Pioneers in Art Therapy

Penelope P. Orr, Ph.D, ATR-BC

by Sairalyn on September 22, 2010

Her work using The Sims virtual environment for role play scenarios coming soon…

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Judy Weiser, R.Psych., A.T.R.

September 22, 2010

coming soon…

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Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPAT, LPCC

September 22, 2010

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Basia Mosinski, MA, MFA, ATR

September 15, 2010

OFFICE LOCATION Manhattan, NY (Union Square) POPULATION Adolescents, Adults, Children, Elders IN HER WORDS I have worked with many clients who have never held a video camera. Clients who have never edited images and sounds prior to working with me. What I found remarkable was offering them the concept that anything they learned in session [...]

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Brian Austin, MA, ATR

September 15, 2010

OFFICE LOCATION Manhattan, NY IN HIS WORDS After almost two decades as a professional animator (writing, teaching and production) I am busy launching The Animation Project, a NYC-based nonprofit integrating emerging technologies, like video games and 3D computer animation, with art therapy techniques.

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Sairalyn Ansano, BFA, MA, ATR-BC

September 15, 2010

CLINICAL SETTING Hartley House TITLE Creative Arts Director OFFICE LOCATION 413 W46th Street New York, NY 10036 P. 212.246.9885 POPULATION School Aged Students, Adults, Seniors, and Families IN HER WORDS When I began my art therapy internships as an undergraduate student, I myself was not sure how to adapt my knowledge of the creative depths [...]

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Devorah Samet Canter

September 15, 2010

The concept of maintaining ego boundaries may also have played a part in Canter’s (1987; 1989) research with school children and adolescents diagnosed with behavioral and emotional problems. However, Canter attributed her results to the computer’s ability to deliver the right level of success. Thus, in her 1987 and 1989 articles, Canter focused on the [...]

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Peter Hartwich & Rolf Brandecker

September 15, 2010

Hartwich and Brandecker (1997) continued on this theme by focusing on how their patients with schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder responded to painting on the computer as opposed to conventional means. Their trial computer painting program was conducted within the creative art therapy program in the psychiatric unit of a hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. They [...]

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Richard G. Johnson

September 15, 2010

In 1987, Johnson’s first exploration of incorporating computers into his counseling sessions resulted in the opinion that offering children the opportunity to create art on the computer facilitated the therapeutic alliance more rapidly than verbal counseling alone. He and the counselors of the Michigan State University Learning Clinic purchased a graphic table that allowed children [...]

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Shaun McNiff

September 15, 2010

Shaun McNiff (1999) has “always perceived art therapy as the inclusive discipline for…varied media” (p. 197). For this reason, many art therapists have incorporated computers into their spaces. However, they have not all included its therapeutic tools into their repertoire. Some therapists are unwilling to understand or are unable to utilize the computer’s tools to [...]

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