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The film presents interviews with the art therapists and highlights the opportunities for collaboration within the schools’ treatment and educational teams. The benefits of art therapy are evident through recorded sessions and interviews with these school-based art therapists.In addition, there is a vignette about art therapy with youngsters in a state hospital classroom in a program profiled by youthful journalists on a local public television station. The film ends with a unique and long-running program organized by famed glassblowing pioneer Dale Chihuly with local officials that helps high school dropouts return to the classroom in the context of learning the craft. The many therapeutic benefits of the program are quite evident, and its location within the larger community offers an example of how artists can collaborate with teachers and social workers to help to rehabilitate at-risk adolescents.
In addition, there is a vignette about art therapy with youngsters in a state hospital classroom in a program profiled by youthful journalists on a local public television station. The film ends with a unique and long-running program organized by famed glassblowing pioneer Dale Chihuly with local officials that helps high school dropouts return to the classroom in the context of learning the craft. The many therapeutic benefits of the program are quite evident, and its location within the larger community offers an example of how artists can collaborate with teachers and social workers to help to rehabilitate at-risk adolescents.
This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc.
Length of video: 00:56:10
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-617-X
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-617-2
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.