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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS &#124; Health &#124; NHS art therapy for schizophrenia
Government advisers are expected to recommend art therapy on the NHS for people with schizophrenia.
The National Institute of Clinical and Health Excellence (NICE) will promote use of programmes offering music, art and dance therapy for the first time.
Activities include playing musical instruments and creating collages.
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		<title>Creative therapy gets to the roots of all ills</title>
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Creative therapy gets to the roots of all ills
Patients discover the transformative benefits of creativity at arts therapy session. (Photo: Chang Su-ching)Publication Date：12/26/2008       Section：Arts and CultureBy Amber Wu
If mainstream medicine is unable to remedy a patient&#8217;s ills, then a cornucopia of alternative therapies are available for those in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=290&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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Art of healing
Aesthetics and art therapy activities can help young offenders gain a new lease on their lives
STORY BY KARNJARIYA SUKRUNG, PHOTOS BY SOMKID CHAIJITVANIT
The assignment was to create a seal out of a lump of clay. But Pat, a 14-year-old boy, had decided to produce a family of seals. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=288&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art therapy project in Gaza massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Art therapy project to ameliorate devastating psychological affects on children due to Gaza massacre  
Art therapy project to ameliorate devastating psychological affects on children due to Gaza massacre 
07.03.08 &#8211; 12:56
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Palestinian children are routinely subjected to scenes that no adult should have to witness and the psychological affects are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=287&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art Therapy &#124; Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Art Therapy
The Medical Foundation offers art therapy to children and adults. In addition, it also has an Open Studio where adult clients can express thesmelves artistically outside of the therapeutic process. All three aspects of our work are detailed below.
Working with Children
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		<title>Brush on Paint, Swirl in Some Glitter, And Suddenly Everything Looks Better</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Brush on Paint, Swirl in Some Glitter, And Suddenly Everything Looks Better
By Alice Reid (Washington post)Monday, December 31, 2007; B03
&#8220;Pink glitter, please!&#8221; said Michele Pinczuk, eyeing all the artistic possibilities arrayed in containers spread across her hospital bed.
Children&#8217;s Hospital art therapist Heather Stemas produced the desired medium, and Michele finished decorating a tile that will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=285&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>stamford times &#8211; Cared For: The hospital&#8217;s of Fairfield County &#8212; PART III &#8212; An artist helps the medicine goes down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Cared For: The hospital&#8217;s of Fairfield County — PART III — An artist helps the medicine goes down
Lasers produce lines on the side of a patient&#8217;s face as his head is held in place by an immobilization device, the purpose is for aligning exactly the needed area for a scan. PHOTO BY ALEX VON KLEYDORFF
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		<title>The Daily Breeze &#8211; SP gallery reframes art therapy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Megan Bagdonas Staff Writer
Article Launched: 12/13/2007 11:42:54 PM PST
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Harold Plople says modestly that his artwork is just therapy&#8230; (Steve McCrank/ Staff Photographer). Harold Plople is an artist who suffers from delusions. 
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video interviews with art therapists in the Netherlands 

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		<title>Using Crayons to Exorcise Katrina</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 17, 2007
By SHAILA DEWAN
Art Therapy &#8211; New York Times



Trinity Williams, a child displaced by Hurricane Katrina, works with Karla Leopold, an art therapist, above. At right, other work by children at a FEMA trailer park in Baker, La., shows that the trauma of the hurricane has influenced thoughts of home and safety.

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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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The Art of connecting from local to global.

AATA&#8217;s 38th annual conference
						

						
November 14-18, 2007 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

AATA 2007 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

CONFERENCE TRACKS

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		<title>Call for Contributions Educators, practitioners, scholars, allied health</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Call for Contributions Educators, practitioners, scholars, allied health therapists and artists, are invited to make a submission to be part of the exciting, cutting edge international symposium placing the arts at the centre of education for special needs.
 International Symposium: Re-imagining Special Educationthrough Arts Education &#38; Arts Therapy
26-29 July 2008
Melbourne, Australia
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		<title>Drawn in Darfur: Pictures Don’t Lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Could prosecutors use images by Darfur&#8217;s children showing civilians under attack as evidence in a future war crimes trial?
		

By Rebekah Heil in London and Katy Glassborow in The Hague (AR No. 126, 14-Aug-07)
















































Anna Schmitt was in eastern Chad interviewing Sudanese refugees from the Darfur region when the women at a displacement camp gave her some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=268&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An art journey towards health</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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The visual story of an art journey towards healing, that both preceded and accompanied the healing after the suicide of a loved one.
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		<title>For Wounds of the Mind, The Healer&#8217;s Art Is Art</title>
		<link>http://arttherapy.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/for-wounds-of-the-mind-the-healers-art-is-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By RALPH BLUMENTHAL

October 29, 1997

Source: nytimes.com
		
On paper, with paint and pencil, Ibrahima Sory Bah says what he has not been able to say in words, the pictures unleashing long-unspeakable memories of his arrest and torture in Guinea a dozen years ago. An artist and graphic designer who fled his West African homeland and landed in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=258&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The art of healing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ani Buk&#8217;s troubled patients find peace of mind through drawing, painting, and sculpting. by Elaine McArdle
		
http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/summer2006/images_summer2006/buk1.jpg
		
photographs by John Rae

The young couple were recent immigrants from West Africa, relishing their new life in New York City, expecting their first child, and happily sharing in the American Dream. One Friday afternoon, a month before the baby was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=257&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art Therapy &#124; Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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Working with Children

The following is an extract from Art Therapy in Schools: Working with Children who have Experienced Political Violence and Torture; A Booklet for Teachers by MF therapists Debra Kalmanowitz (MA, RATh Arts Therapist) and Sheila Kasabova (MA Counselling Aspects in Teaching and Learning), who work with the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Team.



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		<title>Body Image work in Art therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KarenPolin (art therapist) works with a client experiencing body image distortion often seen in anorexia and bulimia. The 2 minute  video session is telling.

A more elaborate presentation of their global programe address the various dimensions of body image obsession.

A number of books on eating disorders and art therapy can be found here.
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		<title>Internet art therapy research</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kate Collie who is a researcher in art therapy presents an internet application of art therapy in some detail. It is wonderful that my colleagues are now using video to demonstrate what they do.

Kate          Collie, PhD, MFA, ATR, is an artist, art therapist, researcher, and professional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=251&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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