هنر درمانی در OZ: گزارش از استرالیا

Pergamon The Arts tn Psychotherapy. Vol. 23. No. I, pp. 61-67. 1996 Copyright 0 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 01974556196 $15.00 + .OO SSDI 0197-4556(95)00045-3 REFLECTIONS ART THERAPY IN OZ: REPORT FROM AUSTRALIA MICHAEL CAMPANELLI, EdD, LSW, A.T.R. and FRANCES F. KAPLAN, DA, A.T.R.* We are American art therapists currently teaching in the first art therapy master’s program to be estab- lished in Australia. The aim of this report is to de- scribe, from our perspective, the development and present status of art therapy in Australia, introducing the reader to information about its history, its national association and its current trends in training and prac- tice. Also included is a comparison between Austra- lian and American art therapy that highlights the unique features of Australian art therapy and its po- tential to offer a distinctive contribution to the art therapy field as a whole. In order to bring to life the adventurous quality of working in this part of the world and to give the reader a sense of “being there,” we have interwoven persona1 impressions in our sep- arate voices throughout the factual information of the text