Building a sustainable Art Therapy Program in Hong Kong

Session - Education & Supervision (ES): paper no. ES6067As the field of art therapy continues to mature and develop, it will also continue to migrate to parts of the world beyond the Western nations dominated by the United States and United Kingdom. When it arrives in each individual country, practitioners and educators will need to learn how to best introduce the profession, including offering sustainable models for training future art therapists. While the use of the arts in therapeutic contexts occurs throughout the world, the disciplined practice of art therapy is relatively rare in comparison to other helping service professions, such as psychology, nursing, social work, and counseling. Several art therapists have commented on the difficulty and ethics of standardizing art …postprin