تمرین هنردرمانی در محله های فقیرنشین درون شهرها: آنسوی ایجاد امید

As fellow human beings, arts therapists and clients are seemingly on the same level: namely people who experience life, including its suffering and blessings. However, in therapeutic settings located in deprived urban environments, the distribution of sadness and economic injustice is not necessarily fairly balanced between these participants as equals. To the contrary, exposure to poverty and racism is often alien to pro- fessionals who aim to facilitate change in slum envi- ronments. I propose that the effect of these differ- ences in socio-economic background between arts therapists and clients upon their respective under- standing of what change means and how it can be brought must be made explicit, particularly when the therapeutic work aims to facilitate “conscientization” in Paolo Freire’s terms ( 1992). I