The art therapists' primer : a clinical guide to writing assessments, diagnosis, and treatment / edited by Ellen G. Horovitz, PH.D., ATR-BC, LCAT, RYT 500, C-IAYT.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Art therapy is a mental health profession in which patients create artwork in order to explore their feelings, express emotions surrounding conflicts, stress and traumas, to foster self-awareness, manage dysfunctional behaviors and addictions, develop social skills, develop healthy coping strategies, and express one's emotions surrounding anxiety. In addition, art therapy helps the patient increase self-esteem to restore his or her level of functioning and sense of personal well-being. Doctor Ellen G. Horovitz shares over 40 years of experience as she transliterates evidence-based art therapy into medical terminology. This revised and updated Third Edition spells out the how-to's behind producing art therapy assessments, process notes, significant sessions, objectives and modalities, termination summaries and internet-based assessments into translatable documentation, designed to dovetail within an interdisciplinary medical model. This step-by-step methodology fashions these reports, places art therapy on equal footing with all mental health workers and generates records, which serves as points of departure for future practitioners. This text is a teaching tool that lays a foundation to enhance pertinent skills that are important to a practice, including the armament to write up clinically-based reports that will serve as a model for the field. Additionally, the practitioner is offered sample formats, legends and abbreviations of clinical and psychiatric terms, guidelines for recordable events, instructions of writing up objectives, modalities, and treatment goals as well as training on composing progress versus process notes. The Appendices provides a wealth of information and forms to use in a practice. This book will serve as a companion guide for every art therapist in creating clinical reports on patients to aid their trajectory towards wellness, recovery and above all, health"--

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