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Judith Rubin
Psychoanalytic Art Therapist .....ANSWER.....Open art assessment.
Describes "Framework for Freedom" as a balance between
structure and looseness.
Arthur Robbins .....ANSWER.....Pratt. Uses object relations as a
framework for understanding his clients verbal and non-verbal
communication. He developed psychoaesthetics - which reflects
ones make up
Four reasons art therapy is hard to define .....ANSWER.....1.
Practiced with a wide variety of populations
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2. The experiential nature of art
3. The scope is broader than the label
4. Disagreements between art therapists as to how to define art
therapy
What does it mean that art therapy is dynamic?
.....ANSWER.....You and client must participate through art
making to have first hand experience
What does drawing from within mean?
.....ANSWER.....Emphasizes inner experience (therapist=help client
discover meaning of their art, Client= process of creating
+finding story and meaning)
Process vs product debate .....ANSWER.....The process of creating
the art is life enhancing vs the product of the art helps
communicate emotions, issues, and conflicts
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Four reasons art therapists rarely interpret clients art
.....ANSWER.....1. Danger of imposing their own beliefs
2. Change meaning overtime
3. Jumping to conclusions
4. Art is in the eye of the beholder
What is a spacial matrix? .....ANSWER.....Verbalization is linear
whereas art is spatial
Why art therapy works .....ANSWER.....Visual thinking
Expressing things words cannot
Sensory experience
Emotional release
Ability to create tangible product
Creates relationships
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Emil Kraepelin and Karl Jaspers .....ANSWER.....Drawings by
patients could be used as
aids in understanding psychopathology
Freud .....ANSWER.....Theories of the unconscious, images
presented in dreams
Jung .....ANSWER.....Collective unconscious, archetypes.
Paul Max Simon .....ANSWER.....Father of art and psychiatry-
influenced the diagnostic uses of drawing
Hanz Prinzhorn .....ANSWER.....Believed in art as self expression
and access to
unconscious, but not for clinical analysis. Also believe that art is a
natural way to achieve psychological balance
Fritz Mor .....ANSWER.....Described the first drawing tests for
psychological purposes
ATR-BC EXAM AND STUDY GUIDE NEWEST 2025 TEST
BANK| COMPLETE 950 REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
ALREADY GRADED A+| ATR BC EXAM PREP 2025
(BRAND NEW!!)
Judith Rubin
Psychoanalytic Art Therapist .....ANSWER.....Open art assessment.
Describes "Framework for Freedom" as a balance between
structure and looseness.
Arthur Robbins .....ANSWER.....Pratt. Uses object relations as a
framework for understanding his clients verbal and non-verbal
communication. He developed psychoaesthetics - which reflects
ones make up
Four reasons art therapy is hard to define .....ANSWER.....1.
Practiced with a wide variety of populations
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2. The experiential nature of art
3. The scope is broader than the label
4. Disagreements between art therapists as to how to define art
therapy
What does it mean that art therapy is dynamic?
.....ANSWER.....You and client must participate through art
making to have first hand experience
What does drawing from within mean?
.....ANSWER.....Emphasizes inner experience (therapist=help client
discover meaning of their art, Client= process of creating
+finding story and meaning)
Process vs product debate .....ANSWER.....The process of creating
the art is life enhancing vs the product of the art helps
communicate emotions, issues, and conflicts
,Page 3 of 274
Four reasons art therapists rarely interpret clients art
.....ANSWER.....1. Danger of imposing their own beliefs
2. Change meaning overtime
3. Jumping to conclusions
4. Art is in the eye of the beholder
What is a spacial matrix? .....ANSWER.....Verbalization is linear
whereas art is spatial
Why art therapy works .....ANSWER.....Visual thinking
Expressing things words cannot
Sensory experience
Emotional release
Ability to create tangible product
Creates relationships
, Page 4 of 274
Emil Kraepelin and Karl Jaspers .....ANSWER.....Drawings by
patients could be used as
aids in understanding psychopathology
Freud .....ANSWER.....Theories of the unconscious, images
presented in dreams
Jung .....ANSWER.....Collective unconscious, archetypes.
Paul Max Simon .....ANSWER.....Father of art and psychiatry-
influenced the diagnostic uses of drawing
Hanz Prinzhorn .....ANSWER.....Believed in art as self expression
and access to
unconscious, but not for clinical analysis. Also believe that art is a
natural way to achieve psychological balance
Fritz Mor .....ANSWER.....Described the first drawing tests for
psychological purposes
