Author(s): Harriet Wadeson

Art & Creative Therapies

Art therapists use the creative process to help their clients increase insight and judgment and work through traumatic experiences. In this long-awaited revision of the definitive and best-selling text on art therapy, Harriet Wadeson, a pioneer in the field, addresses the clinical considerations, education, history, and application of art therapy. The new edition includes new chapters on trauma, multicultural considerations, and substance abuse. Art therapists are provided with more than two hundred illustrations appear in the text and an accompanying CD-ROM with full-color illustrations not included in the book.

About the author:
Harriet Wadeson, PhD, LCSW, ATR-BC, HLM, established and directed the Art Therapy Graduate Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago for twenty-three years. She is the author of six books on art therapy and over seventy articles in professional journals. She is an Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA), the profession's highest honor, and has been awarded a Resolution of Commendation from the Illinois State Legislature, as well as numerous awards for her art, research, and scientific exhibits. In addition to holding many offices on the AATA's Executive Board, she is a past associate editor of Art Therapy, the journal of the AATA. She is a frequent international guest lecturer and currently heads the Art Therapy Program at Northwestern University.