Happy Creative Arts Therapies Week!

Happy Creative Arts Therapies Week!

Creative Arts Therapies Week is always the 3rd week of March, celebrating art therapy, music therapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, and poetry therapy.

The National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations (NCCATA) celebrates these CATs all year long:

https://www.nccata.org/about

Here is a systematic review looking at how the Creative Arts Therapies help with stress management and prevention:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5836011/

Did you know there is an international credential that creative arts therapists can obtain?

The REAT® credential identifies professionals who integrate more than one form of the creative arts therapies together in mental health treatment. Registered Expressive Arts Therapists are credentialed by the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association.

https://www.ieata.org/what-is-reat/

Did you know that art therapy developed simultaneously in America and Britain in the 1940s?

Great Britain also acknowledges the creative arts therapies, and here is a great explanation about them and their practice:

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/drugs-and-treatments/talking-therapy-and-counselling/arts-and-creative-therapies/

Fellow art therapist Lauren Nicholson has created stickers for Creative Arts Therapists in honor or CATs week:

Find Lauren's Art Therapist products here.

Thank you for celebrating Creative Arts Therapies Week with me!

Expressive Therapies Summit 2013

I had the privilege of going to the weekend conference of both the Expressive Arts Therapies as Medicine and the first Mid-Atlantic Play Therapy Training Institute during April 12-14, 2013.  It was a wonderful mixture of not only art therapy, but also dance/movement, play, music, drama therapies as well.  The first day was a symposium where each modality was introduced to the attendees.  The second and third days had a wide variety of offerings, and the panels I attended were very helpful for my particular line of work.  Even better, this was a local conference for me, 15 minutes from home/work, though it was stated that people from 36 states and 6 countries were in attendance.  If you are an art therapist or in a creative arts therapy field, I would recommend this as a training to look into and to plan attending.  It was coordinated by Barry Cohen, ATR-BC and chaired/created by Judith Rubin, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM and Eliana Gil, PhD, APT-S, ATR, LMFT.  Next year's training is slated for April 4-6, 2014.