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Who are You Drawn To?
As a child I really loved 鈥淏unny Rabbit鈥, the silent bunny on Captain Kangaroo. I suppose that could have predicted my introverted personality. I cringe when my youngest grandson seems spellbound by 鈥淪pongeBob鈥 鈥 I can only hope that鈥檚 not a predictor of anything.
Similarly, there are art therapists and theoretical stances that I鈥檓 drawn to, and some that I鈥檓 not. I would never tell a student who to resonate with. And that, to me, is a treasure within Southwestern鈥檚 Art Therapy/Counseling program. We consider art therapy to be our primary theoretical foundation, and students have the freedom to explore and choose how they want to work as art therapists. Our eclectic faculty members help with that because they practice and think about art therapy in many different ways. Last week students could have learned art therapy from a Jungian, an Adlerian, a person-centered therapist, a therapist with strong psychodrama training, a somatic-based based art therapist, and someone who loves DBT.
We know that given population, place and client needs, we鈥檒l need to be flexible in how we approach our therapeutic work. We may resonate with one way of being an art therapist yet need to be somewhat fluid at times.
I appreciate that I used to be drawn to 鈥淏unny Rabbit鈥. And right now, it鈥檚 incredibly satisfying to resonate with Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons!
Deborah Schroder, M.S., ATR-BC, LPAT 听
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