-political context, drawing links to existing art traditions and supportive practices in their culture, and working to address contemporary challenges.

This book is essential for students and professionals of art therapy, drama, dance movement, and music therapy.

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This book offers a snapshot of the international state of the art in art therapy. The range of work included does not come from one school, theoretical approach, or one type of creative practice, but instead shows the inherent ability of the art therapist to see what is present and to adapt, flexibly and creatively, to meet the unique needs of people and contexts.

The chapters are organised under five broad-ranging themes—art therapy across the life cycle, theoretical frameworks, areas of practice, new developments, and policies—and are written by a diverse range of newer voices from countries where art therapy is starting to gain ground as well as a variety of internationally renowned practitioners and academics. The handbook speaks to the breadth and richness in contemporary art therapy practice around the world. The case studies and examples demonstrate the ways in which art therapists are managing the challenges and opportunities in their socio-political context, drawing links to existing art traditions and supportive practices in their culture, and working to address contemporary challenges.

This book is essential for students and professionals of art therapy, drama, dance movement, and music therapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781040705780
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/26/2025
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 688

About the Author

Margaret Hills de Zárate is an art therapist and honorary senior research fellow at the Centre for Applied Social Sciences, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, the United Kingdom. Her most recent publication is Arts Therapies and the Mental Health of Children and Young People with Uwe Hermann, Heather M. Hunter and Salvo Pitruzella. She is also the author of various chapters on cultural issues and migration in art and art therapy. Her research has been mainly conducted in Central and South America.

Diane Waller, OBE, is an emeritus professor of art psychotherapy at Goldsmiths University of London. She has also served as honorary president of the British Association of Art Therapists, former council member (Health and Care Professions Council) and group analytic psychotherapist (UK Council for Psychotherapy). She is also the co-editor (with Sarah Scoble) of Routledge’s International Research in the Arts Therapies series.

Claire Louise Vaculik (née Leyland) is an art therapist and gestalt psychotherapist. She served as the programme director of the MA in integrative arts psychotherapy at IATE/UEL for over a decade, an external examiner for two UK-based art therapy trainings and a lead assessor for the UK Council for Psychotherapy. She was an associate editor of the International Journal of Art Therapy and is the current chair of the British Association of Art Therapists.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the Routledge International Handbook of Art Therapy Practice

Claire Louise Vaculik , Diane Waller and Margaret Hills de Zárate

Part 1.1: Art therapy through the life stages: Infants, latency, adolescence

2. Therapeutic art in the perinatal period

Susan Hogan

3. Early relational intervention through dyadic art therapy with infants and caregivers

V. G. Armstrong

4. Holding the space for teenagers to be, create, and become themselves

Ann Maes and Eef Ameel

5. Art therapy and giftedness: Art therapy with gifted children and preadolescents

Silvana Castellucchio

6. Art therapy in museums for young people with autism: A collaboration between a museum teacher, an art therapist and a special education mentor

