AMERICAN ART THERAPY ASSOCIATION MISSION STATEMENT
The American Art Therapy Association, Inc. is an organization of professionals dedicated to the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life-enhancing. Its mission is to serve its members and the general public by providing standards of professional competence and developing and promoting knowledge in and about the field of art therapy.
MULTICULTURAL STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
The Multicultural Committee embraces an inclusive definition of culture. The committee provides information, networking, and mentoring for all art therapists to develop multicultural competence and increase diversity within the American Art Therapy Association.
A brand new online distance learning course called
Fostering Multicultural and Diversity Competence in Art Therapy is now available through the American Art Therapy Association’s Institute for Continuing Education in Art Therapy (ICE/AT).
Fostering Multicultural and Diversity Competence in Art Therapy course, developed by the Multicultural Committee, has just been added to the American Art Therapy Association’s Institute for Continuing Education in Art Therapy (ICE/AT). Multicultural and Diversity Competence in art therapy is a capacity whereby art therapists possess cultural and diversity awareness and knowledge about self and others, and at the same time ensure that this awareness and knowledge is skillfully applied in practice with clients and client groups. Fostering Multicultural and Diversity Competence in Art Therapy is designed to strengthen the identity of art therapists by advancing multicultural and diversity competence as essential to ethical practice and the cornerstone for effective art therapy practice.
The Course learning materials include: the Multicultural Committee Historical Overview, 2011 Art Therapy Multicultural-Diversity Competencies,
Wheel of Diversity in Art Therapy: Pioneers of Color, a documentary film, and more!
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Please click here to read the
Multicultural Bibliography
Please click here to view the
Call for Contributors, Selected Bibliography and Resource List.
