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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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National Survey Assessing Perceived Multicultural Competence in Art Therapy Graduate Students
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Robb, Megan – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2014
Multicultural competence is essential to contemporary art therapy practice. Current education standards require that culturally sound theories and practices be taught along with self-awareness, but there is little research on the effects of such training in art therapy. The current study examined data from the Multicultural Awareness, Knowledge,…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Multicultural Education, Graduate Students
Art Enrichment: Evaluating a Collaboration between Head Start and a Graduate Art Therapy Program
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Klorer, P. Gussie; Robb, Megan – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2012
Head Start, a U.S. federally funded program, prepares children for school through early childhood intervention in social-emotional and cognitive arenas. This article describes program evaluation survey results from the past 5 years of an 18-year collaboration between a university graduate art therapy program and 8 Head Start centers. Graduate art…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Masters Programs, Graduate Students
The History of Art Therapy at the National Institutes of Health
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Robb, Megan – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2012
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Research Center is a government facility that has a long history of groundbreaking research. Art therapy research began at NIH in 1958 with Hanna Kwiatkowska, whose work contributed to the foundation of art therapy with families, and with Harriet Wadeson, who conducted psychodynamic art therapy…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Public Agencies, History, Research
Beyond the Orphanages: Art Therapy with Russian Children.
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Robb, Megan – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2002
Describes the evolution of the art therapy process at a U.S. six-week day camp for Russian children from orphanages. Art therapy helped address anxiety-provoking issues that the children faced. This paper explores cross-cultural issues, and the attachment disorder and PTSD symptoms that emerged, and demonstrates the importance of art as a healing…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Anxiety, Art Therapy, Attachment Behavior