There are some web-based art therapy organizations I want to tell you about that are sources of some good information, but also somewhat deceptive in nature. They are Art Therapy Without Borders, the Art Therapy Alliance, and the International Art Therapy Organization. They are all linked to each other, so if you go to one site (for example, the one below), you can easily get to the others. They were all initiated and continue to be managed by the same two art therapists. The great aspect of them is that they have interesting information on them about the art therapy field and what is going on in art therapy around the world, and they do provide the means to link with art therapists from around the world. The caution I have about them is that they are highly self-promotional, which is problematic because the self-promotion is not transparent, so the sites are deceptive. For example, the Art Therapy Without Borders site promises to give you definitions of art therapy from various sources. If you click on the link to those promised definitions, you get 4 sources: two of them are from the above mentioned websites and two more are quotations from books by the same author ... who also happens to be one of the creators and managers of all three web sites! In other words, all four sources are from the same two people. That deception aside, they do provide the benefits I've listed, as well as a downloadable e-zine on international art therapy. So definitely check out these sites, but be a critical consumer while doing so.
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