Itinerant Art Therapy: An Educational Model for Community Outreach Therapeutic Service

Publication date: Available online 29 September 2017 Source:The Arts in Psychotherapy Author(s): Lisa Furman As a practical teaching model, community-based itinerant art therapy provides myriad opportunities for direct service delivery to clients and unique service learning for students. This paper will explore an inexpensive, creative treatment model affiliated with a graduate program that provides short-term mobile art therapy to various populations in and around a large city. This model of community outreach has three notable benefits: first, strengthening connections between the graduate art therapy program and the community; second, allowing students to have direct contact with a unique client population that is different from the practicum experience; and third, providing valuable short-term art therapy, free of charge, to need-based community programs.
Source: Arts in Psychotherapy - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research