Art Therapy News

Curb magazine: Hand-Crafted Healing: Art Therapists Create Change

Honorary Life Member Award Recipient: Dr. Bruce Moon, graduate program director, has received the Honorary Life Member Award from the American Art Therapy Association.

Art Therapist Among 10 Hot Jobs for 2007: CareerBuilder.com, one of the nation's leading recruitment resources in print and web media, has identified Art Therapist as one of the top 10 "hot jobs" for 2007. This bodes well for Mount Mary College graduates. Mount Mary's Master of Science degree in Art Therapy is the only fully accredited graduate degree in Wisconsin approved by the American Art Therapy Association.

Art Therapy Shows Promise with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Research efforts with combat Veterans who have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and children and adolescents who have been sexually abused are highlighted in the Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association (Volume 23, No. 4). According to journal editor, Lynn Kapitan, PhD, ATR-BC, the field of art therapy "is launching an effort to lay groundwork for clinical studies that identify art therapy treatment outcomes for posttraumatic stress disorder and related concerns."

NOTE: Lynn Kapitan is not only the AATA Journal Editor, she is also a professor of Art Therapy and Chairperson of the Art and Design Division at Mount Mary College.