Art Therapy Observation and Assessment in Clinical Practice: The ArTA Method

✍ Scribed by Ingrid Pénzes

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 143
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book describes ArTA, an evidence-based method for art therapy observation and assessment. This novel method argues the art-making process and art product are related to aspects of mental health. The results of the author’s own research show that observed patterns in material interaction, material experience, and the specific combinations of formal elements of the art product reveal the client’s balance between thinking and feeling, and adaptability. Divided into four sections, the book illustrates this research, theory, and application of the ArTA method using examples and case histories with clear frameworks that give guidance in art therapy observation and assessment. It provides direction for formulating treatment goals and drawing up appropriate treatment interventions. Intended for art therapy students and practicing art therapists, this methodology will challenge readers to rethink the relationship between a client’s interaction with art materials and their mental health.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Endrosements Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
1 ArTA: The Basics
Introduction
1.1 Art Therapy
1.2 The Art Therapy Triangle
1.3 The Context of Art-Making: Coherence of Material, Technique, and Instruction
1.3.1 Art Material
1.3.2 Technique and Tools
1.3.3 Instruction
1.4 Mental Health
1.4.1 Balance
1.4.2 Adaptability
1.5 Neuroanalogous Processes
1.5.1 A Neuroscientific Approach to Health
1.5.2 Analogies Between Neurological Processes and Art-Making
2 ArTA: The Theory
Introduction
2.1 The Evidence Base of ArTA
2.2 A Little History
2.3 ArTA
2.4 Material Interaction
2.4.1 Style of Material Interaction
2.4.2 Patterns of Material Interaction
2.5 Material Experience
2.6 Art Product
2.6.1 Formal Elements
2.6.2 Structure
2.6.3 Variation
2.7 Relationship Between Material Interaction, Material Experience, and Art Product
2.8 The Relationship Between Material Interaction, Material Experience, Art Product, and Mental Health
2.9 Role of Instruction
2.10 Role of Reflection
2.11 Role of the Therapeutic Relationship
2.12 Indication
3 ArTA: The Methodical Application
Introduction
3.1 The ArTA Observation Form
3.2 The Four Steps of ArTA
3.2.1 Step 1: Observing
3.2.2 Step 2: Analyzing
3.2.3 Step 3: Interpreting
3.2.4 Step 4: Formulating
4 ArTA: A Case Description
Introduction
4.1 Case
4.2 Observations During Observation Session 1
4.3 Observations During Observation Session 2
4.4 Observations During Session 3: Accompanying Observation Session 1
4.5 Observations During Session 4: Observation Session 3
4.6 Findings During the Overall Reflection
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Extended Definitions of Formal Elements of Art Products on a Five-Point Scale
Appendix 2: ArTA Observation Form
Index