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Interactive Art Therapy: No Talent Required Projects (Haworth Practical Practice in Mental Health)

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The title is very misleading. When I saw Interactive Art Therapy, I thought I was getting a book that was just that: "interactive" "art" "therapy". I liked that it had a subtitle - "No talent required" because most of my therapy clients do not consider themselves to be artists. I was hoping for useful ideas that would help people to express in art what they find difficult to express in words.

But this book is all about the therapist; what the therapist does to structure the client. This is NOT art therapy in any sense of those words.
While there are useful suggestions in here that might work in some settings it is appallingly misleading to call this an "Art Therapy" Book.
How unfortunate.

This book gives some useful suggestion for clients that are 'process' oriented. It is not helpful for most at risk teens who only attend 10 group counseling sessions.