Assessment in art therapy

Andrea Gilroy, Robin Tipple, Christopher Brown

"<EM>Assessment in Art Therapy</EM> gives 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 <EM>handbook</EM> comprises three main sections. <EM>Sitting beside</EM> explores the discursive and the relational in art therapy assessments with adults and children in different settings. <EM>Snapshots from the field</EM> presents a series of short, practice-based reports which describe art therapists working in private practice, secure settings and community mental health centres. <EM>A more distant calculation</EM> consists 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....