Art Therapy Assessment (555)

This course will introduce the fundamentals of art therapy/art-based assessment tools and procedures that can be used as a component of art therapy evaluations.  Included will be the fundamentals of graphic development, selections of assessment tools, reliability and validity, documentation, and formulation of treatment goals and objectives.  Understanding how psychological health and cultural issues are manifested in the art process and product will be examined.  Legal and ethical issues regarding art therapy evaluations will be discussed.  Students will practice administering a variety of assessment tools and evaluate the results and discuss how the images illustrate participants strengths and approaches to life tasks from an Adlerian perspective.