Supplies
What is a 3-d material that may be used during a session to help reduce stress, similar to a stress ball?
Clay
What is the name of the directive/intervention used for client's to release spontaneous images from the unconscious and encourage free association?
(Hint: Margaret Naumburg used this directive. Florence Cane used this to encourage creativity in children. This directive is associated with psychoanalytic approach.)
Scribble Drawing.
What approach believes creativity is life-enhancing as well as person-centered?
(Hint: it uses Gestalt, person-centered, and existential approach).
Humanistic Approach
True or False: Art therapists can disclose confidential information without the client’s explicit written consent if mandated by law or a court order.
True. (AATA ethical code 2.1.4).
Who is "the Mother of Art Therapy?"
(hint: Founded Walden school with her sister Florence Cane? Also, client's free associations were key to understanding images they created.)
Margaret Naumburg
What is a supply that creates bold lines on paper can be blended by using the oil from our fingers.
Oil Pastels
What directive helps assist clients in understanding generational and intergenerational influences and heritage?
(Hint: it can be a tangible and graphic representation of complex family patterns).
Genograms.
What approach combines other approaches and other creative art forms to provide effective therapy that best fits the client's needs?
Eclectic Approach.
(may also accept Integrative Approach).
True or False: Art therapists shall provide clients with contact information for the Art Therapy Credentials Board.
True. (AATA ethical code 1.1.10).
Which pioneer was interested in visual symbols in dreams and art?
Carl Jung
What material can be soft chalky color, very loose and expressive
Chalk Pastels
What assessment is useful in evaluating coping ability and resourcefulness?
(Hint: it uses the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale to identify mental health symptoms and progress in art therapy.)
A Person Picking an Apple From a Tree (PPAT).
What approach is strongly linked to the idea that spontaneous art expression provides access to the unconscious?
(Hint: a therapist's role is to facilitate an interpersonal relationship that encourages the individual to create spontaneous images and discover personal meaning in one's expressions.)
Psychoanalytic Approach
True or False: Art therapists shall assess, treat, or advise only in those cases in which they are competent as determined by their education, training, and experience.
True. (AATA ethical code 1.2.3)
Who was the "father of modern psychology?"
Hint: They believe art is closer to unconscious because images come before words.
Sigmund Freud
What material is fast drying water based paint that has heavier body than tempera?
Acrylic Paint
What assessment is useful with hearing-impaired children, stroke patients. and others with learning disabilities or emotional disturbances?
(Hint: the assessment assesses cognitive skills that often escape detection on verbal tests of intelligence or achievement.)
The Silver Drawing Test.
What approach offers the experience of free choice and opportunity to make sense of what often seems meaningless?
(Hint: process of art making within therapeutic relationship serves as a metaphor for existential dilemmas and art making may lead person toward a state of mindfulness.)
Existential Approach
True or False: Art therapists do not need to obtain client’s written consent to communicate with other health care providers for the purpose of collaborating on client treatment.
False. Art therapists have to obtain client’s written consent to communicate with other health care providers for the purpose of collaborating on client treatment (AATA ethical code 1.2.6)
Which pioneer thought "art as therapy?"
(Hint: they were trained as an artist, art educator, and a psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy. They also worked in therapeutic schools and directly applied ideas in educational settings).
Edith Kramer
What material can a client gesso to prepare the surface after they have stretched it?
Canvas
What assessment may be used to help elicit the child’s attitudes toward his or her family and the overall family dynamics?
Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD).
What approach has an emphasis on process (what is happening) over content (what is being talked about)?
(Hint: the approach focuses on individual's experience in the present moment. It is appropriate for people who are capable, active, and committed to realizing and achieving potential.)
Gestalt Approach
True or False: Art therapists do not need to seek professional consultation or assistance for their personal problems or conflicts that may impair or affect work performance or clinical judgment.
False. Art therapists must seek appropriate professional consultation or assistance for their personal problems or conflicts that may impair or affect work performance or clinical judgment (AATA ethical code 1.2.8).
Which pioneer coined the term "Art Brut" also known as Outsider Art or Raw Art?
(Hint: in 1945 they went to Switzerland and viewed art in a mental asylum as well as avoided traditional standards of beauty in favor of what they referred to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.)
Jean DuBuffet