1st Edition
Assessment in Art Therapy
Introduction
Andrea Gilroy, Robbin Tipple and Christopher Brown
Part I: Sitting Beside.
Andrea Gilroy
1. What’s Best for Whom? Exploring the Evidence base for assessment in art therapy
Chirstopher Brown
2. Assessment: what does it mean?
Chirstopher Brown
3. Knowing the unknowable: a multidisciplinary approach to postmodern assessment in child art therapy
David Henley
4. Image and process: twin exploration in art therapy assessment
Caroline Case
5. Art-based methods for art therapy assessment
Shaun McNiff
6. The subjects of assessment
Robin Tipple
Part II: Snapshots from the field
Report 1. Assessing a young autistic boy in art therapy private practice
Arnell Etherington
Report 2 An art-based assessment of a young, psychotic male
Rebecca Arnold
Report 3 Assessment of adults with intellectual disabilities and complex health needs
John McCulloch
Report 4 Art therapy assessment of adults in an inpatient forensic setting
Philippa Cronin
Report 5 Art therapy assessment in an adolescent day service
Jane Saotome
Report 6 Assessing the suitability of adult clients in community mental health
Marian Liebmann
Report 7 The challenge of art therapy assessment in bereavement work with children and teens
Laura V. Loumeau-May
Part III: A more distant calculation
7. Nightsea Crossing : assessment for art psychotherapy
Andrew Marshall-Tierney
8. Three Starting Points (3SP): an art-based assessment method
Kim Thomas and Martin Cody
9. The Levick Emotional and Cognitive Art Therapy Assessment (LECATA)
Myra F. Levick
10. Tending to the ‘art’ in art therapy assessment
Linda Gantt
11. Positive art therapy assessment: looking towards positive psychology for new directions in the art therapy evaluation process
Donna Betts
Concluding remarks
Andrea Gilroy, Robbin Tipple and Christopher Brown
Biography
Andrea Gilroy is Emeritus at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Christopher Brown is an Art Therapist in private practice and freelance to organisations.
Robin Tipple, PhD was formerly a lecturer and researcher at Goldsmiths College University of London.
'Using theoretical approaches, formal testing procedures and illustrated clinical examples, the chapters offer a variety of consideration to the different ways of thinking which contribute to understanding the complex activity between art therapist and patient.'
Tessa Dalley, Member of Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), UK.
