Art Therapy BC Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
Harm Reduction - Answers rejects all or nothing of AA, meets clients at current stage of
recovery, non-judgmental, reduce risk of harm without rejecting client who is currently using
Edith Kramer - Answers Art as therapy, healing quality is inherent in creative process,
goal of therapist to establish possibility of sublimation (person)
Florence cane - Answers Naumberg's sister, art educator
Margaret Naumberg - Answers Art psychotherapy, dynamically oriented art therapy, influenced
by Jung and Frued (person)
Elinor Ulman - Answers Founder of American Journal of Art Therapy, developed AT assessment
(UPAP)
Edward Adamson - Answers Studio approach- little interference or analysis, book- Art as Healing
(person)
Psychoanalytic Approach - Answers theoretical approach: Frued, Ernst Kris, Heinz Kohut,
defense mechanisms, transference/countertransference
Ernst Kris - Answers Regression in the service of the ego, Book- Psychoanalytic Explorations in
Art (person)
Heinz Kohut - Answers Self psychology, empathetic response from therapist heals clients self,
transmuting internalizations and forming a cohesive self (person)
Self psychology - Answers Views art as a way to relieve pain and tension and build ego strength
(theoretical approach)
Object relations - Answers Mental representations of self and other. Infant's intrapsychic
experience, the structure of its inner world. Also pre-Oedipal
Object relations people - Answers DW Winnicott, Margaret Mahler, Melanie Klein
Winnicott - Answers Pioneersed school of object relations. Transitional space, transitional
object, holding environment, projective scribble (person)
Mahler - Answers Theory of developmental stages of human attachment: normal autism,
normal symbiosis, hatching, rapproachment, separation/individuation(object constancy)
(person)
Klein - Answers Fantasy life of infant- projection and interjection, splitting as a defense (good
mother vs bad mother). Idea then associated with borderline (person)
Psychoanalytic art therapists - Answers Rubin, Robbins, Schaverisn, Linesch, Levick
, Judith Rubin - Answers Child art therapy, open art assessment, framework for freedom (balance
between structure and looseness) (person)
Arthur Robbins - Answers (person) Psycho aesthetics- art = psychological make up of a person
Myra Levick - Answers Art assessment= LECATA, defense mechanisms are used to measure
emotional development of child (person)
Jungian Approach - Answers Archetypal symbols- collective unconscious, active imagination,
mandala for healing and self-actualization (theoretical approach)
Humanistic Approach - Answers Entire person must be considered in treatment. Basic goal- self
-realization and fulfillment. Insists on freedom and responsibility of individual. (theoretical
approach)
Fritz Perls - Answers Gestalt Therapy - focus on here and now. Worked with dreams. Role play
and empty chair techniques. (person)
Eric Berne - Answers Transactional analysis, three ego states: parent, adult, child (person)
Carl rogers - Answers Client centered approach, empathetic understanding of clients ideas,
positive regard (person)
Abraham Maslow - Answers Hierarchy of needs, needs must be met before self actualization.
(person)
Hierarchy of needs - Answers 1. Physiological
2. Safety
3. Belonging and love
4. Esteem
5. Knowing and understanding
6. Aesthetic
7. Self-actualization
Humanistic art therapy people - Answers Janie Rhyne, Bruce Moon, Mala Betensky, Shaun
McNiff, Pat Allen,
Janie Rhyne - Answers Gestalt art therapy, here and now, genuine contact wth client, client
responsible for finding meaning in art, encouraged enacting art through movement, voice,
drama (person)
Bruce moon - Answers Existential art therapy
Harm Reduction - Answers rejects all or nothing of AA, meets clients at current stage of
recovery, non-judgmental, reduce risk of harm without rejecting client who is currently using
Edith Kramer - Answers Art as therapy, healing quality is inherent in creative process,
goal of therapist to establish possibility of sublimation (person)
Florence cane - Answers Naumberg's sister, art educator
Margaret Naumberg - Answers Art psychotherapy, dynamically oriented art therapy, influenced
by Jung and Frued (person)
Elinor Ulman - Answers Founder of American Journal of Art Therapy, developed AT assessment
(UPAP)
Edward Adamson - Answers Studio approach- little interference or analysis, book- Art as Healing
(person)
Psychoanalytic Approach - Answers theoretical approach: Frued, Ernst Kris, Heinz Kohut,
defense mechanisms, transference/countertransference
Ernst Kris - Answers Regression in the service of the ego, Book- Psychoanalytic Explorations in
Art (person)
Heinz Kohut - Answers Self psychology, empathetic response from therapist heals clients self,
transmuting internalizations and forming a cohesive self (person)
Self psychology - Answers Views art as a way to relieve pain and tension and build ego strength
(theoretical approach)
Object relations - Answers Mental representations of self and other. Infant's intrapsychic
experience, the structure of its inner world. Also pre-Oedipal
Object relations people - Answers DW Winnicott, Margaret Mahler, Melanie Klein
Winnicott - Answers Pioneersed school of object relations. Transitional space, transitional
object, holding environment, projective scribble (person)
Mahler - Answers Theory of developmental stages of human attachment: normal autism,
normal symbiosis, hatching, rapproachment, separation/individuation(object constancy)
(person)
Klein - Answers Fantasy life of infant- projection and interjection, splitting as a defense (good
mother vs bad mother). Idea then associated with borderline (person)
Psychoanalytic art therapists - Answers Rubin, Robbins, Schaverisn, Linesch, Levick
, Judith Rubin - Answers Child art therapy, open art assessment, framework for freedom (balance
between structure and looseness) (person)
Arthur Robbins - Answers (person) Psycho aesthetics- art = psychological make up of a person
Myra Levick - Answers Art assessment= LECATA, defense mechanisms are used to measure
emotional development of child (person)
Jungian Approach - Answers Archetypal symbols- collective unconscious, active imagination,
mandala for healing and self-actualization (theoretical approach)
Humanistic Approach - Answers Entire person must be considered in treatment. Basic goal- self
-realization and fulfillment. Insists on freedom and responsibility of individual. (theoretical
approach)
Fritz Perls - Answers Gestalt Therapy - focus on here and now. Worked with dreams. Role play
and empty chair techniques. (person)
Eric Berne - Answers Transactional analysis, three ego states: parent, adult, child (person)
Carl rogers - Answers Client centered approach, empathetic understanding of clients ideas,
positive regard (person)
Abraham Maslow - Answers Hierarchy of needs, needs must be met before self actualization.
(person)
Hierarchy of needs - Answers 1. Physiological
2. Safety
3. Belonging and love
4. Esteem
5. Knowing and understanding
6. Aesthetic
7. Self-actualization
Humanistic art therapy people - Answers Janie Rhyne, Bruce Moon, Mala Betensky, Shaun
McNiff, Pat Allen,
Janie Rhyne - Answers Gestalt art therapy, here and now, genuine contact wth client, client
responsible for finding meaning in art, encouraged enacting art through movement, voice,
drama (person)
Bruce moon - Answers Existential art therapy