Celine Schweizer

Part 1.2 Adults, ageing and older people

7. Art therapy as the basis for a university course in personal development

Dr Knut Omholt

8. The aesthetic moment: Intersubjectivity, intervention and processes of change in art therapy

Karin Dannecker

9. Ruptures, repairs and repetitions: Long-term art psychotherapy with a Forgotten Australian

Julie Green

Part 2: Theoretical Frameworks

10. Creativity and art therapy: Concepts and connections

Todd Lubart and Marion Botella

11. Creative process and modalities of experience: From body presentation to body representation

Mimma Della Cagnoletta

12. Images of art psychotherapy: Towards an ethics of reception

Josée Leclerc

13. Mentalization-based art therapy

Marianne Verfaille

14. Framing the picture: A solution-focused approach to art therapy

Eha Rüütel

15. Revisiting the art therapy open studio: A treatment model for trauma

Siobhán Bereen and Catherine Phillips

16. Art therapy in the hospital context

Carmen Figueroa Rodríguez and Miquel Izuel Currià

17. Outdoor art therapy in Scotland

Katarina Horrox

18. The art of understanding: Exploring the Seven-Step Configuration Analysis method in Art Therapy Practice

Zoltan Vass

19. Artistic and arts-based research in the arts therapies

Gabriele Schmid

20. Ceramics, culture, and art therapy in Spain

Liliana Montoya De La Cruz

21. Rhythm 0: Vulnerability and resistance. The performative artistic process as agent of change

Judith Revers

22. Joint mirror drawing and crossdrawing in art therapy and museums

Unnur Guðrún Óttarsdóttir

23. The mirror line: Creating comic characters in art therapy

Malcy Duff

Part 3: Specific areas of practice and client groups

24. The desert, the image and memory: Art therapy processes with relatives of disappeared Sahrawi people

María Antonia Hidalgo Rubio

25. The establishment of art therapy in Ukraine and developments in conditions of war

Olena Voznesenska

26. Body-focused art psychotherapy to heal trauma for unaccompanied and trafficked young refugees in Scotland

Misa Kanno-Watson

27. Art therapy in people with personality disorders: The ‘powerful experience’, emotion regulation and self-image

Suzanne Haeyen

28. Changes in the formal and iconographic elements of the visual expressions of women who have attempted suicide

Aušra Sebeikaitė

29. Eating disorders and art therapy: Between decoys, realities and clinical practices

Jean-Luc Sudres

30. A powerful art therapy technique for work with couples and its use in therapy and training

Jenia Gheorghieva and Roumen Gheorghiev

31. Psychocybernetic art therapy and its application in research

Sunhee K. Kim

Part 4: Cultural diversity: Development of culturally sensitive art therapy practices, decolonisation of art therapy practice and culturally diverse art forms and practices

32. The intercultural contact zone of art therapy: A U.S. perspective on working across boundaries of difference

Lynn Kapitan

33. Decolonizing art therapy practice through community collaboration: An evolving perspective in Trinidad and Tobago

Sarah Soo Hon

34. Bridging traditions: The role of art therapy in Egypt’s mental health landscape

Sandra El Sabbagh

35. Looking at art therapy through a decolonising lens: Community perspectives on building culturally sensitive ethical practices in India

Oihika Chakrabarti and Aishwarya Dattani

36. Textile arts as a therapeutic and protective intervention

Somayeh Sharifi

37. Untangling the tangled: Malaysian-Chinese art therapy practices

Bee Tin Teoh

38. Journey of art healing in China: Practices, cultural integration, and innovative applications

Yue LI (Lucy) and Ying LI (Coco)

Part 5: New developments in art therapy practice and education

39. The call of the times: Conceptualising socially oriented art therapy in long-term social crises

Ephrat Huss

40. On the violence of a hole and the virtue of re-framing: Trauma and resilience: Preventing and treating vicarious traumatization through art and creative self-care

Irina Katz-Mazilu and Diane Waller OBE

41. Video therapy: Filming in the hospital: Opportunities and challenges when used as a tool in the art therapy space

Marcelo Gonzalez Magnasco and Adriana Farias

42. The museum as a driver of metaphors for reflection and well-being

Marián López Fdz. Cao and Marta Lage de la Rosa

43. Research and application of art therapy in the Chilean training context: Weaving dreams and knowledge

Daniela Gloger Betancourt and Ana Gómez Uriarte

44. Dynamic artwork-based experiential course: A transformative teaching mode that hones emotional transformation in the enactment of psychotherapy

Ofira Honig

45. Studying and practising art therapy in digital space

Pamela Palomba and Axel Rütten

Part 6: Policies: Government directives and social policy; educational policies in different countries; standards of training and practice; review of some international developments; regulation or voluntary systems; barriers to establishing the discipline and profession and openings to establish it

46. The practice and education of art therapy and art psychotherapy in Finland

Mimmu Rankanen

47. The story of art therapy in Latvia: A historical approach

Elina Akmane and Kristīne Mārtinsone

48. Art therapy/psychotherapy in Portugal

Ruy Carvalho

49. Creating a way to professional recognition

Hsiao-Pin Lin

50. Art therapy practice and education in Singapore: Asserting context-specificity

Ronald P.M.H. Lay

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