I appreciate the intro to the therapeutic lens, but I am concerned about art instructors jumping into therapy without any training in psychology. I would never expect a PE teacher to do physical therapy on an injured student, and I am concerned about an untrained art teacher treating students as patients. I believe in art education and art therapy, and even introducing the students to the concepts of art therapy, but I have many reservations about co-mingling education with medical, psychological therapy. (Including parental consent, the constraints of the class size, the lack of medical training, and the appropriateness of a classroom setting for unregulated medical intervention.) I appreciate a licensed art therapist discussing this interesting topic, but I hope that art instructors are deeply thoughtful about using therapy in the classroom.
Thank you for sharing your concerns - you make excellent points! 👍🏼 This video is a sample from one of our PRO Packs. The first video of the PRO Pack gives a similar disclaimer. You can check out the PRO Pack in more detail here > theartofeducation.edu/packs/art-therapy-basics/
I appreciate the intro to the therapeutic lens, but I am concerned about art instructors jumping into therapy without any training in psychology. I would never expect a PE teacher to do physical therapy on an injured student, and I am concerned about an untrained art teacher treating students as patients.
I believe in art education and art therapy, and even introducing the students to the concepts of art therapy, but I have many reservations about co-mingling education with medical, psychological therapy. (Including parental consent, the constraints of the class size, the lack of medical training, and the appropriateness of a classroom setting for unregulated medical intervention.)
I appreciate a licensed art therapist discussing this interesting topic, but I hope that art instructors are deeply thoughtful about using therapy in the classroom.
Thank you for sharing your concerns - you make excellent points! 👍🏼 This video is a sample from one of our PRO Packs. The first video of the PRO Pack gives a similar disclaimer. You can check out the PRO Pack in more detail here > theartofeducation.edu/packs/art-therapy-basics/
@@theartofed I'm so glad that you have considered these concerns for the classroom teacher :) and I look forward to more AofE content!