Keeping Art in Art Therapy: Maintaining, Differentiating, and Celebrating Professional Identity (NY-PP6164)
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Bethany Altschwager, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT
Bethany Altschwager is licensed art therapist working in New York. Building on her background in arts education her clinical experience includes art therapy with children, adolescents, adults, and families in school, after-school, clubhouse, and psychiatric settings.
As the profession has expanded, art therapists find themselves in settings where their role is unclear. Do you call yourself a psychotherapist, teacher, group facilitator, or perhaps all of the above? This presentation explores the question of identity and argues for differentiating and celebrating the artist identity in art therapy.