Queering Our Education: A Call for LGBTQIA Guidelines

The purpose of this capstone thesis was to write a call-to-action manuscript that will be submitted for publication to the American Art Therapy Association Journal. The manuscript calls upon the American Art Therapy Association as the national organization of the profession to create LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual) guidelines for art therapy, including the importance of integrating LGBTQIA history in graduate school curricula. Reviewing recommendations from scholars in the counseling, psychology, and art therapy fields, as well as reviewing the LGBTQIA guidelines created for the counseling and psychology, this capstone also suggests ways in which LGBTQIA guidelines for art therapy that focus specifically on LGBTQIA culture and history can help to queer multicultural courses in graduate art therapy programs as well as assist professionals outside of the educational setting.M.A., Art Therapy and Counseling -- Drexel University, 201