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This film shows Dr. Judy Rubin, art therapist, facilitating two different family art therapy assessment sessions with parents and school-aged children.The first session is a black and white video with color stills of the images themselves, and the family members make individual scribbles, develop them further and use storytelling when sharing with each other. They then represent the family individually and discuss their respective images. Finally, they engage in a joint drawing, followed by discussion about the process and the product.
The second family session is in color and family members use model magic clay and verbal processing, then develop the activity further by bringing their sculptures to a large paper, moving them silently around the surface, followed by drawing on the same paper. Each step of art making is followed by discussion about the images and the process. Dr. Rubin explains the assessments to the families and the use of materials, demonstrating how and why art is being used for evaluation. Family dynamics and relationships are illuminated within the context of treatment planning and goals.
Families in both sessions demonstrated their uniqueness through their processes of art making as well as through their descriptions of their lives, thus allowing the viewer to see art therapy family assessments in action.
The first session is a black and white video with color stills of the images themselves, and the family members make individual scribbles, develop them further and use storytelling when sharing with each other. They then represent the family individually and discuss their respective images. Finally, they engage in a joint drawing, followed by discussion about the process and the product.
The second family session is in color and family members use model magic clay and verbal processing, then develop the activity further by bringing their sculptures to a large paper, moving them silently around the surface, followed by drawing on the same paper. Each step of art making is followed by discussion about the images and the process. Dr. Rubin explains the assessments to the families and the use of materials, demonstrating how and why art is being used for evaluation. Family dynamics and relationships are illuminated within the context of treatment planning and goals.
Families in both sessions demonstrated their uniqueness through their processes of art making as well as through their descriptions of their lives, thus allowing the viewer to see art therapy family assessments in action.
This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc.
Length of video: 1:31:58
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-639-0
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-639-4
Judith Rubin, a pioneer in the field of art therapy, is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She is a Registered, Board-Certified Art Therapist and a Licensed Psychologist. Dr. Rubin is the author of five books, including: Child Art Therapy, The Art of Art Therapy, and Art Therapy: An Introduction. She was the "Art Lady" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in the 1960s.
A past President and Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, Dr. Rubin is retired from full-time clinical practice, and is devoting her energies to creating and disseminating films on the arts in therapy through a nonprofit organization, Expressive Media, Inc. Her other films include Beyond Words: Art Therapy with Older Adults (2004), We'll Show You What We're Gonna Do! (art with blind children, 1971), Children & the Arts (all of the arts with children, 1973), and The Green Creature Within (group art-drama therapy with adolescents, 1984). More about Judith Rubin's films and the organization can be found at http://www.expressivemedia.org.