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BAAT are recruiting: Membership & Events Assistant

12 September 2018
The British Association of Art Therapists is a small, dynamic and extremely busy professional body. We are looking for an administrative assistant with IT skills to join our small team.

New research on art therapy for military service members with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

19 July 2018
New research suggests distinctive associations between the artworks made in art therapy session by military service members and advanced neuroimaging findings...

Social Dialogue: Arts & social work

20 June 2018
This special issue on arts in social work may be of particular interest to art therapists using arts in community contexts...

Diane Bruce at Attachment & the Arts: Arts therapies in perinatal parent-infant mental health

08 June 2018
Diane Bruce will be presenting 'The long view: Attachment, trauma and intergenerational approach to arts therapies in perinatal parent-infant mental health' at the 2018 Attachment & the Arts conference on 5th October...

Dr Val Huet, Dr Neil Springham, Ioanna Xenophontes & Nicci Mills at Attachment & the Arts (2018): Power dynamics and boundary violation in art therapy

01 June 2018
Dr Val Huet & Dr Neil Springham present a grounded theory study on power dynamics and boundary violation in art therapy followed by views and responses from two service users, Ioanna Xenophontes & Nicci Mills...

Level 6 Diploma in Working with Children in Art Therapy 2019-2020

01 June 2018
BAAT is delighted to announce the start in January 2019 of the third cohort on the level 6 Diploma in Art Therapy with Children, written and designed by BAAT and accredited by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB).

Jayne McConkey, Dr Caryl Sibbett & Colin Simms at Attachment & the Arts: 'Sorry for your Troubles'

21 May 2018
Jayne McConkey, Dr Caryl Sibbett and Colin Simms present on transgenerational trauma in Northern Ireland at the Attachment & the Arts conference on 5th October 2018...

International Journal of Art Therapy: Inscape Volume 23, Issues 1-2, January-June 2018

21 May 2018
The latest IJAT:Inscape is about to go to press! This new double issue contains the following articles...

Through the eyes of the law: What is it about art that can harm people?

18 May 2018
In 2008, Art Therapist, Neil Springham published this poignant article in the International Journal of Art Therapy: Inscape. We are reminded of its continued relevance today as we reflect on twenty years of statutory regulation of the arts therapies in the UK and the continued need to protect the public from harmful or abusive practice...

Ami Woods and Learning Disability Service Users at Attachment & the Arts: Attachment, Trauma, Powerlessness & People with Learning Disabilities

18 May 2018
Ami Woods and Learning Disability Service Users will be presenting at this year's Attachment & the Arts conference on 5th October 2018...

Radio interview with BAAT CEO, Dr Val Huet: Art Therapy and Mental Health

18 May 2018
In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Week (May 14th - May 20th 2018) 'The Yasmeen Khan Show' on London's talkRADIO interviewed Dr Val Huet about art therapy and mental health...

Dr Lucy Johnstone & Amy Sanderson at Attachment & the Arts: The Power Threat Meaning Framework

11 May 2018
As Keynote Speaker at this year's Attachment & the Arts Conference, Dr Lucy Johnstone will introduce the main tenets of the Power Threat Meaning Framework and will reflect on possible implications for art therapy practice...

Art Therapists and their AHP colleagues highlighted on World of Work (WoW) careers TV

27 April 2018
BAAT Vice Chair, Nicki Power is interviewed on a new free-for-schools magazine show for teens to shine a spotlight on lesser known careers. The show was broadcast live to 500 secondary schools on 2nd May 2018 to showcase Allied Health Professionals careers and Mental Health...

Art, power, and the asylum: Adamson, healing, and the Collection

27 April 2018
Editor of The Lancet Psychiatry Niall Boyce is joined by David O'Flynn, Solomon Szekir-Papasavva, and Chloe Trainor to discuss this new essay on The Adamson Collection...

The Art Therapy New Practitioner Essay Prize 2018-2020

12 April 2018
This biennial Prize is awarded by the British Association of Art Therapists and Routledge. The aim of the competition is to recognise the valuable and sometimes innovative work and ideas of trainees and newly qualified practitioners and to encourage future academic authors.

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