Current Issue About the Cover Volume 25, Number 1, 2008 Editorial "Not Art Therapy": Revisiting the Therapeutic Studio in the Narrative of the Profession - Lynn Kapitan Articles Community-Based Art Studios in Europe and the United States: A Comparative Study - Randy M. Vick and Kathy Sexton-Radek Commentary on Community-Based Art Studios: Underlying Principles - Pat B. Allen What We Talk About When We Talk About Art Therapy: An Outsider’s Guide to Identity Crisis - Rob Lentz Assessing Portrait Drawings Created by Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder - Nicole Martin A Phenomenological Investigation of Art Therapy to Assist Transition to a Psychosocial Residential Setting - Theresa Van Lith Brief Report The Effects of Art Facilitation on the Social Functioning of People With Developmental Disability - Irene L. S. Got and Sheung-Tak Cheng Viewpoint Walking the Line Between Passion and Caution in Art Therapy: Using the Expressive Therapies Continuum to Avoid Therapist Errors - Lisa D. Hinz Commentaries Reviews BOOK REVIEWS Expressive Arts Therapy: Creative Process in Art and Life by the Appalachian Expressive Arts Collective, and Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics by Paolo J. Knill, Ellen G. Levine, and Stephen K. Levine - Reviewed by Randy M. Vick Grief Unseen: Healing Pregnancy Loss Through the Arts by Laura Seftel - Reviewed by Brooke D. Greene VIDEO REVIEW Bodyspeaks: Finding A Voice Through Art Therapy by David Strang, produced by Comer Rudd-Gates and Marilyn Hughes - Reviewed by Sondra Rosenberg

Art Therapy

Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association is the official journal of the American Art Therapy Association and the leading publication in the field of art therapy. The purpose of the Journal is to advance the understanding of how visual art functions in the treatment, education, development, and enrichment of people. A recognized academic publication for more than twenty years, Art Therapy provides a scholarly forum for diverse points of view on art therapy and strives to present a broad spectrum of ideas in therapy, practice, professional issues and research.

Editorial Review Board

Editorial Staff

Editor
Lynn Kapitan, Ph.D., ATR-BC
Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, WI

Associate Editor
Holly Feen-Calligan, Ph.D., ATR-BC
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Book Review Editor
Catherine Moon, MA, ATR-BC
The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL

Video Review Editor
Diana Milia, MA, AR-BC, LCAT
New York University, New York City, NC

Editorial Assistant
Marianne Oberbillig

Editorial Office
Mount Mary College
2900 N. Menomonee River Parkway
Milwaukee, WI 53222
Phone: 414-256-1215
FAX: 414-256-1205
Email: atj@mtmary.edu

Former Editors
Frances Kaplan, DA, ATR-BC
Frances Anderson, Ed.D, ATR-BC
Cathy Malchiodi, MA, ATR-BC
Gary Barlow
Linda Gantt

The American Art Therapy Association, Inc. (AATA) is an organization of professionals dedicated to the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life enhancing. AATA publishes Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association as part of its mission to serve its members, the academic community, and the general public by providing standards of professional competence and by developing and promoting knowledge in and of the field of art therapy.

This journal is abstracted in: Resources in Education (ERIC), Art Bibliographies Current Titles, Art Bibliographies Modern, PsycINFO, and Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL).

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