ABSTRACT

How does the family art therapist understand the complexities of another’s cultural diversity? What are international family therapist’s perspectives on treatment? These questions and more are explored in Multicultural Family Art Therapy, a text that demonstrates how to practice psychotherapy within an ethnocultural and empathetic context. Each international author presents their clinical perspective and cultural family therapy narrative, thereby giving readers the structural framework they need to work successfully with clients with diverse ethnic backgrounds different from their own. 
A wide range of international contributors provide their perspectives on visual symbols and content from America, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Australia, Israel, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Trinidad, Central America, and Brazil. They also address a diversity of theoretical orientations, including attachment, solution-focused, narrative, parent-child, and brief art therapy, and write about issues such as indigenous populations, immigration, acculturation, identity formation, and cultural isolation. At the core of this new text is the realization that family art therapy should address not only the diversity of theory, but also the diversity of international practice.

part |21 pages

The United States

part |12 pages

Canada

part |38 pages

The United Kingdom

chapter |17 pages

Respect?

A personal account of practicing family art therapy from a solution-focused perspective in Britain

chapter |21 pages

Art therapy in UK schools

Engaging the family from a narrative perspective

part |18 pages

Ireland

part |15 pages

Australia

chapter |15 pages

Family art therapy

Dots, meaning and metaphor

part |18 pages

Israel

chapter |18 pages

Parent-child (dyadic) art psychotherapy and trauma

When the implicit becomes explicit

part |15 pages

Russia

chapter |15 pages

Russian family art therapy

New perspectives

part |11 pages

Singapore

part |15 pages

Taiwan

chapter |15 pages

Art therapy with a family focus

The use of family art therapy interventions with an immigrant Chinese adolescent

part |14 pages

Japan

chapter |14 pages

Brief art therapy with a young man

Japanese family art therapy

part |21 pages

Korea

part |19 pages

Trinidad

part |20 pages

El Salvador

chapter |20 pages

Identity formation and cultural isolation

An El Salvadoran family's therapeutic journey

part |15 pages

Brazil

chapter |15 pages

Family art therapy in Brazil

Diverse Brazilian ethnicity