Art Therapy Quiz 1 with Accurate
Solutions
Art is a Container - ANS-quote 1
Art interrupts our way of seeing. We see from a new angle and reassess what we
thought we knew. - ANS-Roger Arguile
Art - ANS-Is and has been the language of humanity from the beginning of man's
marked history
Has been used for communication throughout our timeline
Has given evidence of man's existence
Has held the truths and secrets of man
Has marked man's rise and fall
What is an Art Therapist? - ANS-The art therapist is a specialist who combines the
qualification of being a competent artist with specialized skills in the field of
psychotherapy and education.
Art as Therapy - ANS-Kramer
Art Psychotherapy - ANS-Naumberg
Two Basic elements - ANS-Art itself has a healing nature
All humans have an ability to create with art media
Three way system of interchange - ANS-Client -> Therapist -> Art Object
Key Points - ANS--Art Therapy provides the visual for the client's life, trauma, fears,
successes, ideas, thoughts, beliefs, history, experiences and reality.
-Art Therapy provides a means to remove what is inside in a metaphorical and tangible
way in order to allow processing, distance and healing.
The Client's art - ANS-Art materials
Art Process
Art Object
Client
Teaching happens in art therapy - ANS-1. Clients need to understand HOW to use a
material or manipulate tools
-If art therapists don't know art and have their own technical skills, they are not able to
adequately help clients in this way
, -The result is frustration that is unnecessary
2. The teaching has a direct impact on the client's therapy
Sublimation in art therapy - ANS-Understanding gained through the art expression so
that one negative or unacceptable impulse, action, or idealization is transformed into a
more appropriate or socially acceptable response or behavior - - the ultimate goal being
permanent of one behavior for another
The INTENT - ANS-Remember the goal...
Art therapists - ANS-Use a clinical eye and an attuned ear in sessions, individual, group,
and family
Art therapy groups - self in relation to others
Art education class - collective learning skills
Distinction from art lesson - ANS-Sometimes are very specific and are obviously
therapeutic
Other times they may be more about the experience of art making as a TOOL to use
beyond sessions.
This may feel less therapeutic but the art therapists GOAL in this has an INTENTION
beyond making.
Art Therapist is the choice - ANS-Remember the GOAL...
The INTENT
When the need is for psychological understanding, social or emotional expression,
interpersonal and intrapsychic dynamics,
Occupational Therapy - ANS-life skills or activity based ++ Task analysis
Recreational and activity - ANS-instruction and introduction to activities to use in life for
self management and self-esteem
Art in Psychotherapy - ANS-Use projective drawing series adjunctively and in
assessment to support their clinical work
DDS - Barry Cohen
HTP
HFD
Capitalize on the ability of imagery to bypass defenses
Creative therapies - ANS-The actual modalities of the arts
Rooted in various arts
Rooted in theories on creativity
Expressive Therapies - ANS-Genuine integration of creative arts therapies use in a
psychotherapeutic and/or counseling session
Multi-modal
Solutions
Art is a Container - ANS-quote 1
Art interrupts our way of seeing. We see from a new angle and reassess what we
thought we knew. - ANS-Roger Arguile
Art - ANS-Is and has been the language of humanity from the beginning of man's
marked history
Has been used for communication throughout our timeline
Has given evidence of man's existence
Has held the truths and secrets of man
Has marked man's rise and fall
What is an Art Therapist? - ANS-The art therapist is a specialist who combines the
qualification of being a competent artist with specialized skills in the field of
psychotherapy and education.
Art as Therapy - ANS-Kramer
Art Psychotherapy - ANS-Naumberg
Two Basic elements - ANS-Art itself has a healing nature
All humans have an ability to create with art media
Three way system of interchange - ANS-Client -> Therapist -> Art Object
Key Points - ANS--Art Therapy provides the visual for the client's life, trauma, fears,
successes, ideas, thoughts, beliefs, history, experiences and reality.
-Art Therapy provides a means to remove what is inside in a metaphorical and tangible
way in order to allow processing, distance and healing.
The Client's art - ANS-Art materials
Art Process
Art Object
Client
Teaching happens in art therapy - ANS-1. Clients need to understand HOW to use a
material or manipulate tools
-If art therapists don't know art and have their own technical skills, they are not able to
adequately help clients in this way
, -The result is frustration that is unnecessary
2. The teaching has a direct impact on the client's therapy
Sublimation in art therapy - ANS-Understanding gained through the art expression so
that one negative or unacceptable impulse, action, or idealization is transformed into a
more appropriate or socially acceptable response or behavior - - the ultimate goal being
permanent of one behavior for another
The INTENT - ANS-Remember the goal...
Art therapists - ANS-Use a clinical eye and an attuned ear in sessions, individual, group,
and family
Art therapy groups - self in relation to others
Art education class - collective learning skills
Distinction from art lesson - ANS-Sometimes are very specific and are obviously
therapeutic
Other times they may be more about the experience of art making as a TOOL to use
beyond sessions.
This may feel less therapeutic but the art therapists GOAL in this has an INTENTION
beyond making.
Art Therapist is the choice - ANS-Remember the GOAL...
The INTENT
When the need is for psychological understanding, social or emotional expression,
interpersonal and intrapsychic dynamics,
Occupational Therapy - ANS-life skills or activity based ++ Task analysis
Recreational and activity - ANS-instruction and introduction to activities to use in life for
self management and self-esteem
Art in Psychotherapy - ANS-Use projective drawing series adjunctively and in
assessment to support their clinical work
DDS - Barry Cohen
HTP
HFD
Capitalize on the ability of imagery to bypass defenses
Creative therapies - ANS-The actual modalities of the arts
Rooted in various arts
Rooted in theories on creativity
Expressive Therapies - ANS-Genuine integration of creative arts therapies use in a
psychotherapeutic and/or counseling session
Multi-modal
