Assessment in the creative arts therapies

This book addresses one of the most dynamic, complicated, and challenging areas in the field of creative arts therapies. It is the result of seven years of research into the complex question of how arts media can be adapted, structured, and implemented as assessment tools. By tackling the difficult problems of satisfactory assessment, the authors offer a scientist-practitioner model for creative arts professions not previously available. In each chapter devoted to one of the creative arts therapies, they illuminate the process of creating tools that use arts media, creating them under real-wor